The Clinical Simulation Center is open to all WSU veterinary students, interns, residents, and faculty. Students and veterinarians have access to some of the most advanced medical models to learn new skills and polish current skills. The center provides a positive, enriching, and supportive educational environment for the advancement of veterinary care.

Simulation-based education is essential for training the most prepared and competent veterinary graduates in the country. Simulation is used routinely to train human medical doctors, and WSU is a leader in advancing technical and clinical simulation training for veterinarians.

Our program offers an integrated approach to simulated medical and communication training. From basic suturing skills to client communication to fully integrated simulations to experience the spectrum of care, we provide hands-on opportunities to learn and practice necessary veterinary skills.

The center, housed at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine, purchased a dystocia simulator cow and calf to help teach and demonstrate the birthing process. Visitors to the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, where the new simulator has been displayed to the public, are already getting their own in-depth experience.

Meet Agnes — she's a full-size cow, with a working udder, a uterus and a full-size calf but she's not quite a real cow.

Instead, the bovine specimen is used to educate veterinary students and cattle producers about the cattle birthing process.

Purdue Veterinary Medicine’s Clinical Skills Laboratory recently acquired a life-size palpation cow that will provide veterinary medicine and veterinary nursing students more life-like learning opportunities. The Hereford Model Dystocia Simulator, like many other animal models in the lab, was purchased through an instructional equipment grant.

Fairgoers can visit a life-like cow birth simulator at the Oklahoma State Fair and learn how veterinarians and livestock producers help heifers and cows through difficult births.

Beyond thrilling rides and mouth-watering fair food, the Oklahoma State Fair showcases agricultural exhibits for fairgoers to learn from and enjoy.

Montgomery is an assistant professor of large animal medicine and a board-certified specialist of large animal internal medicine at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). The students pepper her with questions as they feel inside the model to understand how the internal organs fit together.

ATLANTIC, Iowa – A short course that combines classroom learning and hands-on instruction will be offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Jan. 27. The course will instruct cattlemen and women in areas specific to beef calving management, cow nutrition and financial management.

One of only three cow simulators in Australia is helping agriculture students at South West TAFE to hone their skills before handling live animals.

The new $70,000 simulator and accessories will give students experience in pulling a calf on a realistic and life-size cow before their first live procedure.

South West TAFE Agriculture teacher Rebecca Toleman said she was extremely excited to be teaching students using this new technology.

MARSHFIELD, Wis. – When it comes to cows calving on a dairy farm, the list of potential problems is long and varied. While more often than not, things go right, there is always the possibility that abnormal presentations or other problems could arise, requiring a dairy farmer to make decisions about when and how to assist the cow, or call in a veterinarian. With the assistance of a life-like, life-size Holstein cow and calf, Mid-State Technical College in Marshfield, Wis., is helping students, and eventually others in their community, be prepared to handle a variety of circumstances they might face in the maternity pen.

“Frosty” has taken up permanent residency in the Clinical Skills Laboratory in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Frosty’s new address has been made possible through gifts by several individuals, including several from the Class of ’75.

The RVC Animal Care Trust has awarded a grant of almost £31,000 to fund a bovine calving simulator. The simulator, based at the Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) Boltons Park Farm and equipped with a functional udder, will offer improved learning opportunities to veterinary students before working with live animals.

When purchasing a horse, one may consider certain physical traits such as breed, how many hands tall or soundness of hooves. Most people would not think twice about the GI tract or reproductive system, but those were the selling points of the equine simulator for the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis, Nebraska.

VSI LVSI Ltd. attended the InVeST 2014 conference hosted by Ross University. We would like to thanks Dr. Robin Fiorito, Dr Andrew Knight, Verda James and everyone else who helped organize the event and make it such a success.

VSI Ltd. was invited to the 2014 APVMA conference being held at Iowa State University in Ames Iowa.

Bryan Pfahl and Russ Gray of VSI Ltd. attended the 2015 Therio Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

VSI donated an equine theriogenology model to the Theriogenology Foundation silent auction.

Proceeds from the auction go to benefit students, residents, student chapters and others, with travel grants, research projects and outreach.

The University of Hannover has two of the first VSI large animal simulators at their clinical skills facility.

For the conference, VSI brought a new equine neck venipuncture model for Dr. Marc Dilly.

The cow laboratory allows students to practice techniques in a realistic but low-risk environment

The University’s School of Veterinary Science is introducing a new curriculum to further enhance undergraduate veterinary teaching and learning.

A life-sized horse mannequin with accessible organs is helping Massey students learn to do procedures such as rectal exams without the risk of being kicked in the head.

Fox 11 News has reported on Fox Valley Technical College’s new Holstein Dystocia Simulator in Wisconsin.Her full name is Maple Leaf Foxy. Instructor Dr Nagel and students are excited to prepare students for complications that can occur on the farm.