Clinical training is centered upon specialty training in laboratory animal medicine through 1-3 month rotations. Rotations include clinical medicine, pathology, rodent health monitoring, anesthesia, biosafety, facilities, and regulatory medicine.
Residents also attend two weekly one-hour seminars that cover a variety of laboratory animal medicine, pathology, and experimental research topics as well as comparative pathology rounds. Additional areas of interest, such as facility design and management, , and fish medicine are covered and can be explored further, depending upon the interest of the resident.
The training ratio is usually 1 senior clinical veterinarian and 1 pathologist responsible for working with 2 residents at any given time. Mice and rats are the predominate species, followed by rabbits, pigs, fish, dogs, birds, ferrets, and sheep, among other less traditional models. Exposure to non-human primates is through a month rotation during clinical training at the .
In accordance with the guidelines of the training, 200 hours of instruction in the classroom; see courses. Additional 91探花 classes based on the resident’s research interest may be taken.