Spring 2019 EPDC Extracurricular Grant Awardees - Day 1

SAVMA has many opportunities for your school to apply for grants in order to fund cool wet labs or awesome events! Over the next three days, we will be highlighting what schools did that won the EPDC Extracurriculr Grant. As always, check out the SAVMANews every month to see all the incredible grant opportunities!

This November, the Student Veterinary Surgical Society at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine put on a lunch talk and accompanying wet-lab on the topic of 3D printing and modeling in small animal orthopedics. The lunch talk presented by Dr. W. Michael Karlin was attended by over 70 students and covered different scenarios in which he and other orthopedic surgeons have used 3D printing to prepare for surgery or supply prosthetics for patients. In the wet lab, 35 students had the opportunity to practice placing pins and cerclage wire to stabilize fractures using 3D printed models of dog limbs. The majority of the students who attended the lab were in their pre-clinical years, and, therefore, had limited opportunity to learn and practice said techniques otherwise. This grant was tremendously appreciated by all the students that were able to benefit from it and the supplies it provided. Thank you, SAVMA!

Auburn University World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association (WAVMA) members were able to participate in a dolphin necropsy of a juvenile male bottlenose dolphin that stranded in Mobile, Alabama. Students not only observed, but participated in the necropsy, learning about dolphin anatomy, pathology, and regulations concerning marine mammal strandings.