Practicum: 40 hours/week for 3 weeks
On-campus: 1 week
Students will take part in a variety of veterinary facility work experiences.
Methods of evaluation may include written assignments, clinic evaluations, practical (essential skills) evaluations, case studies and online blog or discussion board posts.
Professionalism in the workplace
- Ethics
- Standard operating procedures
- Health and safety
Nursing procedures in veterinary species
- Restraint and physical examination
- Medication administration
- Husbandry
- Nursing and grooming
Veterinary career pathways
- Emergency medicine
- Specialty practice (small animal, exotics, equine and farm)
- Shelter medicine
- Laboratory animal & research
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate professional work behaviours such as punctuality, effective communication and a strong work ethic;
- follow standard operating procedures;
- apply required health and safety protocols to the workplace;
- safely perform procedures such as patient restraint and physical examinations;
- administer medications according to veterinarian instructions;
- perform husbandry and nursing procedures such as cleaning animal housing, grooming, feeding, bandaging and patient monitoring, in different species;
- describe the variety of career pathways available to graduate veterinary technologists.
Assessment will be in accordance with the 51Ç鱨վ Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester.
This course will use a Mastery-based assessment. Students will receive a Mastery ("MAS") grade based on attendance of a minimum of 70 practicum hours, submission of all practicum assignments and satisfactory evaluations of applicable VTEC skills competencies.
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