Description:
Down-to-earth and intensely practical, this book and video package provides step-by-step guidance on the essential clinical skills required by veterinary students before they face clinical situations encountered in the real world of the busy veterinary professional. - Contains step by step illustrations and photographs, complemented by videos of clinical procedures which can be viewed on your desktop, smartphone or tablet. - Covers the essential key skills that veterinary students need to know. - Details a whole range of techniques, from surgical, anaesthesia and laboratory through to everyday essential and diagnostic skills, in both farm and companion animals. - Describes in-depth the use of simulators in learning key skills. - Provides advice on preparing for OSCEs and practical exams. This book is the go-to manual for an essential grounding in key veterinary clinical skills for all students and educators of veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Introduction
Background
1. Developing Veterinary Clinical Skills: The Pedagogy
2. The Modern Outcome-based Curriculum and the Role of the Clinical Skills Laboratory
3. The Clinical Skills Centre Models Relevant to Location
Section 2: Surgical Theatre Skills
Introduction
4. Theatre Practice
5. Surgical Instruments
6. The Fundamentals of Suturing
Section 3: Anaesthesia
Introduction
7. The Anaesthetic Machine
8. Breathing Systems, Intubation and Monitoring
Section 4: Principles of Good Practice in the Laboratory
Background
9. Laboratory Skills and Sample Collection
10. Using a Microscope and Preparing Samples
11. Urine and Faecal Analysis
Section 5: General Clinical Skills
Background
12. Physical Examination, Fluid Therapy, Tube and Drain Management
13. Principles of Small Animal Bandaging
14. Pharmacy
Section 6: Patient Handling and Diagnostics
Background
15. General Principles of Animal Handling
16. Diagnostic Imaging
17. Equine Radiography – Example Tarsus
Section 7: Large Animal Skills
Background
18. Udder Health
19. Equine Procedures
20. Equine Foot Related Skills: Example Shoe Removal
Section 8: Assessment of Clinical Skills
Background
21. Practical Assessments – Assessments in a Simulated Environment
22. Objectively Structured Clinical Examinations – the Practicalities
Section 9: Moving Forward
Background
23. ‘Mind the Gap’ – the Development, Validation and Evaluation of a Veterinary Clinical Skills Model
24. Simulators in Veterinary Clinical Skills Education: Background and Examples
25. The Transition between the Clinical Skills Lab and the Real World – Perspectives from a New Graduate 2 Years After Qualifying
Glossary
Index
Back Cover
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