On a nice, cool morning in November, OSU vet med students gathered at beautiful Vintage Farms in Estacada, Oregon to participate in a castration clinic conducted by Dr. David Asmar of Eagle Fern Equine Hospital. This opportunity for hands-on learning was made possible when Dawn Sayles, who raises championship mini horses at Vintage Farms, approached […]
Archive for the ‘Clinics’ Category
Equine Vet Mentors OSU Students
Monday, January 27th, 2014Labrador Retriever Hunts People For Fun
Thursday, November 14th, 2013Meet the new face of the College of Veterinary Medicine: Lani McIlroy. Lani is a seven year old Labrador Retriever with a gentle, quiet personality, whose photo (taken by VTH Associate Director Ron Mandsager) is now featured on the college Facebook page banner. But what makes her a rock star is her ‘job’ with the […]
Camelid Class Attracts Students From Across U.S. and Canada
Friday, September 20th, 2013The OSU llama teaching herd provided good animal-handling experience for DVM students who attended this summer’s Camelid Medicine course. The teaching herd llamas are bigger than average because they serve as blood donors for the hospital. They are also on the older side and pretty clever. In order to practice hoof trimming and dental care, and administer […]
Partnership With Humane Society Celebrates Sixth Anniversary
Thursday, September 19th, 2013Almost 70,000 surgeries, and over 24,000 medical exams later, CVM is joining the Oregon Humane Society in celebrating six productive years of partnership at the Animal Medical Learning Center. Every week, for six years, there have been at least three OSU veterinary students on rotation at the AMLC helping with the tens of thousands of […]
New Equine Medicine Video
Friday, February 22nd, 2013The Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital now has a pair of videos on their website. The Small Animal Hospital video takes the viewer on a tour of the hospital from a dog’s-eye point of view, and has been on the website for nearly a year. Just last week, a new video featuring equine […]
School Mascot Has Surgery at CVM
Monday, January 14th, 2013Sparky is a crowd favorite at the Chintimini Wildlife Center (CWC) near Corvallis where the bald eagle participates in education programs. Rescued as a juvenile, his congenital feather disease prevents him from flying so he is unable to hunt. In 2005, Sparky was adopted by Mountain View Elementary as their school mascot. They even wrote […]
