The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Anesthesiology

Teaching Veterinary Students

Senior veterinary students are a core component of the small animal anesthesia service, and also contribute to the large animal anesthesia service. Each student chooses cases to anesthetize for that day and works with that case from beginning to end. This provides the opportunity for the student to appreciate all aspects of anesthesia and also allows for case continuity — where one individual is doing all the monitoring, and gets to know the patient and how they are responding to anesthesia.

Students are responsible for examining cases the day before the case is to be anesthetized and designing an anesthetic plan. The student should be familiar with the case, including clinicopathologic, diagnostic imaging, and physical exam findings as well as progress since hospitalization.

The student should also be familiar with the procedure to be performed, as this will often impact anesthetic management. Once all of the cases have been worked up, case rounds will be held where each case is discussed in depth with the other students and the supervising anesthesiologist.

Academic Courses

SAMS/LAMS 5203 — Principles of Anesthesia
Principles and application of anesthesia to large and small animals.

LAMS 5220 — Large Animal Anesthesia Elective
Advanced concepts in large animal patients.

SAMS 5325 — Small Animal Anesthesia Elective
Advanced concepts in small animal patients.

This page was last updated March 18, 2008.