Large Animal Emergency Relief Services-A Model for University Engagement With Private Practitioners and Development of Practice Readiness for Veterinary Students.

ABSTRACT: Large animal teaching hospitals often struggle to maintain consistent teaching caseloads, which are affected by seasonal variations, economic pressures, increased abilities of local large animal practices to hospitalize large animals, and client intolerance for the operational needs of an academic mission. Non-academic large animal practices enjoy a more consistent caseload but suffer from a lack of emergency relief and a limited ability to share emergency duties, which may have adverse effects on work-life balance. An academic, on-farm, large animal emergency relief service can combine multiple clinics' emergency services to increase overall caseload and the probability of consistent teaching exposure for veterinary students. In late November of 2013, the Large Animal Teaching Hospital at

SUBMITTER: Graves MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396559 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature