For specific organ systems, expand knowledge and skills in clinical safe practices, performing diagnostics, therapeutic procedures, surgical skills, and physical examination techniques, interpreting radiographs/ultrasound, setting up and using an anesthetic system, creating medical plans, administering medications, applying bandages, splints, nerve blocks, and using medical records systems.
Athena Title
Clinical Skills in Vet Med IIa
Pre or Corequisite
Enrollment in the second year of the doctor of veterinary medicine curriculum.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be able to appropriately integrate clinical safe practices as skills grow.
Students will be able to appropriately integrate good patient handling practices as skills grow.
Students will be able to properly use a microscope for diagnostic requirements/testing.
Students will be able to properly obtain patient samples as they expand testing options coordinating with the system.
Students will be able to properly assess radiographs and perform Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) ultrasound (abdominal).
Students will be able to properly perform physical examination techniques in the abnormal patient.
Students will be able to properly set up an anesthetic circuit and set up a patient on the system understanding how to monitor the patient.
Students will be able to properly intubate a patient.
Students will be able to perform surgical skills from suturing to methods for performing procedures coordinating with systems.
Students will be able to perform proper placement of IV catheter, and establishment and maintenance of fluid therapy.
Students will be able to properly perform standard medical mathematics when creating diagnostic and therapeutic plans.
Students will be able to properly administer medication as appropriate for organ system.
Students will be able to properly apply and maintain bandaging/splints/supportive wraps.
Students will be able to properly perform nerve blocks for diagnostic and therapeutic reasons.
Students will be able to use basic features of medical records software.
Topical Outline
Microscope usage for diagnostic procedures: Urinalysis in the abnormal patient, vaginal cytology, artificial intelligence tools for cytologic examination
Obtaining and handling biological samples coordinated with systems
Physical exam: in parallel with organ systems courses with emphasis on abnormalities, including models and live animals
Anesthesia: How to set up and proceed with a patient, including Intubation/establishment/maintenance
Interpreting radiographic images (in parallel with organ systems courses)
IV catheter placement using models
Fluid therapy: using models and learning pumps and medical math involved
Administering medications (in parallel with organ systems courses)
Suturing
Continued practice of square knot, surgeon’s knot, buried knot, simple interrupted suture pattern, simple continuous suture pattern, circumferential knot, modified miller’s knot, modified transfixation knot,
Addition of ford interlocking pattern, intradermal pattern, mattress sutures.
Creation of a formal Diagnostic/Therapeutic plan/orders with all elements of delivery/medical mathematics/intervals
Introduction to the use of medical records software
