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VCS 86003 - Small Animal After-Hours Care & ICU Rotation


Credit Hours: 3.00.  This course is designed to provide experience in the principles of intensive medical care and management of hospitalized small animal cases. This course will provide learning opportunities for students to practice skills and to gain experience assessing and working with hospitalized patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital wards during after-hours shifts (including evenings, overnights, and weekends dependent upon student numbers) while working with attending clinician(s) and nursing staff. As emergency caseload and ICU populations are unscheduled and their timing is unpredictable there may be both in-hospital shifts as well as times that students are on call during this rotation. (129 clinical hours). Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.Credits: 3.00



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