• Veterinary Clinical Skills

    Provides instructors and students with clear guidance on best practices for clinical skills education

    Veterinary Clinical Skills provides practical guidance on learning, teaching, and assessing essential clinical skills, techniques, and procedures in both educational and workplace environments. Thorough yet concise, this evidence-based resource features sample assessments, simple models for use in teaching, and numerous examples demonstrating the real-world application of key principles and evidence-based approaches.

    Organized into nine chapters, the text explains what constitutes a clinical skill, explains the core clinical skills in veterinary education and how these skills are taught and practiced, describes assessment methods and preparation strategies, and more. Contributions from expert authors emphasize best practices while providing insights into the clinical skills that are needed to succeed in veterinary practice. Presenting well-defined guidelines for the best way to acquire and assess veterinary skills, this much-needed resource:

    • Describes how to design and implement a clinical skills curriculum
    • Identifies a range of skills vital to successful clinical practice
    • Provides advice on how to use peer teaching and other available resources
    • Covers veterinary OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) topics, including gowning and gloving, canine physical examination, and anesthetic machine setup and leak testing
    • Includes sample models for endotracheal intubation, dental scaling, silicone skin suturing, surgical prep, and others

    Emphasizing the importance of clinical skills in both veterinary curricula and in practice, Veterinary Clinical Skills is a valuable reference and guide for veterinary school and continuing education instructors and learners of all experience levels.

  • Acknowledgments

    List of authors

    List of contributors

    Preface

    Book Chapters

    Chapter 1 What is a clinical skill?

    Emma Read and Sarah Baillie

    Chapter 2 Clinical skills curricula: How are they determined, designed and implemented?

    Jennifer Hodgson, Elrien Scheepers, Sarah Baillie

    Chapter 3 How are clinical skills taught?

    Sarah Baillie, Matt Read and Emma Read

    Chapter 4 How are clinical skills practiced?

    Emma Read and Robin Farrell

    Chapter 5 How do I know if I’m learning what I need to?

    Sheena Warman and Emma Read

    Chapter 6 How do I prepare for assessment and how do I know I am being assessed fairly?

    Kate Cobb and Sarah Cripps

    Chapter 7 How can I learn best in a simulated environment?

    Julie Hunt, Stacy Anderson, Jennifer Johnson

    Chapter 8 How do I make use of peer teaching?

    Lucy Squire and Marc Dilly

    Chapter 9 What other skills are vital to successful clinical practice?

    Elizabeth Armitage-Chan and Susan Matthew

    Appendix 1: OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations)

    Making a cheese and pickle sandwich

    Sarah Baillie, Rachel Harris, Emma Read

    Gowning and gloving

    Tatiana Motta, Emma Read

    Draping a small animal patient

    Tatiana Motta

    Bovine surgical anatomy

    Jennifer Schleining

    Canine physical examination

    Steve Horvath, Missy Matusicky

    Surgical towel placement

    Abi Taylor

    Pedicle ligature

    Abi Taylor

    Equine handling and restraint

    Teresa Burns, Emma Read

    Intramuscular injection in a canine model

    Julie Hunt

    Anesthetic machine set up and leak testing

    Matt Read, Carolina Ricco-Pereira

    Appendix 2: Model Recipes – Simple models you can make yourself

    Canine castration model

    Lindsey Ramirez, Megan Preston, Julie Hunt

    Dental scaling model

    Rachel Harris, Andrew Gardiner, Rachel Lumbis

    Endotracheal intubation model

    Maire O’Reilly

    Equine abdominocentesis model

    Catherine May, Catherine Werners, Keshia John, Sarah Baillie, Emma Read

    Canine leg with cephalic vein model

    Lissann Wolfe

    Silicone skin suturing model

    Marc Dilly

    SimSpay model

    Rikke Langebaek

    Surgical prep model

    Jean-Yin Tan and Alfredo Romero

    Tea towel suturing model

    Alison Catterall

    Index

  • Emma K. Read, DVM, MVSc, DACVS

    Is Associate Dean for Professional Programs at the College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, USA.

    Matt R. Read, DVM, MVSc, DACVAA

    Is a Board Certified Veterinary Anesthesiologist with MedVet in Worthington, OH, USA.

    Sarah Baillie, BVSc, PhD, MRCVS

    Is an Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Education at Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol in Bristol, UK.

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