{"id":4389,"date":"2015-09-01T20:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/vmc\/clients\/what-to-expect\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:04:15","slug":"what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.iastate.edu\/vmc\/clients\/what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"paragraph-widget paragraph-widget--text-html\">\n\t<div class=\"text-content\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wd-Grid--2to1\">\n<div class=\"wd-Grid-cell\">\n<h2>Your Veterinary Healthcare Team<\/h2>\n<h3><b>Faculty veterinarian<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>A licensed veterinarian or Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) sees clinical patients at the Lloyd Veterinary Medical Center. Most of our faculty veterinarians are board-certified.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Board-certified veterinary specialist<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Specialists have completed an additional three to five years of training and have passed rigorous examinations to achieve certification, similar to physicians. Specialists bring a deep understanding of their field, and a knowledge of unusual or uncommon conditions in large or small animals.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Residents<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Residents are licensed veterinarians that have already completed at least one internship and are now pursuing a rigorous 3-year program to become board-certified specialists. In addition to their intensive clinical work, our residents also participate in clinical research studies and didactic learning.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Interns<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Interns are licensed veterinarians that are completing an additional year of intensive clinical training in a large referral center. During their internship, our interns rotate through various services in order to be solidly grounded in the various subspecialties of veterinary medicine.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Technicians<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Our licensed veterinary technicians (also called veterinary nurses) are veterinary health care professionals that have completed a 2 year training program from a veterinary technology school.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Students<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Under the direct guidance of faculty\/clinicians, senior veterinary medical students assist with the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Each student is closely supervised by a veterinarian in order to ensure that the student receives proper training and to provide the best possible care to patients. 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