Program Learning Outcomes are what we expect each student will learn while earning a degree or certificate. Meeting these learning outcomes is how we assess our performance as a college. Our learning outcomes support both important career skills and future success as a student.
Upon completing the Veterinary Technology (AAS) program, CMC students will be able to:
- Participate in facility management utilizing traditional and electronic media and appropriate veterinary medical terminology and abbreviations.
- Safely and effectively administer prescribed drugs to patients.
- Demonstrate and perform patient assessment techniques in a variety of animal species.
- Safely and effectively manage and maintain patients in all phases of anesthesia.
- Demonstrate knowledge of routine surgical procedures and related equipment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of proper handling, packaging, and storage of specimens for laboratory analysis to ensure safety of patients, clients, and staff.
- Safely and effectively produce diagnostic radiographic and non-radiographic images.
- Safely and effectively handle common laboratory animals used in animal research.
- Provide safe and effective care for birds, reptiles, amphibians, guinea pugs, hamsters, gerbils, and ferrets.
Colorado Mountain College Veterinary Technician is an American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) accredited Career Technical Education program.
