Veternary Assistant Diploma

College/School: Ashworth College

Soon, you could be training to learn the exciting skills of a veterinary assistant. Ashworth Career School's convenient home study course in animal science is designed to help prepare you for a career in a veterinarian's practice, animal hospital, animal shelter, pet store, horse farm, ranch, wildlife or livestock program, or zoo. And there are no educational or experience prerequisites to enroll.

This nationally accredited distance learning diploma program teaches professional-level veterinary assisting techniques in twenty-two comprehensive lessons. Key topics include: the physical exam; giving tests and recording results; vaccines; "nose-to-tail" exam procedures; and more. You'll also learn how injured or sick animals communicate, and what animals are trying to tell us. Then, you'll learn about behavior and physical restraint; house-training; preventing destructive behavior; and restraining animals.

Next, you'll find out about pathology, disease, and injuries, with lessons covering emergency care; the immune response; epidemiology; infection; using bandages, splints, and casts; managing wounds; the healing process; food hygiene; and more. And we'll teach you about pharmacology; dispensing medication; drug actions; diagnostic imaging; taking and evaluating blood, urine, tissue, and other samples; anesthesia; quality control; and more. You'll also learn about common surgical techniques, animal dentistry, nutrition, working with older animals, breeding and nursing of dogs, cats, horses, birds, fish, small mammals, reptiles, and exotics, and caring for wildlife.

You need no special educational background or experience in the animal science field to enroll. Convenient home study training from Ashworth makes learning animal science field easy and fun. Request Free Information Package for more information.