VTMED 5606

Anesthesiology Service

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Designed to provide clinical experience in the use of anesthetics in small companion animals, horses, and some farm animals.  Students participate in selecting suitable anesthetic techniques for patients in the Cornell University Hospital for Animals and then implement those techniques under the supervision of faculty and residents.  The goal is for students to learn the skills and thDesigned to provide clinical experience in the use of anesthetics in small companion animals, horses, and some farm animals. Students planning to enter equine, production, or mixed animal practice who are taking their second anesthesia rotation can choose to spend this rotation exclusively in the Equine and Nemo Farm Animal Hospitals if desired. Students participate in selecting suitable anesthetic techniques for patients in the Cornell University Hospital for Animals and then implement those techniques under the supervision of faculty, residents, and technicians and residents. The goal is for students to learn the skills and thought processes necessary to perform safe anesthesia in a modern veterinary practice. ought processes necessary to perform safe anesthesia in a modern veterinary practice.

When Offered Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: third- and fourth-year veterinary students.

Satisfies Requirement Required component of Clinical Rotations (Foundation Course VI).

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