Description
Book SynopsisDown-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 ContentsSection 1: Introduction 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 4: Theatre Practice 5: Surgical Instruments 6: The Fundamentals of Suturing Section 3: Anaesthesia 7: The Anaesthetic Machine 8: Breathing Systems, Intubation and Monitoring Section 4: Principles of Good Practice in the Laboratory 9: Laboratory Skills and Sample Collection 10: Using a Microscope and Preparing Samples 11: Urine and Faecal Analysis Section 5: General Clinical Skills 12: Physical Examination, Fluid Therapy, Tube and Drain Management 13: Principles of Small Animal Bandaging 14: Pharmacy Section 6: Patient Handling and Diagnostics 15: General Principles of Animal Handling 16: Diagnostic Imaging 17: Equine Radiography – Example Tarsus Section 7: Large Animal Skills 18: Udder Health 19: Equine Procedures 20: Equine Foot Related Skills: Example Shoe Removal Section 8: Assessment of Clinical Skills 21: Practical Assessments – Assessments in a Simulated Environment 22: Objectively Structured Clinical Examinations – the Practicalities Section 9: Moving Forward 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
