This course, and concurrent registration in the associated lab course, ANIMLSCI 455VL, provides basic instruction in laboratory animal anatomy and physiology, restraint and handling, nutrition and management ? with emphasis on the laboratory rat, mouse, hamster, rabbit and gerbil. Lectures include material on principles of disease, research use and therapeutic techniques and well as regulations applicable to research facility operation.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

Humane care, handling, and management of mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, and non-human primates used in research, nutrition, breeding, disease control, gnotobiology, anesthesiology, surgery, and necropsy.

This course covers the basic principles of pharmacology, including general drug types, dosage forms, drug administration, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Drug packaging, labeling, and dispensing are covered, as are record keeping for pharmacologic agents. The legal and ethical factors involved in handling pharmaceuticals are considered. Prescription notation and review of drug calculations are also included.

This is the laboratory component of ANIMLSCI 415. Students will learn clinical techniques including but not limited to venipuncture, intravenous catheterization, fluid therapy, clinical skills to assess the urinary system, bandaging, and electrocardiography.

This is the laboratory component of ANIMLSCI 415. Students will learn clinical techniques including but not limited to venipuncture, intravenous catheterization, fluid therapy, clinical skills to assess the urinary system, bandaging, and electrocardiography.

This course surveys the common disease conditions of the major body systems in the canine and feline patient. The technician's role in diagnostic procedures, treatments, emergency and critical care, preventative medicine, and client education relative to these disease conditions is emphasized.

This course presents basic concepts in managerial theory by examining such functions as leadership, organization, supervision, and evaluation. Lecture material includes a thorough examination of current techniques in veterinary facility management, technician utilization, client communication, marketing, record keeping, inventory control, and malpractice.

This course presents basic concepts in managerial theory by examining such functions as leadership, organization, supervision, and evaluation. Lecture material includes a thorough examination of current techniques in veterinary facility management, technician utilization, client communication, marketing, record keeping, inventory control, and malpractice.