VTMED 6754

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  • Schedule of Classes - September 22, 2025 1:06PM EDT

VTMED 6754
Small Animal Euthanasia: Clinical Communications and Practice

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

If you are feeling uncomfortable, unprepared, or worried about discussing and performing euthanasia, you are not alone; and this course is for you. Or, if you just want to experience discussing and practicing performing euthanasia before having to provide this essential procedure for a client and their loved one, this is the course you want. A survey of veterinary schools found that the majority of veterinarians are still learning the procedure or seeing it for the first-time post-graduation (Cooney et al, 2021). It seems that, at most, only 25% of veterinary students graduate with first-hand euthanasia experience (McVety, 2017). This course is meant to improve those numbers here at Cornell. Through immersive laboratories and active-learning-focused lectures, students will (1) expand their knowledge and (2) refine clinical communication and practical skills as they relate to veterinary euthanasia of small animals.


Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: third-year veterinary students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Four Week - Fourth.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory.

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  •  9976 VTMED 6754   LEC 001

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    • M
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Hirsch, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9977 VTMED 6754   LAB 401

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    • T
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Carney, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9978 VTMED 6754   LAB 403

  •  
    • W
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Carney, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9979 VTMED 6754   LAB 405

  •  
    • W
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Hirsch, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9980 VTMED 6754   LAB 406

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    • F
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Hirsch, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9997 VTMED 6754   LAB 407

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    • W
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Thompson, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10002 VTMED 6754   LAB 408

  •  
    • W
    • Apr 20 - May 15, 2026

    • Thompson, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person