Advanced Shelter Medicine

1.5 credits · VM

The course will cover more advanced topics in shelter medicine practice: management of common infectious diseases, facilities and housing, quality of life and humane euthanasia, behavioral programs, high quality high volume spay neuter, veterinary forensic exams, access to care and spectrum of care practice, community cats, and regulatory matters affecting shelters and shelter practice. Lectures and readings are supplemented by in-person activities including an in-person shelter tour, outbreak management exercise, hands-on spay-neuter technique training, and intake procedure models.