Course Description
Provides students with clinical experience admitting, diagnosing, and managing large animal emergency and critical care cases in a referral hospital setting. Students will be included in topic and case rounds and case work-up and treatment alongside clinical-year veterinary students, interns, and residents.
Athena Title
LA ECC Experience
Non-Traditional Format
Lab/clinical experience (15 6-hour hospital shifts).
Pre or Corequisite
LAMS 3400
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Student Learning Outcomes
- By the end of the course, students will be able to perform a triage exam on at least two large animal species.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to perform a complete physical exam on at least two large animal species.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to perform point of care bloodwork—PCV, TS, lactate, glucose.
- By the end of the course, students will know which treatments need to be performed on a patient at any time based on an online treatment sheet provided.
- By the end of the course, students will know how to access bloodwork and imaging results in the online medical record system based on an example.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to appropriately place routine standing wraps on a horse.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to appropriately put a halter on a horse.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to differentiate hay types.
Topical Outline
- - Attend topic rounds and case rounds
- - Assist with inpatient case treatments and monitoring
- - Assist with admission, diagnosis, and treatment of any emergencies
- - Work on a skills checklist as time and opportunity allows
