VETERINARY CLINICAL SKILLS MANUAL

• Section 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

Down-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.