MVCC

This course explores veterinary management and leadership with an emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion, cultural sensitivity, and comparative healthcare organization. Topics include: veterinary technician scope of practice, professional organization, technician utilization, and comparative paraprofessional scope of practice and utilization, diversity in the veterinary profession, concepts of leadership and applications to the veterinary profession, current veterinary profession issues and challenges, ethical issues in leadership, and strengthening diversity at the leadership level.

Systems based overview of clinically relevant physiology for the graduate veterinary technician. Students will gain understanding of homeostasis, function, regulation and integration of body systems.

This course will introduce advanced principles of soft-tissue and orthopedic surgery, wound healing, and wound management. Covers aseptic technique, pre-op work up, room and table prep, perioperative patient care, post- operative short term and long term care, and surgical suture and ligation techniques. Specialized instrumentation, equipment, and sterilization of specialized equipment will be introduced. This course will provide students with a broad knowledge of common small animal surgical diseases and disorders organized by system. The course will include multiple case discussions in order to allow students to apply the knowledge they gain in lecture to situations they may encounter in the clinical setting. Application of anatomic knowledge related to surgical prep and surgical approaches will be included.
Students will be required to demonstrate successful completion of related skills for this course.

This course is designed to teach evidence-based medicine (EBM) and information literacy skills that will enable veterinary professionals to conduct critical searches and evaluations of existing literature to improve patient care. Topics include advanced literature searches, developing PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) questions, overview of clinical study design, evaluating existing clinical guidelines, critically analyzing and synthesizing research articles using the GRADE criteria, and integrating evidence into practice.

This course will provide an in-depth review of anesthesia, anesthesia-related patient care, and pain management in the veterinary patient. Includes pre-anesthetic preparation and evaluation; anesthesia induction, maintenance, and emergence; post-anesthesia care; anesthetic equipment maintenance and trouble-shooting, and multimodal pain management techniques. Emphasis on case-based design of anesthetic protocols for patients with an ASA physical status of I -V. Students will be required to demonstrate successful completion of related skills for this course.

This course will provide an overview of veterinary public health, population health management, and One Health principles. Topics will include principles of epidemiology, herd health management, zoonotic and infectious disease control, human animal bond, and current topics in One Health. Students will learn about the importance of community stakeholders and interdisciplinary collaboration. This course will expand on principles of DEIB and cultural safety and humility learned in MVCC 501.

This course will provide students with a broad and comprehensive knowledge of common canine and feline medical diseases and disorders organized by system. This course will introduce the fundamentals of advanced patient management to allow students to make informed decisions when managing simple and complex cases in practice.

This course explains pathophysiologic mechanisms responsible for abnormal findings in hematologic, biochemical, urinalysis, and cytologic tests in health and disease of animals. Students will learn a selection of diagnostic tests for various diseases, interpretation of results, quality control, reference intervals, specificity, sensitivity, and positive and negative predictive values.

The course is designed to build a foundation of pharmacologic knowledge. Concepts of pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and pharmacodynamics (the action or effects of drugs on living organisms) that underlie the correct use of drugs in veterinary therapeutics will be covered. Exemplary pharmacologic classes of drugs, neuropharmacology of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems, and current topics in veterinary pharmacology will be covered.

This course is a culmination of previous small animal nursing knowledge, skills, and clinical experience. The course will focus on basic emergency and critical care veterinary nursing theory and concepts of patient assessment, fluid pathophysiology, critical patient monitoring, CPR, and disease pathophysiology. The course will include emergency and critical care case studies to apply practical application of knowledge and skills learned, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. The course goal is to prepare students to respond to emergency and critical patient scenarios in all types of small animal veterinary practices.

The course is designed to build a foundation of pharmacologic knowledge. Concepts of pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and pharmacodynamics (the action or effects of drugs on living organisms) that underlie the correct use of drugs in veterinary therapeutics will be covered. Exemplary pharmacologic classes of drugs, neuropharmacology of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems, and current topics in veterinary pharmacology will be covered.

This course examines the field of advanced veterinary dentistry and the advanced delivery of dental service with an emphasis on client communication and veterinary technician utilization.

This course will cover all imaging modalities that are used in veterinary medicine that are utilized on cats, dogs and exotic species.

Students will gain an understanding of dermatological conditions in veterinary medicine and treatment of these conditions in a clinical setting. Disease and condition etiology, pathology, progression, treatment, and client education will be discussed.

This course provides students with an appreciation of the critical role played by animal shelter professionals in protecting the health and welfare of sheltered dogs and cats and establishes a foundation of knowledge and expertise in the practice of Shelter Medicine.
NOTE: While only veterinarians may legally diagnose, prescribe medications, or perform surgery, veterinary technicians should be knowledgeable of evidenced-based best practices so they can follow standard operational protocols (SOPs) under the direct or indirect supervision of a Shelter Veterinarian.