Teaching

With this option, you can choose between a 4-week and a 16-week ("splitable") internship

• Collaboration in the clinic, insight into all areas
  • aseptic surgery
  • septic surgery
  • Treatment and ward rounds
  • Participation in herd health visits
• great to get a feel for medicine in the cattle sector and if you are unsure whether you want to take the clinical exam on cattle

Good choice! 10 weeks cattle full speed ahead

Go through our programme at the Clinic for Cattle and take the clinical examinations of the state examination on the animal species cattle!

The programme is structured as follows

1. daily from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. participation in clinical activities in the relevant departments (more details below)
2. from 2 pm practical courses (e.g. suturing or surgical exercises) but also intensive theory to work through the cases in the clinic
3. every Friday a cross-section on a topic relevant to cattle with many perspectives through the participation of other institutes in the event
4. Excursions with the herd management team
5. Participation in the night shift

Orthopaedics & septic surgery

• Orthopaedics
  • • Lameness diagnostics // (including X-ray and ultrasound)
    • Claw care with knife and angle grinder
    • Exposing and relieving defects in the claw area (including block gluing)
    • Joint puncture and irrigation
    • Wrapping of bandages
    • Fracture treatment
  • Septic surgery
    • Claw amputation, claw joint resection
    • Cleavage of abscesses / treatment of wounds
    • Tail amputations
  • Ultrasound diagnostics / endoscopy

Treatment

Here you will work directly on the animal and treat our patients together with our assistant doctors, student assistants and animal carers!

In this way you will expand your skills on animals and at the same time learn more about the treatment methods and possibilities on cattle.

Aseptic surgery

Here you will be in the operating theatre with us and take part in the operation.

You will learn more about the possibilities of anaesthesia in cattle, why it is better to operate on cows in standing position and gain your first insights into aseptic surgery in large ruminants through direct participation in the operations!

We operate:

• Laparotomies (from the left and right) with indication:
  • Diagnostic
  • Abomasal displacements (to the left or right)
  • Caecotomy
  • Intestinal resection / intestinal obstruction
  • Caesarean section
  • Ruminotomy
• Teat surgery
  • Open and closed amputations
  • Surgical and conservative treatment of teat injuries
  • Teat stenosis
• Bulbous evisceration
• Endoscopic abomasal fixation according to Jannowitz

Clinical Rounds

Take part in the ward round and ask our ward round leaders questions (or let them ask you questions...)!

This will give you a better insight into the diagnostic approach and possible therapies, but you will also see the cow as it progresses and evaluate the animal's condition every day.

We believe that everyone who goes through our PJ cycle and later works in cattle practice should be able to perform a caesarean section and a ruminotomy.

1. For every 4-5 PJ students, we buy a cow in labour, monitor her closely until she gives birth and then you perform a caesarean section and care for the calf on your own (we are there, of course).
2. For every 4-5 PJ students, we buy a cow on which you perform a ruminotomy independently
3. We also take you to Ruthe, our Research and Teaching Farm, every Wednesday - there you can carry out hoof care and other procedures on your own at a tiltable operating table and a  hoof trimming stand. We will of course accompany and advise you.

In addition to these special features and case discussions with presentations of current cases from the clinic, you will also attend the following courses:

In our interdisciplinary classes, we give you an in-depth look at selected topics in cattle medicine and also put ligth on them by different views of specialists from other institutes - this gives you an even better overview of these topics

Here you will travel to dairy farms with the herd management team and carry out routine examinations as well as, for example, hygiene scorings, assess the milking procedure, evaluate husbandry conditions and evaluate other areas on the farm.

As a result, you will learn more about cattle as animals a part of a dairy herd and become more familiar with the aspects that you need to consider as a vet on a farm and that can affect an individual animal or an entire herd of cattle.

During this time, you are not in the clinic during the day - but exciting things also happen here at night. From 5 p.m. until the next morning, you will live in our PJ flat, help with evening treatment, but also experience the care of emergency patients and be actively involved in decision-making and therapy.