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This half-block clinical rotation is designed to expose interested students to the field of Laboratory Animal Medicine. The rotation can be divided into 2 general sections: 1) clinical service involving the diagnosis and treatment of colony animals; 2) didactic training in the biology and medicine of traditional laboratory animal species. In addition to rodents we maintain dogs, cats, swine, cattle, horses, reptiles, fish and birds.
Goal/Rationale of the Course
Enrolled students typically fall into two categories. 1. Students who are considering a possible career in laboratory animal medicine. 2. Students who have in interest in pocket pets, etc. who want to gain more clinical exposure with these species. With these two student needs in mind the clinical rotation should in the end allow a student to make a final determination on a career choice of laboratory animal medicine (yea or nay), as well as exposing students to clinical cases with pocket pets and specific training via wet labs with various clinical and surgical procedures on specific species.
During this two week rotation, the student will develop a basic understanding of the following Procedures as they occur in slaughter and processing federal establishments
1. Ante Mortem Inspection
2. Humane Handling
3. Post-Mortem Inspection
4. Inspection methodology
5. Sanitation and sampling (pthogen and chemistry testing as well as pathology submission)
6. Plant maangemnt communication
7. Wellness, health and safety in the plant
8. Recalls
9. Professionalism
The student will be provided with a realistic equine ambulatory medicine environment. Student will work all hours the ambulatory veterinarian works, and ride around in the truck. Student will assist with all treatments, procedures, diagnostics that are required. Students will eagerly participate in discussions regarding cases and develop their own diagnostic and treatment plans.
The student will be immersed directly into our culture and with our clients & patients at Animal Hospital of Shawnee Hills. He/she will receive hands-on, real-world training. Technical skills and interpersonal skills will be put to the test in order for students to learn and gain confidence moving forward in their careers as DVMs. The student will be directly supervised by one of our 3 DVMs. Under stupervision, the student will gain experience in the following areas:
- Gathering & interpreting patient history
- Performing physical exams
- Wellness, ill & emergency patient management
- Short term & Long-term medical case management
- Hands-on use of diagnistic tools
- Guided interpretation of results
- Surigcal preparationg/monitoring & scrub into surgery
- Proper communcation through follow-up calls with clients
- Learn what it means to practice big city medicine in a small town atmosphere
For 50 years, SICSA Pet Adoption and Wellness Center has been a well-respected, mission-driven animal welfare organization in the Dayton area. Our mission is to promote the welfare and adoption of companion animals, and to nurture loving, lifelong relationships between animals and people. To support our mission, we offer numerous animal-centered programs and services for families and children, including adoption, providing resources for pet owners in need to help them keep their pets in their homes, community outreach, humane education, and veterinary services.
Our Veterinary Services department offers affordable veterinary care to our community to help those in need. Our services include high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter (HQHVSN) services, wellness services onsite and offsite through our Community Veterinary Care program, and veterinary services for the adoptable animals in our care. We have a well-appointed veterinary clinic with state-of-the-art equipment and three to four experienced, highly skilled veterinarians. Each year we perform over 6,000 spay/neuter surgeries, see over 2,000 animals for wellness exams, and care for over 2,000 adoptable animals.
Students who choose our location for a senior-year rotation can expect to gain experience, training, and support in:
1. Learning HQHVSN techniques by performing surgery on our adoptable animals.
2. Practice technical skills, including surgical induction and preparation, medication administration, phlebotomy, basic laboratory techniques, and radiology.
3. Grow their client care and case management skills by seeing wellness appointments to provide preventative care and management of various acute and chronic medical conditions.
4. Principles and practice of shelter medicine, including population health management, individual patient care, infectious disease management, animal husbandry, and shelter operations.
We are a fast-paced, energetic group, and we are drawn together by our common belief and support of our mission and our SICSA family. A student who will be successful in this rotation will be someone with a growth mindset and is enthusiastic about learning, patient care, and teamwork.
Opportunity to participate in medical and surgical cases including preventative medicine visits, simple and complicated medical problems and workups, preforming basic surgical procedures such as OHE and neuters, participating with veterinarians on more advanced surgeries, performiing dental propylactic cleaning and radiographs and participating in extractions
Throughout the duration of the candidates experience at Healthy Pets, we plan on providing them exposure to the fast paced environment of the small animal practice field. We plan on establishing goals to include experience in exam rooms with dogs, cats, pocket pets, reptiles and birds, as well as a multitude of surgical procedures. The candidate will be expected to participate in communicating effectively with our clients, devising a medication protocol for our patients, scrubbing in for surgical procedures, and discussing the financial aspects, business overhead and the transaction reports of our hospital.
Students performing elective rotations with Canine Companions for Independence will have the opportunity to assist in a broad numbers of tasks, including: phycial exams, development of treatment plans, administering medical care, imaging studies, dentistry and surgery. In addition, they will have the opportunity to learn about reproduction, including timing of estrous cycles, facilitating dog breedings, semen evaluation and storage, pregnancy detection and assistance with whelping and neonatal puppy care.
The student would spend part of the time riding with a large animal veterinarian and part of the time in the small animal hospital. Students would be exposed to dairy production medicine on small (<50 cow) Amish diaries and organic diaries to large (>1500 cow) family run dairies. Clients also include pleasure horses, families, goats and few swine. The small animal hospital caters to dogs and cats. Students would be exposed to dental radiology, digital radiology, and general small animal practice as well as surgery. Surgeries range from spats and Reuters to amputation, enucleation, and abdominal exploration.
BVSC is a busy referral private practice and offers clinical exposure to the diagnosis and treatment of surgical and medical diseases in the small animal patient. We have a strong focus in oncology with a specialist surgical oncologist and specialist radiation oncologist. During this rotation, the student will practice history taking, physical and physical examinations, and establish competence in the care, diagnosis and treatment of small animal diseases. Students will have hands-on experience while assisting in surgery and during some medical procedures. Specialities: Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Internal Medicine, Radiation Therapy, Ophtalmology, Dentistry.