Students in the online Veterinary Orthopedics Internship will learn and practice the fundamentals of orthopedic surgical techniques, fracture management, and physical therapy through live demonstrations and vet-taught case studies on avian and small exotic species at a local wildlife clinic in Belize.  

Interns will learn to: 
- Understand the musculoskeletal system of small exotics 
- Properly restrain exotics 
- Apply radiology principles to orthopedics 
- Perform physical and orthopedic examinations 
- Reduce, stabilize, and repair fractures 
- Care for wounds 
- Utilize complementary diagnostic tools to assess orthopedic ailments (blood sampling, blood smear reading, red and white blood cell counts, fluorescein, parasitological) 
- Select drugs in orthopedic treatment 
- Recognize metabolic problems associated with orthopedics 
- Perform physical therapy (use of a goniometer) 
- Use newly acquired knowledge to interpret real-time cases 
- Make highly informed diagnosis decisions 
- Provide clinical care, rehabilitation, and release for exotic species

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