Topics include human relations both with clients and other staff, basic business principles, medical records, financial transactions, ordering and inventory, supervising and hospitalized animal health care. Computerization and its use in the veterinary office are investigated. Three credit hours. The place of necropsy as a learning experience is explained. Proper techniques for small animal and avian species are demonstrated and other species are illustrated.
Laboratory exercises with exotic species occur as the opportunities exist.
Additional student time and assignments will be required outside of scheduled class and laboratory hours. One credit hour. The student becomes familiar with the major drugs used in veterinary medicine. Pharmacy covers maintenance and inventory. Pharmacology is intended to acquaint the student with fundamental knowledge of the mechanism of action, the dosage, the routes of administration and the toxic effects of various groups of veterinary-related drugs.