Student Shelter Opportunities Online

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to High Quality High Volume Spay-Neuter (HQHVSN) surgery in the shelter environment and consists of 17 asynchronous online lecture hours and 3 hours of Zoom-based synchronous lecture hours of material that utilizes the Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay-Neuter Programs. Lecture topics, assignments, and pre/post tests are delivered online and include an overview of HQHVSN, patient handling, anesthesia and pain management in the shelter environment, partner protocols, patient monitoring, patient pre-surgical preparation, basic surgical principles, sterilization of the male and female cat, and sterilization of the male and female dog. Online lecture and discussion sessions will complement and expand upon online material. There are no lab or in-person clinical components to this course. Emphasis in this course is a holistic approach to HQHVSN including pre-clinical skill acquisition that also introduces some concepts of shelter medicine and community programming. Grading is pass/fail. Purchase of an online webtext is required. Curriculum/course to cover high-quality, high-volume surgical and anesthetic principles to properly prepare students for not only these experiences, but give them a better foundation for learning life-long skills and enhancing their surgical experience at Penn via authentic learning experiences. Students will have to complete extensive online learning and assessments for this course. Students will complete webtext material asynchronously during the summer block and will be required to attend three one-hour discussion synchronous sessions scheduled during the summer online. Dates will be released for the summer session by the end of the spring semester. Students who take the 2nd year elective VCSP6640 may not sign up for this course. Students may complete this course…