Spring 2027

Large Animal Surgery: Orthopedic and Soft Tissue

Large animal surgery course covering examination techniques, diagnostics, and procedures for equine and food animal orthopedic and soft tissue conditions.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sabrina Brounts

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.04 GPA, 23.2% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.16 GPA, 38.3% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize key concepts in large animal surgery, including but not limited to common signalments, relevant history, risk factors, diagnostic methods, and pathophysiology for commonly encountered diseases in upper airway surgery, urogenital surgery, orthopedic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, wounds and laceration care.

  • Describe the basic elements of lameness evaluation, localization, and diagnosis in the horse.

  • Explain specific treatment options, both surgical and non-surgical, for common diseases including potential benefits and complications associated with prescribed therapeutics.

  • Describe factors that contribute to outcomes and prognosis for specific large animal patients and surgical procedures.

  • Apply concepts of anatomy, diagnostic imaging, clinical pathology and other relevant areas, to the evaluation, treatment, and prognosis of large animals with surgical conditions.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing
SURGSCI 631

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.04 GPA, 23.2% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.16 GPA, 38.3% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SABRINA BROUNTS is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.04 GPA, 23.2% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.16 GPA, 38.3% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Upper airway, urogenital, orthopedic, gastrointestinal surgery, and wound care
  • Equine lameness evaluation and diagnosis
  • Equine and food animal patient populations

Skills

  • Examination techniques, diagnostic aids, and surgical procedures for equine and food animal systems
  • Lameness evaluation, localization, and diagnosis in the horse
  • Surgical and non-surgical treatment options, benefits, and complications
  • Application of anatomy, diagnostic imaging, and clinical pathology to surgical cases

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
SURGSCI 631 · Spring 2027

Large Animal Surgery: Orthopedic and Soft Tissue

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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