Events

Meetings

SVECCS sponsors a monthly lunch seminar (food provided!) during which a faculty member or other speaker presents information on an emergency and critical care-related topic. Membership is not required to attend rounds, just show up and enjoy the cases!!!

Fall 2011 Rounds & Meetings

Wetlabs

SVECCS hosts one wetlab per semester. Wetlabs are usually held on weekends during the day, and they afford an excellent opportunity for members to learn techniques important in emergency medicine. Previous topics have included bandaging and casting techniques, blood typing and other laboratory procedures, emergency examinations, and emergency procedures such as venous cutdowns, chest tube placement, intubation, and tracheotomies. Students practice and refine their skills on cadavers and student animals (the choice of subjects depending, of course, on the nature of the lab), getting valuable hands-on practice.

This semester's wetlab will be held November 6th... stay tuned!

Emergency Rounds

Emergency rounds are weekly, informal, interactive sessions in which students are presented an emergency case by a clinician and asked to provide a diagnostic and therapeutic plan. Rounds provide an opportunity to apply our basic "classroom" knowledge to a clinical situation. See above for dates.

First Aid Seminar for the Public

For more information please contact SVECCS@cvm.tamu.edu

National Convention

The Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society holds an annual convention, IVECCS, every fall. Student members of VECCS are welcome to volunteer at this event in exchange for free admission to the conference. The International Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Symposium presents topics ranging from fluid therapy to bandaging, and sessions encompass small animal, equine, and exotic emergency medicine.

Next year's convention will be held September 8-15, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, Texas. We hope many students will participate!!!