The Atlas of Comparative Anatomy began as a class project at SUNY Oneonta in 2017 because of the lack of a comprehensive freely-accessible photographic atlas. The majority of entries in this atlas were produced by students including dissection, photography, and identification. It is a work in progress, but we hope that students of anatomy find this a useful tool for studying anatomy outside of the lab.

The authors are interested in learning who adopts this tool for their course. If you do, please email Dr. Kristen Roosa at Kristen.Roosa@oneonta.edu.

PDF version available: https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/71276

This book is aimed to guide the pre-clinical veterinary student through basic patient-side diagnostic testing procedures that accompany the in-person laboratory course.

Table of Contents:
I. Module 1: Laboratory safety
II. Module 2: Introduction to Common Fecal Diagnostic Procedures
III. Module 3: The Quantitative Fecal Exam
IV. Module 4: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
V. Module 5: Introduction to Microbiology Stains
VI. Module 6: Blood Smear Technique and Reticulocyte Counting
VII. Module 7: Hematogenous Infectious Disease
VIII. Module 8: Introduction to the Routine Urinalysis
IX. Module 9: Urine Culture and Sensitivity
X. Module 10: Veterinary Ectoparasites
XI. Module 11: Rapid Point of Care (POC) Testing
XII. Module 12: Intro to Mastitis Testing
XIII. Module 13: Intro to Dermatophytes
Glossary

Based on over 20 years of teaching experience in animal nutrition, this study guide will enhance learning basic food animal nutritional principles.

In this introductory text, six fundamental nutrients, their structure, digestion, and metabolism are covered. A brief introduction to bioenergetics, feed additives, nutrient analysis, digestive organs and processes in monogastric and ruminant animals, and methods for assessing nutrient utilization are also included.

Each chapter is illustrated with a new terms box, key points, and review questions.

This study guide is an essential learning tool for undergraduate students majoring in animal sciences, veterinary medicine, or other related disciplines.

Table of Contents
I. Introduction to Nutrition
II. Gastrointestinal Tract, Digestive Organs, and Processes
III. Carbohydrates, Structures and Types
IV. Carbohydrates, Digestion and Absorption
V. Carbohydrates, Metabolism
VI. Lipids, Structure
VII. Lipids, Digestion
VIII. Lipids, Transport, Deposition, and Metabolism
IX. Proteins
X. Proteins, Digestion and Absorption
XI. Proteins, Metabolism
XII. Proteins and Amino Acids, Quality
XIII. Vitamins
XIV. Water-Soluble Vitamins (B and C)
XV. Minerals
XVI. Microminerals
XVII. Bioenergetics
XVIII. Water in Animal Nutrition
XIX. Feed Additives
XX. Measurement of Feed and Nutrient Utilization in Food-Producing Animals

Textbook Learning Objectives

1. Use the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters as a guide for the practice of veterinary medicine in a shelter environment.
2. Develop population management practices that optimize animal wellbeing and best outcomes for homeless and sheltered animals.
3. Employ evidence-based medicine and best practices to develop cost-effective preventive healthcare, biosecurity, and public health measures.
4. Prioritize situational urgency and respond appropriately to common health threats, animal welfare issues, and animal abuse.
5. Analyze recent trends, issues, and epidemiology related to animal homelessness, and identify rational and culturally competent strategies to address these.
6. Apply key concepts crucial to the practice of Shelter Medicine, including the Five Freedoms, Fear Free principles, capacity for care, high quality high volume spay-neuter, and One Health.
7. Monitor employment opportunities for veterinarians in Shelter Medicine and analyze the training and experience needed for success in such positions.
8. Integrate factors such as time management, team leadership, workplace safety, and personal wellness associated with career satisfaction of the entire veterinary team.
9. Adapt written and oral communication and leadership styles in interactions with shelter personnel and professional peers.

Introduction to diversity of structure and function in animals at the tissue and organ system level.

This book is an introduction to the diversity of structure and function in animals at the tissue and organ system level. The focus of this book is on principles and mechanisms that sustain life and maintain homeostasis, including water balance, gas exchange, acquisition and transport of oxygen and nutrients, temperature regulation, electrical and chemical signal transmission, sensory processing, and locomotion. The content in this open textbook was adapted from other open textbooks (cc by 4.0) resources or created/written by Sanja Hinic-Frlog and collaborators. Collaborators include: Jessica Hanley, Simone Laughton, and invited undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

This textbook includes basic principles of large animal surgery and anesthesia, how to apply those principles to cases and situations, and discover ways of finding answers when you don’t remember the information, are presented with cases that aren’t “textbook” and/or things don’t go as planned.

General Surgery
General pharmacology
Equine Drugs
Food Animal Drugs
Food Animal Drug Regulations
Equine and Camelid Castration
FA youngstock processing
LA Respiratory Issues
Eye surgery
LA umbilical disorders
Bladder, Urethra and Ureters
Male urogenital surgery
Female urogenital surgery
Food/Fiber Cesarean Sections
Large animal masses
Large animal cutaneous neoplasia
Large animal wounds
Equine Oral, Esophageal and Rectal disorders
Equine Colic
FA GI Diagnostics & GI Surgery Principles
FA GI Topics
Equine Lameness
Equine podiatry
Equine joint disorders
Equine tendons and ligaments
Equine bone disorders
Equine muscle trauma
Bovine Lameness
Swine, SRC and poultry lameness
LA Orthopedic Emergencies

Also available here: https://open.lib.umn.edu/largeanimalsurgery/

We designed this book to offer a comprehensive overview of the monitoring process, from start to finish. Although there are books that deal with sampling design and the quantitative analysis of population data, there are few that provide practical advice covering the entire evolution of a monitoring plan from incorporating stakeholder input to data collection to data management and analysis to reporting. This book strives to present an overview of this process. We also acknowledge that any such effort tends to reflect the interests and expertise of the authors, and as such, there is a distinct emphasis on monitoring vertebrate populations and upland habitats. Although many of our examples tend to focus on bird populations and forested habitats, we have made an attempt to cover other taxa and habitat types as well, and many of the recommendations and suggestions that we present are applicable to a diversity of monitoring programs.

This book was written to fill a practical need and also to embrace a set of values that we hold dear. We wanted a book that could be used in a classroom because we feel that students in natural resources programs need to know how to design a monitoring program when they enter the workforce. We also realize that many former students now in the workforce did not have that training and may find this book of value to them.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Lessons Learned from Current Monitoring Programs
3. Community-Based Monitoring
4. Goals and Objectives Now and Into the Future
5. Designing a Monitoring Plan
6. Factors to Consider When Designing the Monitoring Plan
7. Putting Monitoring to Work on the Ground
8. Field Techniques for Population Sampling and Estimation
9. Techniques for Sampling Habitat
10. Database Management
11. Data Analysis in Monitoring
12. Reporting
13. Uses of the Data: Synthesis, Risk Assessment and Decision Making
14. Changing the Monitoring Approach
15. The Future of Monitoring

Table of Contents:
Module 1: Integration of shelter medical and management teams for a collaborative healthcare program
Module 2: Preventive health care and health surveillance
Module 3: Healthcare practices for common medical conditions in shelters
Module 4: Healthcare practices for common contagious infectious diseases
Module 5: Management and Prevention of Disease Outbreaks

This e-book was written to serve as a support for the teaching of the course CVM 6969: Large Animal Medicine III at the University of Minnesota.

In this e-book, swine diseases have been organized in various chapters:

Major multisystemic diseases: PRRS and PCVAD,
Respiratory diseases,
Enteric diseases in the pre-weaning pig,
Enteric diseases in the weaned pig,
Systemic diseases,
Reproductive diseases,
Skin diseases,
Transboundary diseases

This book is an attempt to connect the principles of veterinary physiology to the clinical presentation of disorders, particularly diagnostic tests and test interpretation.

I. Function and motility
II. GI Dysfunction
III. Dysphagia, Regurgitation and Vomiting
IV. Gastric and Small intestinal disorders
V. Fermentation and Lower GI disorders
VI. Digestion and Absorption Issues
VII. Liver
VIII. Pancreas

This book is a resource for veterinary students at the UMN College of Veterinary Medicine

Table of Contents

Thriving versus Surviving
Academic support
Part of a community
Health and safety
Other parts of your life
Success in clinics