Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual

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

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