Veterinary assistants are becoming more important as valued members of the
veterinary health care team in today's modern practices. This one-year program
prepares you to support veterinary technicians and veterinarians in a veterinary
practice.
Duties performed by veterinary assistants include animal restraint,
preparing animals for surgery, care of surgical instruments and other equipment,
care and feeding of in-patients, processing radiographs, and front office
procedures. Veterinary assistants are not trained to give injections, take blood
samples, perform laboratory procedures, administer anesthetics, monitor patients
during anesthesia or assist in surgery.