Veterinary Nursing and Technology

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New addition:

Guidelines for implementing a low-cost volunteer desexing skills training program for veterinary and veterinary technology students

University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

According to Jennifer Wells, DVM, Director, Veterinary Technology Program, in an interview in May 2009 and confirmed through personal communication (2009-05-13), they no longer will purchase purpose-bread animals for educational use. Instead, they will be work with a local animal shelter to provide the hands-on experience needed by the students. The college was previously known as Raymond Walters College.

Dental model for training veterinary and veterinary nursing students

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This is a being used at the Royal Veterinary College …to facilitate the teaching, learning and assessment of basic dental skills for veterinary nursing and veterinary medicine students.

An evaluation of it was reported by Lumbis et al 2012.

The following includes literature cited above or which is relevant to the issue of training in veterinary nursing and technology. The titles are linked either to a publicly available copy of the document or to a digital object identifier. If there are illustrations which may be publicly viewable, these are also linked, but there is no guarantee that they would be viewable across all platforms.

Gates, M. Carolyn; Littlewood, Katherine E.; Kongara, Kavitha; Odom, Thomas F. and Sawicki, Robert K. 2020 Guidelines for implementing a low-cost volunteer desexing skills training program for veterinary and veterinary technology students Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 47(1):27-38

At the Massey University School of Veterinary Science, we recently established an innovative extracurricular volunteer program designed to have students teaching other students how to perform different elements of desexing procedures as they progress through their degree.

Lumbis, Rachel H.; Gregory, Susan P. and Baillie, Sarah 2012 Evaluation of a dental model for training veterinary students Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 39(2):128-135

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All students identified a model as a potentially valuable learning tool to supplement existing teaching methods and facilitate the acquisition of small-animal dentistry skills. The dental model has the potential to equip students with useful, practical skills in a safe and risk-free environment.

Updated 2023-12-19