1Demonstrate safe and appropriate administration of medications via IV to dogs, cats, food animals, and horses.

2Demonstrate ability to perform biopsies of dogs, cats, food animals, and horses and to submit specimen to the diagnostic laboratory.

3Demonstrate ability to perform basic regional anesthetic techniques.

4Demonstrate understanding of the anatomy of, types of, and testing of anesthetic machines.

5Demonstrate understanding and use of various feeding tubes in small animals.

6Demonstrate ability to properly position small animals for radiographs of limbs.

7Demonstrate ability to correctly operate fluid and syringe pumps.

8Demonstrate understanding of FAMACHA scoring.

9Demonstrate ability to place nasal oxygen cannula, perform nebulization, and coupage.

10Demonstrate ability to perform end-tidal CO2 monitoring.

11Demonstrate ability to pass orogastric tubes and esophageal feeders on ruminant models.

12Demonstrate ability to perform injections and venipuncture on live animals both small and large.

13Demonstrate ability to establish rapport with a client in an emergency situation.

14Demonstrate ability to communicate appropriately in situations involving ethical issues.

15Demonstrate understanding of educational debt to income level and options to manage educational debt repayment.

16Demonstrate understanding of appropriate reporting of reportable diseases and foreign animal disease investigations.