Royal Canin lunch talk 

They will be coming to talk to us about special diets for our surgical patients.

Location: Tait Butler

Time: February 10th at noon

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Pyxis lunch meeting

Pyxis is a new and upcoming compnay that will be coming to talk to us about their new product that is an app for surgery. They have surgeries recorded that you can watch in VR or regular 2D. They are bringing some of their models with them for us to try out! Here is their website http://www.pyxisvr.com/exero-vet

location: Tait Butler

Time : March 9th 12 pm 

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SCAVMA Sponsored Meeting- Surgical Ethics

This meeting is for the whole school and will be sponsored by SCAVMA. Get Excitied becasue we are having an interactive ethics meeting. Dr. Uri will be coming to talk to us about the ethics of cat declawing, ear clipping, and tail docking.

Location: Tait Butler Classroom

Time: April

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Enucleation Wet Lab 

Most veterinarians will perform an enucleation surgery on a patient in their career. We will be learning how to perform an enucleation procedure on cat, dog, horse, and cow heads. Once we have specimens, participants will be able to sign up for the species that they want to work on. This lab will be broken into two portions, the wet lab where the procedure will be performed and an informational lunch meeting in the week preceeding.

location: 2nd year MDL

Time: Febuary/March

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Nutramaxx

Nutramaxx Laboratories will be coming to speak with us about their joint supplements for dogs and cats. How exciting that we get to have a company created by a Mississippi State graduate come talk to us about their products. 

Location: TBA

TIme : April 

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Welcome Meeting 

This meeting will be a chance to get to meet the officers and hear about the plans we have made for the year.   We will also be electing a freshman representative. We will be spliting this time with VBM so you get two meetings in the time of one!

Location: Tait butler

Time: August 2nd, 12pm

 

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Physical Exam Lab 

Physical exam is a mainstay  of veterinary medicine. Learn the basics of a physical exam for small animals. the lab will be taught by Dr. Cade and Dr. Grady at the end of the large animal corridor at 11 am.  Everyone is invited to this lab, Please RSVP and say whether you can bring your dog or cat to be examined.

Location: end of large animal corridor in CVM

Time:  Saturday September 17th 11am

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Bandage Lab 

Surgeons often bandage limbs post-surgically. In this lab we will learn the basics of post-surgical bandage application, as well as the basics of casting. We will be asking the 1st year class to allow us to use their cadaver dogs to practice bandaging or using models.

Location: 1st Year MDL

Time: October 20th 5:30pm

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Food animal surgery meeting

This meeting will be a lunch meeting with Dr. Grissett, a food animal clinicians. She will be discussing topics on different surgeries that are performed on some of the food animal species. She will also present some interesting cases she has seen in her career.

location: Tait Butler

Time: October 21st 12pm



Suture Lab

Suturing is the basis of surgery. This lab is designed to teach suture patterns used in common surgical procedures as well as an introduction to sterile procedure. Participants will be split into  two groups: beginners and advanced. Suture pads, suture and needle drivers will be provided. Please bring the forceps and scissors from your dissection kits. Videos are provided in the educational content button at the bottom of the page. Please watch the videos before coming to the lab.

Location: Cafeteria

Time: November 2nd 5:30

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HemaBlock Meeting 

HemaBlock is a great new product produced by Vet Brands International. It is a revolutionary hemostatic powder used in wound management and during surgery. Our area representative is coming to speak to the surgery club about the product! they also have lots of educational materials, free samples, and freebies  http://www.hemablock.com/ 

Location: Tait Butler

Time: November 10th 12pm

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