VETCS 7100 - Advanced Veterinary Anesthesiology I

Fall, Spring. 1 credit. S/U grades only.

Prerequisite: VTMED 5606 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to: third- and fourth-year veterinary students, graduate students, interns, and residents.

J.M. Boesch.

This course is designed to prepare house officers in the Section of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine for the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA) certifying examination. The course consists of a three-year cycle of topics (two semesters of anatomy and physiology and one semester each of pharmacology, equipment, monitoring, and clinical anesthesiology, including comparative anesthesia/analgesia). Each week, a lecture, discussion session, or wet laboratory designed to allow residents to practice clinical skills is held, and an online mock ACVAA examination concludes each semester. The course is also suitable for interns and residents training in other specialties, such as surgery, internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, and laboratory animal medicine. Some seminars are useful for graduate students with interests in applied physiology and pharmacology. Speakers may be either internal or invited from other institutions.