VCS 891 - CS Veterinary Medicine Elective

Credits: .5-3

Special topics for veterinary students in the disciplines offered by the department. Topics include:

Beef Production Medicine: The role of the veterinarian in livestock production units, including interactions with producers, nutritionists, investors and others in decision analysis. Emphasis is on the professional services that veterinarians provide to beef production systems.

Emergency Medicine: Presentations of cases in the ICU or cases that were recently seen on emergency. Current literature that is relevant to the case will be discussed.

Advanced Exotic Pet Medicine: Advanced study of the diseases, medicine, and captive management of non-traditional species including companion birds, reptiles, rabbits, ferrets, and rodents.

The Basics of Bovine Theriogenology: This class is designed to provide students enrolled in the veterinary curriculum a very practical knowledge base regarding bovine reproduction.

Equine Medicine: This course is designed to be complementary to CS 710. The material presented in this class will focus on diagnostic procedures and case presentations that will not be covered in the core curriculum.

The Learning Curve of Equine Practice: Covers various aspects of equine practice, not usually covered in traditional didactic lectures, including: equine husbandry, communication issues and insurance, horse colors, genetics, and genetic related diseases, aspects of equine practice and practice management, drug and medication rules for performance horses, and preventative medicine.

Pain Management: Discussion of the mechanisms of pain, certain pain syndromes, and the drugs and techniques available to provide analgesia.

Surgical Skills: Manual surgical skills will be taught using surgical models and cadaver tissues. Students will be taught the following skills and techniques: instrument handling, speed and efficiency, hand ties, ligature under tension, suture patterns, closure under tension, anastomosis and enterotomy technique and excision of circular lesions.

Advanced Concepts in Veterinary Clinical Anesthesia: The lectures will be divided among topics to enhance student preparation for practical clinical application of anesthetic principles in both small and large animal environments. Topics: anesthetic implications for certain disease states, management of intraoperative complications, and special topics in large animal anesthesia.

Veterinary Management of Sheep and Goats: Topic content is delivered both as online seminars via KSOL and case-based discussions and problem solving exercises in the classroom on herd management, preventive health care, nutrition, medicine, diseases, reproduction, and surgery of sheep and goats.

Veterinary Ultrasonography: Topic content will be delivered both as online seminars via KSOL and case-based discussions. The physics, basic principles of use, and common artifacts of ultrasound will be covered as it relates to veterinary diagnostic imaging. Ultrasound imaging of the thorax (non-cardiac), abdomen, musculoskeletal system, and other areas (eye, thyroid/parathyroid) will be covered, predominantly in small animals. The course will cover both normal and pathologic ultrasound findings.

Applied Small Animal Behavior: Introduction to the commonly encountered canine and feline behavior topics in veterinary medicine.  Students will learn how to address these behavioral concerns through behavior modification, desensitization, counter conditioning, and psychopharmacology.  An additional goal of the course is to discuss practices that reduce fear in these patients during visits to their veterinarian.

Note:
Lecture or combination lecture with lab.

Requisites:
Prerequisite: 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year students in Veterinary Medicine.

Typically Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer

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