Maple Stirrup is helping students in her new home.

Maple Stirrup is helping students in her new home – the Ontario Vet College – learn about colic in horses, reproduction, as well as IM injections and venipuncture.

Student veterinarians have embraced learning with the model since it was incorporated into the DVM curriculum in the fall 2018 semester. The detailed model, produced by Canada’s Veterinary Simulator Industries, allows them to practice clinical and technical skills, vital to improving confidence and competence. 

“Students appreciate the chance to learn on the model first,” says Dr. Tracey Chenier, a theriogenologist and professor in OVC’s Department of Population Medicine. “They are able to watch a clinician palpate to see how it is done by viewing through the model’s opening, and then are able to figure out where to find the uterus and ovaries and experience what they will feel in the model, before going to the live mare.” 

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