Spring 2019 EPDC Extracurricular Grant Awardees - Day 3

At Mizzou, we were able to host BOTH the Veterinary Nutrition Club and the Student Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society with the support from this grant!  We started with a lecture from Dr. Jenny Grither about feeding critical care patients, then split into small groups to discuss case examples and practice placing NG tubes in 3D printed models.  Students not only got the opportunity to practice technical skills, but also went home with a packet of information on currently available commercial critical care options and sample cases.  The event was a huge success, thank you!

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!