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2015-2016 University Catalog 
    
2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

VCS 87202 - Small Animal Surgery - General II


Credit Hours: 3.00. Students will be expected to assume greater responsibility for evaluation, treatment, and care of patients while developing greater knowledge, clinical judgment, and diagnostic capabilities that enable them to manage more complex cases. Students will learn from clinical case material, reviewing topics, and reading the surgical literature and will be given more responsibility for case management. Students will perform elective neutering procedures as the primary surgeon and assist in other surgical procedures. Students will participate in surgery rounds at least once each day, with every student researching and leading case discussions, demonstrating more initiative and independence. Each student will make a formal case or topic presentation to other students and faculty at least once during the course. Total clinic hours 129. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.