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Teaching The Caine Center maintains a highly-rated and effective veterinary medicine teaching program. This success has been largely due to the selection of teaching-oriented faculty and a practical approach to clinical problem solving. The food animal production medicine rotation includes: 1) clinical skills and individual animal medicine, 2) internal medicine, with lectures in bacteriology, virology, fluid therapy, nutrition, and food animal production medicine and record keeping, 3) necropsy, and 4) disease investigation studies on beef cattle, dairy cattle and small ruminants. Specialty blocks include general food animal medicine, dairy production medicine, reproduction/biotechnology, cow/calf management, feedlot medicine, sheep/lambing management, and small ruminant clinical medicine. Caine Center personnel contribute to the AVS Department undergraduate program by providing summer internship opportunities that are specially designed for the pre-veterinary students. On-campus faculty members serve as advisors for pre-veterinary students. One WOI (WI) Program faculty member in the AVS Department and stationed at Moscow, teaches in the second- and third-year instructional programs at the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Two Caine Center faculty members also serve on the UI Graduate faculty and are active in the AVS Department graduate student programs. The facilities and programs at the Caine Center present an outstanding opportunity to offer continuing education programs for veterinarians and livestock producers, particularly in southern Idaho
Descriptions of Rotations to be Offered at Caine Veterinary Teaching Center during 2008-2009 The following are short synopses of the blocks offered to senior veterinary program students by the Caine Center. Students can take any or all of the blocks. There are now some prerequisites. Prerequisites are noted where applicable.
VM 635P General Food Animal Block I The General Food Animal Production Block I is part of a two-block series designed for students with limited food animal experience as well as those strongly interested in food animal and mixed animal practice. No large animal experience is required to have an excellent learning experience in this block. It addresses basic veterinary disease investigation, clinical medicine, diagnostic laboratory procedures, surgery, and necropsy, giving a good all-around exposure to dairy, beef, sheep and goat medicine and management. In this block, students have the opportunity to admit and handle cases, take samples, practice techniques, set up treatments, conduct on-farm analysis and do surgery. A faculty member oversees students’ choices and Veterinary Technicians help if needed in the taking of samples, placing IVs and setting up for surgery. Field Diagnosis includes visits to dairies for, among other things, condition scoring, mastitis control, calf rearing oversight, post-partum problems and nutritional evaluations. Visits to sheep farms, feedlot and cow/calf operations include experience in handling animals for vaccination, foot trimming, body condition scoring programs, castration, etc; a feedlot operation for health checks, weekly treatments, etc; slaughter house for food safety experiences, and other specific disease investigations as they come in.
VM 635P General Food Animal Block IIThe General Food Animal Production Block 2 is a continuation of, or an additional 2 weeks of Block I. Students will have the opportunity to get additional experience in palpation, calf (lamb/kid) management, records, fluid therapy, diagnosis of disease in the clinic and on-farm, on-dairy experience in sick cow diagnosis and procedure, bio-security and production problems, and surgical practice. The last day of each block is capped by students’ oral presentations of food animal problems of their choosing. For information regarding this block contact Drs. Wayne Ayers, Marie Bulgin, James England.
VM 633P Dairy Block I Dairy Production Blocks I and II are a series of two, 2-week blocks and covers all the practical aspects of dairy production medicine. These blocks will dwell on a problem-oriented approach emphasizing the optimization of cow health, improving profitability and efficiency. The student will be exposed to various styles of dairy management and involved in real life dairy problems affecting the economic health of a dairy. The students will visit local dairies, (100 to 3,500 cow units) commercial heifer-raising operations, large-scale calf raisers and see various styles of dairy management. Contact Dr. Wayne Ayers or Dr. Chris Schneider
VM 633P Dairy Block II
Prerequisite—Dairy Block I
VM 633P Beef Calving Block The Beef Calving Block is a two-week long on-ranch experience in beef cattle calving. Students will be assigned to selected cow-calf operations in the area: 1.) Intensive first-calf calving All students will have opportunities to perform C-section surgery before being assigned to the field. Students will be involved in calving assistance, cattle movement, feeding, and treatment programs and become acquainted with the record-keeping system of the ranch. They will evaluate and report on medicine and management programs of the specific ranch. They will be expected to evaluate the nutritional programs for the operation and prepare an appropriate report for the rancher, the Caine Center and colleagues to be presented in written and oral formats.
VM 633P Feedlot Block The Feedlot Block gives the students experience in feedlot medicine and management principles and implementation through on-site participation in feedlot operations during a two-week period. Students will spend in-residence times at a local 2000-5000 head backgrounding feedlot, a 10,000+ head backgrounding/finishing feedlot and a 120,000+ head finishing feedlot. Students will be expected to prepare appropriate reports for the rancher, the Caine Center, and colleagues to be presented in written and oral formats. Contact Dr. James England for more information about beef calving or feedlot blocks.
VM 633P Advanced Techniques In Reproduction Bovine Species Blocks I & II The Advanced Techniques in Reproduction provides students with the opportunity to learn and practice techniques such as artificial insemination, ultrasonography of the reproductive tract of females, early pregnancy diagnosis, fetal sexing, and embryo transfer. Block I: During Block I, basic and advanced topics of reproductive physiology and endocrinology and embryology will be reviewed and discussed in the format of lectures and seminars. Also during Block I, there will be intensive practice of palpation per rectum of the reproductive tract of bovine females and artificial insemination techniques. During the second week of the block, students will be responsible for designing and implementing the super-ovulation protocol of cows later to be flushed. Pre-requisites for Block I: Dairy Block I or Beef Production Management Block II: Block II will focus on examination of the reproductive tract by ultrasonography, early pregnancy diagnosis, and fetal sexing. During the second week of the block, each student will have the opportunity to perform non-surgical flush (embryo recovery) of the uterus of at least 1 cow for embryo recovery. According to availability of recipients, embryos will be transferred or frozen. Pre-requisites for Block II: Advanced Techniques in Repro Block I. For more information contact Dr. Wayne Ayers.
VM 633P Lambing Block Handling routine lambing problems The Lambing Block is a two-week on-farm experience that is only offered twice a year due to the seasonality of lambing. Students work with the crew of a large range-flock producers during the lambing period where they will observe first-hand management of a large livestock production unit. Students get to handle preparturient, parturient and postparturient ewe problems, dystocias, neonatal diseases and other routine veterinary procedures that arise during the lambing season. Students will use resources of the Caine Center including expertise of faculty and technicians, and the diagnostic laboratories and clinical facilities for their cases. They are expected to evaluate management practices and make practical recommendations on disease control and production improvement in a written report that is shared with the owner. For more information contact Dr. Marie Bulgin.
VM 633P Small Ruminant Block The Small Ruminant Block is a two-week block given in the Fall. Students will get to treat and handle small ruminant disease problems such as urolithiasis in wether goats, pneumonia, calf scours/pneumonia, ram semen checks, foot trimming, third eyelid sampling for scrapie, simple surgeries, and other routine veterinary procedures that arise in small ruminants during this time of the year. It acquaints the students with both sheep and goat production units, including goat dairies. The students will get experience in doing breeding soundness exams, 3rd eyelid and rectal sampling for scrapie, parasite evaluation and treatment, body condition scoring on the farm and some individual medicine and surgery. For more information contact Dr. Marie Bulgin.
VM 699P Special Topics Block
The Special Topics Block is a 1-or-2-week block designed for the student that desires advanced experience in some aspect of food animal medicine or management. It could be production medicine (dairy, beef or sheep), a specific disease or problem, disease investigation, diagnostic techniques, or food safety. If a student has a special interest in the above or some other aspect of food animals, they are encouraged to contact Drs. Bulgin, Ayers, England, or Schneider to discuss, plan and schedule it. University of Idaho: Caine Veterinary Teaching Center | Dr. James England - jengland@uidaho.edu | | Dr. M. Wayne Ayers - mwayers@uidaho.edu | | Dr. Roxanne Pillars - rpillars@uidaho.edu |
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