Veterinary Simulator Industries
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We manufacture best-in-class simulators that allow veterinary students to become proficient in their diagnostic and practical skills without the need to endanger or cause unnecessary discomfort to live animals. Our simulators intersect with curriculum requirements to provide maximum benefits to students and educators.
Veterinary Simulator Industries
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Simulation-based education has been a foundational part of my education at WSU. I learned so much about problem solving, receiving and applying feedback, and building a community within a larger community.”
–Ellen Harris, ’23 DVM
The Clinical Simulation Center is open to all WSU veterinary students, interns, residents, and faculty. Students and veterinarians have access to some of the most advanced medical models to learn new skills and polish current skills. The center provides a positive, enriching, and supportive educational environment for the advancement of veterinary care.
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“Simulation-based education is a key component to training some of the most prepared and competent veterinary graduates in the country. We use simulation to enhance student exposure and experience, building their confidence and increasing patient safety.”
-Dr. Julie Cary, director of the Simulation-Based Education program?
Simulation-based education is essential for training the most prepared and competent veterinary graduates in the country. Simulation is used routinely to train human medical doctors, and WSU is a leader in advancing technical and clinical simulation training for veterinaria ..read more
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MANHATTAN — The term "hands-on" has recently reached a whole new level at Kansas State University's Beef Cattle Institute.
The center, housed at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine, purchased a dystocia simulator cow and calf to help teach and demonstrate the birthing process. Visitors to the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, where the new simulator has been displayed to the public, are already getting their own in-depth experience.
Developed by Veterinary Simulator Industries and the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada, the equipment was purchased with the initial goal to cr ..read more
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Agnes is used by the College of Western Veterinary Medicine to teach students and cattle producers about the birthing process. (Samanda Brace/CBC)
Meet Agnes — she's a full-size cow, with a working udder, a uterus and a full-size calf but she's not quite a real cow.
Instead, the bovine specimen is used to educate veterinary students and cattle producers about the cattle birthing process.
"We can actually use her, mainly to educate ... in the birthing process, and how to deal with any sort of malpresentations at the birthing time," said Chris Clark, associate dean of the college of v ..read more
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Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s Clinical Skills Laboratory recently acquired a life-size palpation cow that will provide veterinary medicine and veterinary nursing students more life-like learning opportunities. The Hereford Model Dystocia Simulator, like many other animal models in the lab, was purchased through an instructional equipment grant.
With the model, DVM and veterinary nursing students will be able to learn about uterine palpation, and how to assist during a bovine dystocia. The model allows students to practice placing obstetric chains and manipulating abnormal calf presenta ..read more
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The Hereford Dystocia Simulator is used to simulate difficult births in cows.
Fairgoers can visit a life-like cow birth simulator at the Oklahoma State Fair and learn how veterinarians and livestock producers help heifers and cows through difficult births.
Beyond thrilling rides and mouth-watering fair food, the Oklahoma State Fair showcases agricultural exhibits for fairgoers to learn from and enjoy.
Oklahoma State University Extension’s display of its Hereford Dystocia Simulator is one example of an educational opportunity available to visit at the fair. The life-like beef cow device, made ..read more
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A group of first-year veterinary students gather around a life-sized black plastic horse, holding up what looks like a large piece of intestine.
“Wow! Cool!” exclaim several students as Dr. Julia Montgomery demonstrates the digestive system inside the equine model. This isn’t just any horse. It’s an advanced equine simulator, made possible by a $50,000 donation from the Equine Foundation of Canada (EFC).
Montgomery is an assistant professor of large animal medicine and a board-certified specialist of large animal internal medicine at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). The stu ..read more
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One of only three cow simulators in Australia is helping agriculture students at South West TAFE to hone their skills before handling live animals.
The new $70,000 simulator and accessories will give students experience in pulling a calf on a realistic and life-size cow before their first live procedure.
South West TAFE Agriculture teacher Rebecca Toleman said she was extremely excited to be teaching students using this new technology.
“We are so fortunate to be the only trainers in Victorian offering this technology and our students are so lucky to be able to learn techniques on this state-o ..read more
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“Frosty” has taken up permanent residency in the Clinical Skills Laboratory in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Frosty’s new address has been made possible through gifts by several individuals, including several from the Class of ’75.
The life-size Holstein dystocia simulator is the centerpiece of the Clinical Skills Laboratory, a facility created to provide opportunities for students to become more confident about any number of procedures. The lab solves an age-old dilemma on having student veterinarians gain experience in the profession before treating a live animal for the very first ..read more
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The RVC Animal Care Trust has awarded a grant of almost £31,000 to fund a bovine calving simulator. The simulator, based at the Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Boltons Park Farm and equipped with a functional udder, will offer improved learning opportunities to veterinary students before working with live animals.
The life-sized calving simulator has multiple uses for teaching and learning at the RVC. Using the simulator, veterinary students can learn calving in a hands-on manner without the need for working on a live animal. In addition, students can learn rectal palpation and the simulato ..read more