Report on supervised internship in veterinary medicine area of concentration: clinical medicine for small animals

Abstract

This report aims to describe the activities developed and/or monitored during the Supervised Curricular Internship in Veterinary Medicine (ECSMV) at the Federal University of Pampa, from September 12 to December 2, 2022, totaling 480 hours. The activities were developed at the Veterinary Hospital of the Regional University of the Northwest of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, in the area of small animal clinical medicine, under the supervision of Veterinarian Verônica Metz Weber and guidance of Professor Mário Celso Sperotto Brum. During the period, the hospitalization sector, clinical and emergency care, as well as imaging exams and outpatient procedures were monitored. This report will describe the activities carried out during the period. In addition, two clinical cases of greater interest will be reported, namely, hyperadrenocorticism and arterial thromboembolism secondary to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The implementation of the ECSMV in a teaching hospital provided the care of numerous clinical cases, as well as the experience of different realities of guardians. Furthermore, due to the characteristics of the place, there was some limitation in the complete monitoring of some cases.