The VM 612 – 616 clinical practice courses are taken during 26 two-week time frames called “blocks” which are labeled A – Z.  Rotations starting with “UI” are associated with the College while rotations starting with “OC” are off-campus and not hosted by the College.  Off Campus rotations and the required paperwork for each are described below, under “Free Elective Rotations”.

 

REQUIRED ROTATIONS = 26 BLOCKS:

UI Anesthesia – 1 block

  • Synopsis of UI Anesthesia Rotation
  • UI Anesthesia and Pain Management Guidelines
  • Orientation for students assigned the UI rotation is held online, starting promptly at 7:30am on the first day of rotation. Please attend this orientation remotely from your personal home space in the VTH. The link to the online session can be accessed through the Compass website under the course 612-616 Clinical Anesthesia Rotation. Click the “Live Session” link in the left navigation panel to join us – see you then!
  • Glasgow Pain Scales for Dogs and Cats

UI Anesthesia / UI Small Animal Internal Medicine – 1 block

All students are required to take 3 weeks of UI Anesthesia and 3 weeks of UI Small Animal Internal Medicine consisting of 1 block of UI Anesthesia, 1 block of UI Small Animal Internal Medicine and 1 block of UI Anesthesia/UI Small Animal Internal Medicine.

This split block completes the required third week of each service and is comprised of 1 week of UI Anesthesia and 1 week of UI Small Animal Internal Medicine.  

  • UI Anesthesia and UI Small Animal Internal Medicine must be taken prior to UI Anesthesia/UI Small Animal Internal Medicine
  • Each week of this split block is scheduled by ASA.
  • Students will report to the service scheduled in their respective week.

UI Diagnostic Medicine – 2 (consecutive) blocks 

All students take 2 blocks of UI Diagnostic Medicine consecutively as a single unit.

UI Equine Medicine – 1 block

UI Equine Surgery – 1 block

UI Imaging – 1 block

UI Integrated Food Animal Management Systems (IFAMS) – 1 block

  • Synopsis of UI Integrated Food Animal Management Systems
  • Orientation for students assigned to the IFAMS rotation is held at 8:45 a.m. in the Large Animal Receiving area on the first day of the rotation. Students will be sent several files and an ER schedule to review prior to the beginning of the rotation. Students will be assigned to either the ambulatory or in-house IFAMS service during orientation.

Split Blocks:

  • Students taking a 2-week off-campus food animal rotation at another university that is off sequence with our blocks can split a UI IFAMS block so that the UI IFAMS weeks fall before and after the scheduled off campus rotation.
  • Students taking a 3-week off-campus food animal rotation at another university can use one week of a UI IFAMS block with one week of the off sequence week of the off-campus rotation.

UI Small Animal Emergency Medicine – 1 block

  • Synopsis of UI Small Animal Emergency Medicine Rotation
  • Orientation for students assigned to the UI Small Animal ER Medicine rotation begins at 7:00 a.m. for DAY students and 4:00 p.m. for NIGHT students in the Emergency and Critical Care Seminar room (SAC 154).
  • All blocks to be scheduled.  

UI Small Animal Internal Medicine – 1 block

  • Must be taken prior to the UI Anesthesia/UI Small Animal Internal Medicine split block rotation.
  • Synopsis of UI Small Animal Internal Medicine* 

UI Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery – 1 block

UI Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery – 1 block

UI Emergency Care Option – 1 block

  • Students must choose one of the following UI rotations:
    • UI Small Animal Emergency
    • UI Equine Medicine
    • UI Equine Surgery
    • UI IFAMS
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UI Primary Care Option – 1 block

  • Students must choose one of the following UI rotations:
    • UI Primary Care – UIUC
    • UI Primary Care in Chicago
    • UI ZCAMS
      • UI ZCAMS Rotation Guidelines
      • The Virtual Learning Environment for this rotation can be accessed on Compass, under the course entitled “OPEN LEARNING – VM 612-616 Zoological Companion Animals Medicine and Surgery”
      • Orientation for students assignd to the UI ZCAMS rotation is held in the Zoological Medicine Round Room (VMSC 180) on 9:00 a.m. the first Monday of the rotation.
      • Maximum = 5 students/block
    • UI Equine Primary Care

The purpose of Directed Elective rotations is to guide students in choosing from a limited pool of specialty rotations according to their species of interest.  Because on-campus caseload for certain species is limited, some off campus rotations are permitted for non-small animal species. 

  • A Directed Elective rotation option may only be taken once as a Directed Elective rotation.  If a Directed Elective rotation option is scheduled more than once, the first scheduled rotation will be applied as the Directed Elective rotation option and the second scheduled rotation will be counted as a Free Elective rotation.
  • A single UI or Off-campus Directed Elective rotation of 2 to 3 blocks in duration counts as 2 or 3 blocks, respectively.
  • A maximum of 3 off-campus blocks may be applied toward Directed Elective rotations.
  • Off-campus Directed Elective rotations must be directed toward the student’s non-small animal professional area(s) of interest (e.g. equine practice and food animal practice).  Students must seek advice from faculty and other professionals in their area(s) of interest when choosing off-campus Directed Elective rotations.
  • No off-campus small animal rotations are permitted as Directed Elective rotations.

Students must choose from the following Directed Elective rotation options:

 

Any UI Core or UI Directed Elective rotation may also be repeated one time as a Free Elective.  The following UI Associated Electives may also be taken. 

Any of the following types of OC rotations may be taken as Free Electives:

All students have four Off Blocks (8 weeks total).

  • Off Blocks are assigned by the Office of Academic & Student Affairs.
  • Students who must have particular blocks off due to scheduled commitments will have the opportunity to request this during the scheduling process. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Split Blocks:

  • Students taking off campus rotations that are out of synch with our blocks must split an off block with the off campus rotation (i.e., take first week of off block, 2 weeks of off campus rotation, and second week of off block).
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