Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual PDF

Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual

By Nichola Coombes and Ayona Silva-Fletcher

Veterinary Clinical Skills Manual PDF. 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.

Table of Contents

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