Insights
The McEachran Institute’s “Insights” page is a growing collection of essays and reflections that explore the changing landscape of ecosystem health, education, and professional accountability. Originally developed through a virtual dialogue on the future of veterinary medicine, these pieces offer diverse perspectives and bold ideas for navigating the complex challenges of our time.
We invite you to read, reflect, and engage in the ongoing conversation.
Clinical ecology
Exploring a systems-based approach to health that bridges species, environments, and society.
Context, connections, and care
A reflective call for animal health professionals to embrace context, interconnection, and curiosity as foundations for meaningful, ecosystem-based care.
Adaptability as an essential skill
Advocating for adaptability as a core competency in veterinary education to prepare professionals for evolving challenges in animal health.
Social Accountability & Veterinary Medical Education
Exploring how veterinary education can embrace social accountability to better align with community and global health needs.
Transforming wildlife health professionals
Calls for reimagining wildlife health education to better equip professionals for the complex ecological and ethical challenges of our time
Too fast and too slow: Being a student in a “One Welfare” world
Explores the tension students face navigating urgency and reflection in a world increasingly shaped by the principles of One Welfare.
The virtues of general multi-species training
Makes the case for broad, multi-species veterinary training as essential preparation for a future of complex, interrelated health challenges
Social accountability & veterinary medical education
Argues that veterinary education must embrace social accountability to better serve the evolving needs of society, animals, and the environment
Less bad practices in education
Explores how veterinary education can shift from minimizing harm to actively fostering positive, transformative learning environments
Critical skills for the next age
Argues for cultivating systems thinking, collaboration, and ethical awareness as essential skills for navigating the future of animal health
Beyond diversity
Challenges veterinary education to move beyond surface-level diversity and embrace deeper inclusion, equity, and systemic change
Animal health in the face of unprecedented global change
Explores how animal health professionals can respond to accelerating global change by embracing systems thinking, equity, and shared purpose
An open letter to veterinary students
An invitation for veterinary students to embrace uncertainty, humility, and collaboration as they shape the future of animal and planetary health.
Accreditation and licensing
A provocative reflection on how current accreditation and licensing systems may hinder rather than help veterinary professionals adapt to a rapidly changing world