VTMED 5701 - Veterinary Practice: Physical Examination (Foundation Course VIIa)

Fall. 1.5 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: first- year veterinary students. Live animals used in course instruction.

C. McDaniel, Staff.

Complements and augments material learned in VTMED 5100 (Foundation Course I - The Animal Body). The class is divided into small groups and each group meets for 4-5 hours each week during the first 11 weeks of the fall semester. Using the live dogs, cats, horses and cows as models for learning how to perform a physical examination, this laboratory course teaches the skills of observation, auscultation, palpation, and percussion as well as related basic diagnostic procedures. The body systems are examined sequentially and follow the order of study in Foundation Course I.