OVRS is a VECCS Level 1 certified referral hospital that has a large and diverse caseload to support teaching with many opportunities to hone your technical skills. Under the supervision of the Critical Care Specialist responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following: 

1. Assisting the ICU technicians with in-hospital patient care
2. Assisting with outpatient recheck appointments and referral patients
3. Performing history taking and obtaining vitals
4. Record physical examination findings and initial diagnostic results on patient visit summary
5. Present case summary to criticalist on staff and go into the exam room with the criticalist to discuss diagnostic and treatment plans with client
6. Assisting with diagnostics/anesthesia/minor procedures (vascular assess, central line placement, feeding tube placement (naso-gastric tubes, Esophagostomy tubes, etc.)
7. Assist in making treatment sheets for in-hospital ICU patients
8. Assist with patient discharges from hospital 
9. In additional to the above responsibilities, veterinary students would be expected to perform the following: 
    a. Perform physical exam on assigned patients and record daily patient SOAP
    b. Record physical examination data, record findings on referring veterinarian radiographs/diagnostics, list problems and differentials or diagnosis if applicable,              diagnostic plan, and therapeutic plan prior to presenting case
    c. Patient discharges from hospital –after client has check-out with reception staff, student would go over discharge instructions with client, give client personal belongings, medications and referral radiographs