Q&A
Discussion on lack of spay/neuter training in veterinary schools
2:34:20
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90 sec
Council members engage in a Q&A session with veterinarians about the limited spay/neuter training provided in veterinary schools. The discussion reveals that most veterinary students are only guaranteed to perform one full surgery during their four-year education, leaving them unprepared for extensive spay/neuter work upon graduation.
- Veterinarians explain that students often have to compete for limited spay/neuter clinic rotations
- Some schools offer more opportunities through partnerships with local shelters
- The lack of hands-on experience leads to a shortage of confident practitioners in the field
Lynn C. Schulman
2:34:20
Thank you.
2:34:21
I have a question for you.
2:34:22
My understanding is that in veterinary school, you don't get a lot of training in spraying and neutering.
2:34:28
Is that correct?
Robert F. Holden
2:34:30
Typically.
Lynn C. Schulman
2:34:32
Okay.
2:34:32
So that's something that we should look at as well.
2:34:34
Yes.
Esther Regelson
2:34:34
Absolutely.
Lynn C. Schulman
2:34:36
Can you explain that so that people kinda get a sense of it?
UNKNOWN
2:34:39
Typically, in veterinary school, students are only absolutely guaranteed to perform one full surgery throughout their 4 years before they graduate and go on to be practitioners in the field.
2:34:51
They do not feel confident or experienced enough to do this work alone, and there's not enough mentorship.
2:34:57
They need a lot more so report.
Dr. Natara Loose
2:34:59
In in my vet school, which was quite a while ago, like 21 years ago, you had a certain number of people that basically fought for a Spay Nuder clinic.
2:35:09
So your rotation would be 3 weeks in which, you know, we would do, like, up to 20 or 30 Spay Nuder's during time, but that would be, like, basically, a lottery.
2:35:16
So if you're a a fortune of that student to get that, then you would get more spayner experience.
2:35:20
But my spayner experience has come through Terra, which was up upstate, and that's where I got all my spayner experience.
2:35:27
Uh-huh.
Lynn C. Schulman
2:35:27
Do you wanna give a pin on this?
Matt Miller
2:35:30
Yeah.
2:35:30
Essentially, my experience was was pretty similar.
2:35:33
I mean, I went to vet school in the south in Auburn, Alabama, and there were quite a few shelters that were eagerly willing to offer up their stray animals for pet students practice.
2:35:42
So I didn't have the same issue getting experienced, but it is certainly true that you are not guaranteed much more than one surgery at most of that school.
Lynn C. Schulman
2:35:50
So maybe we can offline get together and talk about that and see what we could do about the veterinary schools to make sure that they have this available so that they train vets to do this so that we can get more done.
