Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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VTMED 6425 - Shelter Medicine I


Spring. 1 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.

J. M. Scarlett, E. Berliner, H. Putnam.

Shelter Medicine is a new and exciting discipline in veterinary medicine.  Caring for animals in animal shelters requires a herd health, as well as an individual animal perspective.  This course addresses the role of veterinarians working with and for animal shelters, the principles of preventive medicine and population health in companion animals; behavioral enrichment, behavior assessment; shelter metrics; flow-through planning; zoonotic diseases, management of common infectious disease and approved methods of euthanasia for companion animals. 



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