VTMED 6623

VTMED 6623

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

This clinical rotation embedded in SPCA of Tompkins County exposes students to the principles and practice of veterinary medicine in a real animal shelter setting. While students will provide direct veterinary medical care to individual shelter animals, students will also spend time learning and applying population health principles. These principles include infectious disease diagnosis, treatment, and management; shelter wellness and protocol-based medicine; shelter anesthesia, high-quality, high-volume spay-neuter and dentistry; shelter animal behavioral assessment, pharmaceuticals and modification, low-stress animal handling, and population and capacity planning. Cases vary with season and shelter intake. The daily schedule includes topic-based online modules, clinical work, and topic rounds. Students will also be expected to complete several on-line webinars and assignments to round out their learning. Although spay/neuter is certainly part of shelter medicine and will be part of this rotation, this is NOT a spay/neuter intensive rotation; caseload will depend on the needs of the shelter(s). Week-end duty is optional and as-needed.

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: fourth-year veterinary students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Highly recommended prerequisite: VTMED 6425.

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Syllabi:
  •   Eight Week - Clinic First. 

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  • 11924 VTMED 6623   CLN 301

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - Mar 24, 2024
    • Cohen, A

      DeTar, L

      Henry, M

      Staffeld, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi:
  •   Eight Week - Clinic Second. 

  • 2 Credits S/U NoAud

  • 12042 VTMED 6623   CLN 304

    • TBA
    • Mar 25 - May 19, 2024
    • Cohen, A

      DeTar, L

      Henry, M

      Staffeld, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person