Professional Skills in Veterinary Bioscience III

The course continues the development of personal and professional capabilities required of veterinary professionals by building on VET SC 2500RW:

ANIMAL HANDLING: students perform, practice and demonstrate the necessary skills in restraint and handling of common species encountered in veterinary practice.

CLINICAL SKILLS: students are introduced to a number of basic clinical techniques for common veterinary species, including introduction to basic components of a general clinical examination

VET MED COMMUNICATION: students develop basic communication and consultation skills to enable effective relationship-centred clinical interviewing techniques.

STRESS MANAGEMENT: students identify sources and symptoms of stress and have the opportunity to practice stress management techniques.

HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND: students will recognise and appraise human animal relationships in the companion animal and large animal environments.

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXPERIENCE EVALUATION: Students evaluate and reflect on an animal husbandry extramural experience.

EMPLOYABILITY: Students will develop a position application and knowledge of workplace health and safety issues (WHS) as they relate to an animal enterprise or service business. 

Students will be expected to have completed a minimum of fifty percent of their Animal Husbandry Extra Mural Studies (AHEMS) placement requirements and completed an AHEMS placement record subsequent to VET SC 2500RW and prior to the commencement of this course. If AHEMS placement record used in Professional Skills II (VET SC 2500RW) was undertaken on a non-production animal species, the AHEMS placement record used in Professional Skills III must be on a production animal species to ensure adequate integration of AHEMS reflections into the curriculum. Students analyse information collected on placements in this course.