Spring 2027

Large Animal Surgery: Clinical Rotation

Clinical rotation in large animal surgery at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital covering admission, examination, preoperative care, surgical procedures, and postoperative management with hands-on service experience.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jordan KirkpatrickKayla LeSabrina Brounts

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Effectively communicate patient signalment and pertinent case information to colleagues to develop a differential diagnosis

  • Select, perform, and interpret pre- and post-operative diagnostic tests

  • Integrate findings from patient history, physical exam, and tests and imaging to formulate comprehensive diagnostic and treatment plans for surgical patients

  • Describe basic surgical principles in large animal surgery such as wound management and common surgical procedures

  • Recognize situational limitations or indications for patient referral to a specialist

  • Describe introductory level of knowledge in equine lameness including the basic elements of lameness evaluation, nerve blocks, etc.

  • Document procedures and treatments in medical records, treatment sheets, and surgical reports

  • Create patient discharge instructions using appropriate language for client communication, understanding, and compliance

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing
SURGSCI 642

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JORDAN KIRKPATRICK is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KAYLA LE is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

SABRINA BROUNTS is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 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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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
FLD 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1000
FLD 002Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Large animal admission, examination, preoperative and postoperative management, and surgical procedures.
  • Basic surgical principles including wound management and common procedures.
  • Equine lameness evaluation and nerve blocks.
  • Pre- and post-operative diagnostic testing.

Skills

  • Admission, examination, preoperative management, surgical procedures, and postoperative management of large animals.
  • Selecting, performing, and interpreting pre- and post-operative diagnostic tests.
  • Describing basic surgical principles including wound management and common surgical procedures.
  • Introductory knowledge in equine lameness including lameness evaluation and nerve blocks.
  • Communicating patient signalment and case information to colleagues for differential diagnosis.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
SURGSCI 642 · Spring 2027

Large Animal Surgery: Clinical Rotation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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