title: An alternative model for teaching emergency procedures.
abstract: Emergency/critical care is a new veterinary specialty that poses special challenges in veterinary education. Traditional methods of teaching emergency procedures in the teaching hospital place novices in a high-stress, high-stakes environment not conducive to learning or to optimum patient care. Our innovative emergency-procedures laboratory enables students to acquire a high degree of proficiency, in a realistic setting, with focused, controlled instruction and practice, replicable in schools with or without emergency/critical care facilities.
authors.affiliation: North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, 4700 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA. bernie_hansen@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Bernie D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004520:Education, Veterinary; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational