Texas A&M Student Chapter of the Student Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (SVECCS)
Purpose
The purpose of the Texas A&M Student Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (SVECCS) is to advance student knowledge and interest in veterinary emergency medicine and critical care.
About
What is veterinary emergency & critical care?
Emergency & critical care veterinarians, technicians and staff work 24/7 with all of the cases that are considered too complicated or extreme for standard private practices: snakebites, chemical burns, toxin ingestions, GDVs, traumas, seizures, shock and more.
Emergency veterinarians usually work at either specialty clinics (like 24 hour/7 days per week veterinary ERs and ICUs) or do relief work at veterinary private practices on nights/weekends. They specialize in handling cases that standard veterinary private practices don’t have the time or resources to take care of.
Why should you join SVECCS?
SVECCS tries to give members a glimpse into what “a day in the life” of emergency & critical care medicine is all about. Even people who don’t specifically want to be emergency veterinarians say that SVECCS is helpful… because you never know when an emergency case could walk into your private practice. It’s helpful to know how to stabilize emergencies (so that they can be sent elsewhere) or even treat them yourself!
Opportunities:
- SVECCS members get to sign up to shadow emergency vets, techs, and 4VMs; and vet students in the Texas A&M Small Animal Teaching Hospital’s ICU and Triage Wards.
- First Aid Seminar & CE Conferences — SVECCS members help put on local events such as the First Aid Seminar and volunteer at emergency & critical care continuing education conferences throughout the year such as IVECCs.
- Networking opportunities with emergency clinicians and intern recruiters.
- Attending the IVECCS Conferences every year. If you help work it, you can get your registration fees waived and attend lectures, exhibitors, events, lunches/dinners for free!
Schedule
List meetings and events for the year or semester
Texas A&M SVECCS Leadership
List of current officers
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