Clinical Rotations & Pathways
The Foundation/Distribution concept also applies to the Clinical Rotations. To ensure broad preparation, each student is required to complete the same set of 12 Clinical Rotations. In addition, students must select one of 6 Clinical Pathways, comprised of 7 additional rotations. This allows students to tailor a component of their clinical training to meet their interests and professional goals.
The required Clinical Rotations are:
- Ambulatory & Production Medicine
- Community Practice Medicine
- Small Animal Medicine
- Small Animal Surgery: Soft Tissue
- Large Animal Medicine
- Large Animal Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Dermatology
- Ophthalmology
- Pathology
- Imaging
- Small (or Large) Animal Emergency and Critical Care
- Small Animal Orthopedics
The Clinical Pathways, and their associated rotations, are:
Small Animal:
- Primary Care Surgery
- Small Animal Medicine/ Clinical Neurology
- Anesthesiology
- Clinical Neurology
- Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
- Cardiology
- Oncology
Equine:
- Large Animal Medicine
- Large Animal Surgery
- Anesthesiology/Clinical Neurology
- Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care
- Large Animal Surgery
- Theriogenology
- Equine Specialty Rotation
General (Mixed):
- Clinical Neurology
- Large Animal Medicine
- Small Animal or Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care
- Ambulatory Medicine
- Large Animal Surgery
- Cardiology or Oncology
- Primary Care Surgery
Exotics Pets/SA:
- Clinical Neurology
- Primary Care Surgery
- Anesthesiology or Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
- Oncology
- Laboratory Animal Medicine/Small Animal Medicine
- Exotics/Zoo/Wildife
- Exotics/Zoo/Wildife OR Wildlife
Zoo and Wildlife:
- Small Animal Medicine
- Large Animal Medicine
- Cardiology
- Theriogenology
- Exotics/Zoo/Wildlife (2 blocks)
- Exotics/Zoo/Wildife OR Wildlife
Production Animal:
- Ambulatory Medicine (2 blocks)
- Large Animal Medicine
- Large Animal Surgery
- Special Topics in Ambulatory
- Theriogenology
- Primary Care Surgery