The usefulness of models and simulators for training practical bovine artificial insemination skills

Heitor Azuaga Filho; Bruno Colaço; Rita Payan-Carreira

doi:10.3389/fvets.2023.1240978

The usefulness of models and simulators for training practical bovine artificial insemination skills

Front Vet Sci. 2023 Aug 30:10:1240978. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1240978. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Heitor Azuaga Filho^{1

2}, Bruno Colaço^{2

3}, Rita Payan-Carreira⁴

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso (IFMT), Campus Professor Olegário Baldo, Cáceres, Brazil.
² Veterinary and Animal Research Centre (CECAV), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.
³ Associate Laboratory for Animal and Veterinary Sciences (AL4AnimalS), and Department of Zootechnics, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.
⁴ Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), and Department of Veterinary Medicine, Science and Technology School University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.

No abstract available

Keywords: AI practice; AI training; assessment; bovine; reproduction; simulators' validity.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the projects UIDP/00772/2020 (CECAV) and LA/P/0059/2020 (AL4AnimalS) and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).