Educational Resources
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
The fundamentals of how clinical, diagnostic, production and financial information is obtained and used by production animal operations will be presented. Students will acquire skills to create and use spreadsheets for manipulating and summarizing data. They will also acquire knowledge of where to find inexpensive and readily available resources with information on how to use spreadsheets and other software. Students will also have the opportunity to work with record keeping programs used by food animal operations.
Credits: 1
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
The role of the veterinarian in the management of animal health and production in populations including evaluation tools in dairy and beef cattle herds, beef feedlots and swine herds will be described. Provides veterinary students with a starting point to understand the principles and techniques that are the basis of food-animal population health diagnosis management programs. Course available on-line, attendance is not required.
Credits: 2
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
This elective provides students opportunity to assist cow-calf operations with calving in Nebraska, South Dakota or other locations. These operations typically calve 300-1,000 head each spring. Calving experience is not required, but a good understanding of working around cattle is necessary. Students will be actively participating in the day to day, normal calving routine including detecting and sorting off ‘springers’, calf ‘watch’, detecting when intervention is needed and assisting delivery, caring for and monitoring newborns and dams for good health and early disease detection, tagging/processing new calves, treating calves needing intervention and performing other routine calving chores.
Credits: 2
7436A:
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Lectures will emphasize current production and evaluation techniques for beef cow/calf operations and students will learn to conduct and critically assess production and financial data using a standardized approach. Lab activities will allow students an opportunity to become Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certified through the Iowa Beef Center.
Credits: 1
7436B:
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Lectures will emphasize current production and evaluation techniques for beef cow/calf operations and students will learn to conduct and critically assess production and financial data using a standardized approach. Lab activities will allow students an opportunity to work with individual beef cattle producers to identify areas for improving profitability, health, and sustainability.
Credits: 1
7436C:
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Lectures will emphasize current production and evaluation techniques for beef cow/calf operations and students will learn to conduct and critically assess production and financial data using a standardized approach. Emphasis will be on obtaining a better understanding of nutritional and reproductive management of cow herds. Lab activities will allow students an opportunity to work with individual beef cattle producers to identify areas for improving profitability, health, and sustainability.
Credits: 1
7436D:
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Lectures will emphasize current production and evaluation techniques for feedlot production and students will develop a standard treatment protocol book. Topics include respiratory disease, receiving programs, nutrition, cattle handling and environmental issues.
Credits: 1
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
An introduction to diagnostic medicine including strengths and weaknesses of various testing technologies, how to choose appropriate tests and technologies, sampling strategies in diseased and non-diseased populations and interpretation and integration of results of tests to achieve an accurate diagnosis are discussed.
Credits: 1
Practical experience and training in necropsy, recognition of gross lesions, diagnostic sample collection and test selection for the diagnosis of infectious, toxic, nutritional and metabolic diseases through exposure to diagnostic cases submitted to the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. The VDL accepts cases from all species; however, this course predominantly consists of porcine and bovine cases. Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
Application of microbiological procedures to the diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Prereq: VDPAM 7310; Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Credits: 2
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
One-week VM4 elective focusing on Midwestern feedlot production. Addresses feedlot production practices common to Iowa and surrounding states, including feeding cattle on concrete or under roofs. Activities include participation and visitation to representative feedlots in Iowa.
Credits: 1
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Two-week senior elective that will focus on the economics of animal disease in cow/calf operations. Evidence based medicine and epidemiological principles will be used in investigation of disease outbreaks. Extensive partial budgeting used. Students will complete at least two disease investigations involving outbreaks in commercial cow/calf operations and communicate their findings to the class, the herd owner, and local practitioner.
Credits: 2
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Advanced course in beef production medicine with emphasis on herd management, production analysis, and problem solving. Forty hours clinical experience per week. Assignments will include preceptorships with a practicing veterinarian and/or a production unit.
Credits: 1-6
Prereq: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Students or (Instructor Permission or Permission of College Approver)
Two week advanced clinical rotation in beef production medicine. Fifteen hours recitation/discussion and 20 hours clinical experience per week. This course is designed to expose students to cow-calf and feedlot production concepts. The activities scheduled for the rotation depend greatly on the time of year. Whenever possible, the class incorporates field trips to better understand how commercial cow/calf and feedlots operate and the veterinarian’s role in their management.
Credits: 2