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Volunteer at this year’s
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Coast to Coast!
Find out what your fellow
student chapters have been up
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Hello!!! I hope that this newsletter finds you all in good
spirits and in sunshine!! I appreciate the opportunity to
catch you up on the last few months of SVECCS
activities and to inform you of some awesome
opportunities coming up! Check out the conference
volunteer info in this article and make sure to catch up
with your fellow student chapters and read up on their
cool fundraising and learning experiences of the past
year! Good luck with your current challenges,
academically and personally! I hope to see many of you
at the conference in September!
Emily Lobkovich
Communications Director
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IVECCS 2014
VECCS is once again proud to conduct IVECCS 2014 in conjunction with the American
College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC), the Academy of Veterinary
Emergency & Critical Care Technicians (AVECCT), the American College of Veterinary
Anesthesia and Analgesia (ACVAA), the Academy of Veterinary Technician Anesthetists
(AVTA) and the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM). IVECCS is
known to be an intense clinical symposium and offers the highest-quality continuing
education available at any national or international meeting. Attendee surveys year after
year validate the quality and registrant satisfaction:
IVECCS is attended by many of the world’s most progressive, forward thinking clinical
veterinarians, technicians and practice managers searching for the latest advances in
equipment, instruments, pharmaceuticals, and information management tools.
The theme for IVECCS 2014 is “Infectious Diseases: EM/CC Issues” which will be woven
into the wide range of emergency and critical care topics included in the 400 hours of
scientific program presentations. As always, the underlying objective will be practical
application of these new and traditional modalities to optimize clinical patient care. Over
150 world class symposium speakers will utilize lectures, dry labs, workshops, wet labs and
interactive training sessions to provide unsurpassed CE.
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It is that time again!! When we invite student
volunteers for the International Veterinary
Emergency & Critical Care Symposium
IVECCS' 14
Sept – 10-14, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
VECCS has a program for students at IVECCS in which students
volunteer for “Team IVECCS”. In return, students that agree to
volunteer will receive free registration and most of their meals.
We are also partnered with Abbott Animal Health who has awarded us
a grant to for funding between $300 and $500 to every North America
Vet School that has an SVECCS Chapter in good standing and agrees
for students to volunteer approximately 8 hours at the
conference. These funds can be used to support your student travel to
IVECCS. With this funding we are hopeful that at least one student
from every school can attend.
Secondly, the school that has the most students attend and complete
their designated duties; they will receive an additional $500, payable to
their SVECCS Chapter!
To summarize IVECCS Volunteer program:
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Students volunteer for two half days and select their duties – this
consists of about 6-8 hrs total
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Volunteer options include: Assistant Moderators, Room Monitors,
Registration Support / Info Booth, help at the 5K Fun Run.
CHECK OUT THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
HERE:
http://www.2014.iveccs.org/twocol.aspx?page=Symposium%20Sc
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COAST TO COAST
University of Minnesota
For this academic year, the
University of Minnesota chapter of
SVECCS has strived to revitalize
the club. The executive board
inducted 4 brand new officers who
all brought great ideas for lunch
talks, wet labs, and fundraising
ideas.
Our lunch talks over the last year
included:
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Reproductive emergencies –
dystocia
Triage
Veterinary Disaster Relief
Story time with Ed – what to do
when emergency cases arrive at
a GP clinic
ER Cases from the Archives
Top 10 drugs to know for ECC
Clinic Rotation
LA emergencies
We had two wet labs planned for
this year:
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Triage
CPR
Fundraising:
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Mississippi State’s chapter of SVECCS had an
exciting year. The highlights of our year included
a presentation about eye related emergencies
from the new ophthalmologist at the CVM, Dr.
Caroline Betbeze. We also held our annual CPR
wetlab in November with our club advisor, Dr.
Todd Archer. This spring semester during
February we had a blood products wetlab that
was a great learning experience for all of our
members. Internal medicine resident, Dr. Jillian
Haines, gave a presentation about the
importance of blood therapy in critical patients.
We were then provided with different colored
tubes of feline blood and typing cards. All of our
members got to practice typing and determining
what type of blood was in each tube. Overall we
had a great year!
I would like to congratulate our newly elected
officers, Erica, Mary, and Jessie. I know they will
do a wonderful job during the 2014-2015 year!
Dog treats at the 2nd Annual
Dog Olympics
Overall, the year has gone well for
the club. Our members were really
excited to attend our lunch talks
and wet labs, and I look forward to
seeing what this club will do in
years to come.
Tara Herold-Eichhorn
President – SVECCS UMN
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The Ohio
State
University’s
chapter of
the Student
Veterinary
Emergency and Critical Care Society has had a
busy fall semester full of exciting lectures, wet
labs, and fundraising events. A unique aspect to
the Ohio State chapter is our broad species focus.
One of our goals is to expose our members to a
wide range of emergency work available in
veterinary medicine. To accomplish this goal, we
have ha lectures this fall on food animal and exotic
animal emergencies and will continue this spring
by offering a lecture on equine emergencies. To
add a fun twist to our lectures, we hosted a very
amusing lecture called “Funniest ER Stories.”
Presented by a panel of our emergency facultyand
residents while also incorporating a delicious pot
luck dinner. This lecture was a huge hit! Also, in
order to expose our members to the research side
of ER and critical care we hold monthly journal
clubs in which a faculty member or resident holds
an open discussion on an article of their choosing
with a small froup of SVECCS members.
While our members fill their heads with
knowledge through our lectures and journal clubs,
we’ve also had some exciting hands on wet labs
this fall. We hosted a CPR wet lab for our first
year members using canine and feline CPR
dummies for practice. We also hosted a wet lab
that we called “monitoring I” which gave our
members a chance to practice common monitoring
techniques used in the ER and ICU on their own
pets. These include doppler blood pressure, pulse
oximetry, and demonstartion of a fast scan.
Finally, we hosted our techniques I lab semester in
which members had a chance to place chest
tubes, jugular central lines, tracheostomy tubes,
and pergorm peripheral venous cut downs on
canine cadavers. We plan to hose our techniques
II wet lab this spring along with many others.
To finance our sought after lectures and wet
labs, we have created an entirely new fundraiser.
Since we personally love grilled cheese and
tomato soup so much we decided to sell it for a
fundraiser. It was a very popular and successful
event that has driven us to start the planning
process for another grilled cheese day this spring
semester.
Kate Scherer
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The Oklahoma State University
SVECCS has had an exciting year!
This past fall, we hosted Dr. Tina
Wismer from the ASPCA Animal
Poison Control Center for a
discussion of toxicological
emergencies. She gave us an
insight on the common toxins a
general practioner is likely to treat
and how to utilize the Animal
Poison Control hotline for our and
owner’s benefit.
We’ve also launched our
Small Animal ICU Team this year,
which we’re very excited about!
Each night, two students shadow
the clinicians, technicians, and 4th
year students after hours in the
ICU to get more experience in
emergent situations. It’s been met
with great reviews so far!
Lastly, we hosted our first
CPCR wetlab using the new
protocol outlined in the Recover
Initiative. Almost 40 students
attended to practice running case
scenarios in an arrested patient.
We discussed drug therapy and
practiced chest compressions,
intubation, and chest taps.
We’re looking forward to
passing the torch to our new
officers soon for the next school
year!
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We’re winding up a busy year here in southern California, as our new executive board prepares
to take office. Due to our unique curriculum, third and fourth year students are off campus, so we need
to pack as much in to our two years on campus as possible! Our outgoing board just wanted to mention a
few of our favorite events from the past year:
Open House is an annual tradition on campus at WesternU, and this past spring our club manned
a booth to teach Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts about foods and common household items that can be toxic
to their animals. Our members were able to interact
with the public and hopefully make a difference in
many pets’ lives—so many owners were unaware of
the dangers that onions, grapes, and lilies can pose.
The parents were full of questions for us too!
In September, our President and Secretary
were able to attend the first day of IVECCS and enjoyed mingling with other vets and students, meeting
prospective future employers at the VECCS & VECCF Job Fair, and Dr. Tony Yaksh’s excellent threepart talk on Anatomy of Systems that Process Pain Information, Mechanisms Underlying Tissue Injury
Evoked Pain States, and Mechanisms Underlying Nerve Injury Evoked Pain States. Unfortunately due to
our exam schedule many of our chapter members were unable to attend despite the close location!
Our chapter organized for a lunch talk on urolithiasis (pathophys and treatment) to be presented
by our club advisor, Dr. Maisie Dawes DVM, PhD, DACVIM, with a wetlab to follow in the evening
after class. During the wetlab students were provided with cadavers on which they placed urinary
catheters, practiced suturing on real tissue, performed perineal urethrostomies, tube cystotomies, and
bladder marsupialization! It was a huge success and everyone learned a lot of valuable techniques.
Definitely a hit and an event we’re hoping will be repeated in future years!
Our most recent event was a Vet ER Panel—two recent grads, Dr. Dierdre Murdy and Dr.
Liliana Enciso (both WesternU Class of 2011) came to speak to our chapter members about their
journey in veterinary medicine, how and when they knew that emergency and critical care medicine was
for them, and how they came to be the successful practicing vets they are today. It was an inspiring talk
and our members were full of questions for these new vets! It was a happy reminder to keep our goals in
mind and remember the huge difference we as future veterinarians can make in so many lives.
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VECCS University of Melbourne chapter has had a very
exciting semester! Senior students have been practicing
their suturing skills on real skin and brushing up on their
CPR skills with dog and cat models and mock emergency scenarios. First and second year students have
been practicing their basic clinical skills with a workshop entailing fluid therapy, venipuncture, intubation
and animal restraint stations.
Over sixty senior students have shown a keen interest in ECC by signing up for the program. We held four
sessions of suturing skills workshops with 15 students each. In each session, students practiced simple
and complex suture patterns on pig or horse legs. Dr. Erin Mooney and Veterinary Clinical Skills Centre
Manager/Nurse Educator Carol Bradley assisted in teaching skills and perfecting patterns. The students
practiced simple incisional repairs and then were given more complex scenarios such as lump removal
which required tension relieving patterns.
Four CPR sessions were held allowing students to gain hands on experience to become prepared for real
emergency situations. After having our resuscitation lectures from Dr. Manu Boller, a 2 hour hands-on
workshop provided a quick run through of the “RECOVER” CPR guidelines and a reminder of the
emergency drugs used. Students practiced the timing and depth of compressions on dog and cat models
before being given emergency scenarios. Groups of five students attacked each scenario with roles
forming as the situation unwound. A simulator ECG, capnograph and blood pressure monitor added an
element of reality. All of the students learned from each scenario, improving with each session.
The second year students gained critical clinical skills before heading to their first clinical placements this
summer. Twenty-five students rotated through the four-station workshop set up in the clinical skills centre.
The models were set up to practice intubation with the laryngoscope and students were instructed how to
find the correct tube size and how far to inflate the cuff. The fluid therapy station included a brief run
through on prepping lines, working automatic pumps and calculating fluid rates. Models were used for
intravenous catheter placement, and students were taught how to safely insert and tape a cephalic
catheter. At the final station, we had two furry volunteers to demonstrate proper restraint for cephalic
catheter placement and jugular blood draw.
Lunch time lectures which were open to all students included the topics “Top 3: Most common
emergencies to walk in the door” and “Snake envenomation: recognition and treatment.”
This semester we plan on offering a lecture on “Sepsis and SIRS”, and an A-FAST and T-FAST ultrasound
workshop.
Cheers,
Jenna Hanson
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Hello from Calgary, Canada!
Our new executives hit the ground running before the Fall
semester began! The year started off by offering students
four hour volunteer shifts shadowing in the emergency
department at Western Veterinary Specialist & Emergency
Centre. We began the program in August 2013 and over
30 students have participated so far. We have received
fantastic feedback from both students and the clinic, with
shifts continuing into the spring and summer.
In January, Dr. Serge Chalhoub (DACVIM) presented a talk
about various small animal toxicities which are commonly presented in emergency practice.
Three community veterinarians attended, participated in the discussion, and shared their
experiences. The case based presentations, as well as videos of patients,made it a hit for the
25+ students who attended.
SVECCS hosted a Potluck Meet & Greet in February, where community veterinarians joined
Dr. SØren Boysen (DACVECC) and club members for an informal dinner. The goal was to learn
about the good, bad, and ugly of working in an emergency practice to help students learn
more about this area of medicine. There were discussions about lifestyle, family, working
hours, internships, and specialization from four veterinarians with over 50 years of combined
experience specifically in emergency medicine.
Our chapter is presenting the 2nd Annual SVECCS CPR Competition in March. Last spring we
were fortunate to win the SVECCS Educational Grant for this event, and students are
demanding we repeat it! It promises to be our largest event with over 45 students (1/3 of our
entire school faculty!) participating. Faculty and community veterinarians will judge teams of
4 students. The details of the scenarios are unknown to students, adding to the surprise and
excitement of the competition. Points are awarded for professionalism, communication,
proper interpretation of various monitors, proper drug selection and administration, CPR
skills, and safety when using the external defibrillators!
Our events and club would not be as successful without the help of our amazing professors
(especially Drs. Boysen & Chalhoub) and technicians here at UCVM!
Mel Weir, UCVM SVECCS President 2013-14
If the name of your school appears below, that means we do NOT have all of the required
documents needed to keep your school qualified as an active SVECCS chapter!!! Please
contact your board representative if your school is on this list!!
Atlantic Veterinary College
Auburn University
North Carolina State
Colorado State
Ohio State
Cornell University
Oklahoma State
Iowa State
Purdue
Kansas State
Ross University
Louisiana State
St. Matthew’s
U of Calgary
U of California-Davis
U of Florida
U of Georgia
U of Guelph (OVC)
U of Illinois
U of Pennsylvania
U of Saskatchewan
U of Tennessee
U of Wisconsin-Madison
Virginia-Maryland Regional
Washington State
Massey University
Michigan State
Mississippi State
U of Liverpool
U of Melbourne
U of Montreal
Western U of Health Sciences
Texas A&M
Tufts
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UW-Madison students
have the opportunity to participate in two wet
labs hosted by the emergency and critical
care class and UW-Madison SVECCS. The
first class features a wet lab where students
get to practice suture skills, basic lab tests,
obtaining as well as interpreting EKG and noninvasive blood pressure measurements, and
practice catheter placement on a dummy dog.
The advanced elective features a wet lab
where each pair of students gets a cadaver to
practice intubation, tracheostomies,
thoracocentesis, abdominocentesis, placing
nasoesophageal and esophageal feeding
tubes, and several other procedures.
Students also learn how to preform CPR
correctly on a dog model. Both electives
include numerous lectures given by the
wonderful clinicians and residents at UWMadison. Students have loved the hands-on
nature and case based format of the classes
and labs, as it gives first and second years
many opportunities they normally would not
experience until fourth year clinical rotations.
One of the highlights for our SVECCs
Chapter is each year is our annual continuing
education conference. This year’s 15th annual
conference offers a wide variety of topics
including Ocular Injuries, Cardiac
Arrhythmias, CPR, Nutrition, and Pain
management. This year is extra special for
us, since all of our speakers are from the UWMadison Veterinary Hospital! It makes us feel
very proud and lucky to have such a wellrounded and educated staff representing UW
Madison and SVECCS. Local veterinarians
look forward to our conference every year to
get the most up-to-date information about
emergency and critical care topics. This
conference is one day long, and provides not
only veterinarians and veterinary technicians,
but students as well, the chance to learn how
to better deal with various emergencies and
network with each other.
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The Massey
SVECCS
committee
organized another awesome one day conference for August
2013. The morning was comprised of four talks which
included both small to large animal topics. After a
delicious lunch, attendees headed into the labs and post
mortem stations to get some practice in the skills labs. This
year, volunteer staff members helped set up stations
including suturing practice, fluid calculations, urinary
catheter placement, and a popular “tubes everywhere!”
station where members could practice placing catheters,
chest drains, thoracocentesis, as well as endotracheal
intubation. In addition, the committee set up a fetotomy
theory and practice station where attendees could perform
basic cuts used in bovine obstetrical cases. These skills are
frequently put to use in the spring calving period on New
Zealand dairies, which are predominately outdoor, seasonal
systems. Another highlight was the spey and GDV station
where one of the clinic’s resident surgeons walked
enthusiastic students through practicing these types of
surgeries on cadavers. All attendees received anonymous
feedback forms which relayed how the club can further
improve the conference experience in future years. The
overwhelming general consent confirmed it was a great
success!
In September, the SVECCS team also held a CPR lecture
and workshop this which was overseen by the university
clinic’s senior anaesthetist. Students rotated through
several stations that emphasized the application of CPR and
revival in patients. Chest compressions were practiced on
our CPR model dogs to the beat of “Staying Alive” by the
Bee Gees. There were also information and quiz stations to
help students learn more about the equipment used for
revivals and monitoring at-risk patients. The workshop was
a great opportunity for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years to practice
skills that they will need in future years.
The student run events within Massey SVECCS are always
a great way to supplement the weekly club talks and get
more students engaged in emergency medicine. We hope
to have even more fun and excitement as our chapter
continues to grow in the 2014 academic year!
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The Michigan State University SVECCS chapter has
been busy with a combination of general meetings
with faculty and wet labs.
In the fall, the highlight of club activities was a
laceration repair, drain placement & enucleation wet
lab. Students attended a lecture on typical laceration
case management and subsequently received handson experience with cadavers. The lab was assisted by
a board certified Emergency and Critical Care
Medicine specialist (Dr. Amy Koenigshof), ECCM
residents, board certified surgeon (Dr. Laura Nelson),
as well as an ophthalmology resident to guide us through enucleation.
The spring has and continues to be a busy semester for the club. We
have hosted multiple lunch meetings. Our initial meeting was a GDV
initial and surgical management talk in conjunction with our surgery club,
with Dr. Beal, DACVECCM and Dr. Nelson, DACVS. The other two
meetings were pertaining to seizures (Dr. Jutkowitz, DACVECCM), and
hit by car traumas (Dr.
Koenigshof, DACVECCM). Our
cardiology dry lab was a big hit
and we are looking forward to our upcoming wet lab where we will
be unblocking cats as well as performing other procedures
including jugular cut-downs under instruction of our ECCM
clinicians and residents. As the year closes out, we will be having
a final meeting about internships and residencies!
Overall it has been a busy but exciting semester, but we look
forward to planning more events for the upcoming fall.
Michigan State By Courtney Andries
SVECCS President
For EXTERNSHIP opportunities, visit:
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Written By: Teresa Kaiser
The Student Chapter of the Veterinary
Emergency and Critical Care Society (SVECCS) at
the University of Tennessee, College of Veterinary
Medicine (UTCVM) had a very successful and
exciting first year back after being re-instated at
the end of last year. We were able to recruit many
new members, establish a small animal
emergency team within the small animal teaching
hospital, have monthly lunch meetings as well as a
great dinner meeting and wet-lab, and we also
organized two separate
fundraisers to raise money for the
club.
The small animal
emergency team was the big first
goal of the club. Our coordinators
worked very closely with the head
technician in our small animal
hospital’s Intensive Care Unit
(ICU) to work up a schedule that
allowed students to spend a
minimum of 4 hours in the ICU
every month. Each month the
schedule would be released and
students would have the
opportunity to sign up for the shifts after a certain
We found this to be a great learning experience,
period of time if there were left over shifts the
especially for the first and second years, and it
students were allowed to sign up for additional
allows students another opportunity to get into
shifts. During these shifts the students helped the
clinics and have some hands-on learning in the
technicians and senior students provide
years leading up to their fourth year rotations.
treatments and whatever else to the patients in
ICU.
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In January of this year we held a CPR wet-lab for a
small group of our members. It was run by one of our
Board Certified Anesthesiologists who is also CPR
certified in humans as well as the head technician of
our ICU. The lab began with a lecture on the newly
released Recover Guidelines which we also provided a
copy and link to for all who participated. After the
lecture the simulation was set up with a resusca-dog
and the computer simulation. There were 3 groups of
5-6 people each and each group was provided a
scenario. The group decided who was going to do
what job in the group (ie chest compression, delivering drugs, timing, recorder, etc) and they then acted
out the scenario with the other groups watching. After the scenario was completed the group was provided
with constructive criticism as well as positive feedback and then they were allowed to run the scenario
again to see how they could improve. Therefore, each group was allowed to “run a code” twice and were
able to watch four more times. We heard a lot of positive feedback from both the students who
participated as well as the staff members involved. We hope to continue this wet-lab as a yearly
occurrence for our SVECCS club and maybe even try and do it once a semester since the number of
people who can attend does have to be capped due to limited resusca-pets.
In February of this year we also had our annual dinner meeting. We invited a local Emergency
Veterinarian from one of the bigger Emergency hospitals in Knoxville to come and speak about common
toxicities that are often seen in Emergency settings. We provided dinner to all who attended and it was a
great talk. She presented quite a few cases of different pets eating or getting into things they shouldn’t
and we worked through them as a group. It was especially great for the second years who attended as
they had just finished their toxicology class. And it was also a good reminder for the third years before
they head into clinics.
We also had great speakers at our monthly meetings that ranged from dystocias in cows (for are
LA folks) to analgesia and anesthesia in the critical patient. We organized two wonderful fundraisers with
t-shirts, car decals, and hip packs for clinics that helped us raise money for our new club. We also elected
our next group of officers who have done a wonderful job in taking over and helping organize our last
couple of meetings for this year. We were very pleased with our first year back and we hope the club can
continue to grow and provide great hands-on learning experiences for current and
future members.
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As is the case with most SVECCS Chapters, RVC SVECCS has had an
incredibly busy 2014! ‘SVECCS Rounds’ held every three weeks throughout
the year has provided frequent case studies in a relaxed atmosphere hosted by
Shailen Jasani and Queen Mother Hospital colleagues including Dan Chan and
our supervisor Lindsay Kellet-Gregory. With different scenarios at every
session members have discussed the best approach to a range of presentations,
from dyspnoeic cats to CPCR, including stabilising major problems and
planning of continued therapeutics.
In conjunction with BCF Technology™ SVECCS ran an A-FAST/T-FAST wet lab with Dr Pete Mantis where
members’ canine friends exchanged dodgy haircuts for lots of fuss while students practiced these essential skills. As
ultrasound can be particularly formidable to veterinary students and opportunities to actually practice on live animals
scarce, this practical was highly valued by our members and we are going to run it again in the Autumn. We were
also lucky enough to have a lecture by Royal Canin on Nutrition in the Critical Patient.
Our annual Symposium in February attracted
some fantastic speakers including Amanda Boag
(Clinical Director of Vets Now and President of
EVECCS), Rachel Kilroy from the PDSA and Dr
Holger Volk and this successful event was kindly
sponsored by Starbucks™. Members also had
the option of three practicals: Catheter Placement
and IVFT, Bovine Emergency Caesarean with
cadaver specimens and Advanced ECC
Diagnostics run by our QMH interns and
residents. We’ve now been asked by members if
we can run this as a two day event next year…!
It’s not all small animal though! SVECCS has
had both farm and equine lectures this year,
including working with the emergency services
in equine emergencies, approach to the Downer
Cow and LDAs. In order to make these lectures
accessible to as many students as possible, we
offered members of the RVC’s Farm Animal and
Equine Clinical Clubs free access to these
sessions.
Third year student Ella Townsend performs an A-FAST scan on
labrador Alfie
As our events become increasingly popular, membership
numbers have soared and RVC SVECCS has continued to
attract attention from enterprises outside of the Royal
Veterinary College. We have had an article in the Veterinary
Record about the activities of the society and the importance of
ECC education for new graduates and are in discussions with
Vets Now and Village Vet, Hampstead, about providing
placements in emergency practice for our members.
We hope that our society continues to grow and that we
maintain our excellent range of small and large animal lectures
and practicals throughout the remainder of the year and
beyond. Hopefully this time next year we will be bringing you
news of our long awaited cadaver wetlab!
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Virginia-Maryland Regional
College of Veterinary Medicine
Written by: Bibi Khalsa
The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine’s (VMRCVM) SCVECCS
club has been hard at work this 2013-2014 school year! We kicked off our academic
year with a bandaging lab where students were able to get their feet wet with a
variety of bandaging techniques including the modified Robert Jones with and
without splints, velpeau, ehmar and carpal flexion bandages. Continuing the
learning festivities, we also hosted a clinical skills lab.
To keep the ball rolling throughout the semester, our club members had the
opportunity to participate in bimonthly lunch rounds as well as weekly ICU
shadowing in the VMRCVM Teaching Hospital.
During the lunch rounds, students were able to interact in an intimate atmosphere
with a clinician who presented an interesting case. These lunch rounds allowed
SCVECCS club members to hone in on their problem solving skills, collaborate with
future colleagues and get to know the clinicians that will be mentoring them during
their fourth year.
The weekly shadowing in the ICU also gave students a taste of the excitement that
awaits them in fourth year. By becoming familiar with the fast paced atmosphere of A very exciting goal of our SCVECCS chapter this school year is for our
the ICU early, it not only gives students an edge for fourth year rotations, but also for club to become more involved with the surrounding Blacksburg
their future career.
community. We hope to fulfill this goal with the clubs participation in the
VMRCVM annual open house as well as funding from the Lisa Tudora
grant.
Annual VMRCVM Spring
Open House allows our
SCVECCS members to
connect with the Blacksburg
community
With the help of the Lisa Tedora grant, our officers are hard at work
planning a spring event with the Blacksburg Fire Department.
This event will help inform the general public about simple, emergency,
life saving techniques for their pets. We will be demonstrating
fundamental techniques like CPR, which could mean the difference
between life and death for the Blacksburg community members’ animals.
Thus far, the 2013-2014 school year has been exciting and eventful for
our student chapter, and there is much more to come!
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Hope to see you all in
September!
Study hard, future
Email at any time with questions,
we are happy to answer all that
we can and direct you to the right
place if we cannot. To find our
contact info go to:
www.sveccs.org
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