Editor’s Note: In their fourth and final year of veterinary school, students are required to complete a series of two-week clinical rotations in the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center. This article is one in a series that highlights those rotations.
From trimming a bull’s hooves to working with goats, the fourth-year veterinary students in the Food Animal and Camelid Medicine and Surgery clinical rotations are exposure to a variety of issues, procedures and treatments.
The two-week clinical assignment focuses on the management of food animal and camelid medicine and surgery cases. In the same day, the fourth-year students could be working a bull weighing 2300 pounds and then a goat that they can easily manuever by themselves.
Specific instruction in the course includes clinical evaluation of cases coupled with the appropriate diagnostic testing and therapeutic intervention.
Additional instruction is provided in disease prevention, intensive care and management of food animal and camelid species with particular emphasis placed on appropriate on-label and extra-label drug usage in food animal species.
December 2025