Courses of Study 2016-2017 
    
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Courses of Study 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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VTMED 6425 - Introduction to Shelter Medicine


     
Spring. .5 credit. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: VTMED 5400 . Highly recommended prerequisite: VTMED 6734 . Enrollment limited to: third- and fourth-year veterinary students. Minimum enrollment 5; maximum 40. This is the second course in a three-course sequence.

E. Berliner, H. DeTar.

The course will cover 8 hours of lecture on very basic shelter medicine principles, to include the history of sheltering and humane organizations, issues with pet overpopulation and free roaming companion animals, animal cruelty, an overview of preventive medicine and population health in shelters, sanitation and disinfection, and population management. It will be a pre-requisite for Shelter Med II (VTMED 6434 ) and the clinical rotation (VTMED 6623 ).



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