Veterinary Assistant school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

Veterinary assistants are becoming more important as valued members of the veterinary health care team in today’s modern practices. This one-year program prepares you to support veterinary technicians and veterinarians in a veterinary practice. Duties performed by veterinary assistants include animal restraint, preparing animals for surgery, care of surgical instruments and other equipment, care and feeding of in-patients, processing radiographs, and front office procedures. Veterinary assi...

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The Veterinary Assistant program consists of eight semester length courses and a practicum for a total of 736
contact hours. It is heavily technique oriented from the outset utilizing a tiered approach, thus encouraging students to
enter employment at various levels of competency while continuing their education. Participants will practice learned
skills immediately and often. Training will focus on skills required of a back-office and front-office assistant with lab
and practicum ex...

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Veterinary Assisting school covers the following:
Emergency Medicine
The Physical Examination
Ethics and Professionalism
Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology
Behavior and Physical Restraint
Pathology, Preventive Medicine and Disease
Laboratory Procedures
Pharmacology and Pharmacy Practices
Diagnostic Imaging
Surgical Nursing

The Veterinary Assisting Course is comprised of 22 comprehensive lessons. They are easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson begins with a subject matter preview and objectives, an introductory note from your instructor and a vocabulary builder of new words and terms.

Next comes the reading assignment. Practice exercises help you check and review what you’ve learned. At the end of the lesson is an open-book exam, which you may take online.

Veterinary office assistant training can help you make a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love them. Our course prepare you for a rewarding career working as an administrative veterinary assistant in a veterinary hospital, animal shelter, zoo, university or other environment that requires a background in animal sciences.

Developed by veterinary professionals, our veterinary assistant training will teach you the procedures and skills necessary to bring health and comf...

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