Teaching disciplines

Eight faculty groups.
One teaching mandate.

Tier 2 faculty seats span seven veterinary specialties and one nursing instruction group. Each seat carries the same four-pillar mandate — adapted to the clinical and pedagogical terrain of your discipline.

Orthopedic Surgery

Surgical · Procedural

Teaching orthopaedic surgery at the board-round level means building diagnostic reasoning for lameness, fracture classification, and post-operative management — not just technique. Your recorded lessons form the structured surgical curriculum; your journal club sessions connect evolving implant science and rehabilitation evidence to how trainees handle cases the week after.

What you teach
  • Fracture assessment and fixation principles — TPLO, plating, external fixation
  • Lameness examination, gait analysis, and differentials
  • Post-operative management, rehabilitation protocols, complication recognition
  • Imaging interpretation: radiography and CT for orthopaedic disease
  • Surgical planning and case selection criteria

Neurology

Diagnostic · Medical & Surgical

Neurolocalization is the core competency your teaching builds. Board rounds driven by real neurological presentations — ataxia, seizures, acute disc disease — where you train trainees to localize before they reach for imaging. Your recorded curriculum covers the full neuroanatomical map; your assessment milestones verify that trainees can apply it under clinical pressure.

What you teach
  • Neurological examination and neurolocalization — practical and systematic
  • MRI interpretation for spinal and intracranial disease
  • Medical management: status epilepticus, disc disease, GME
  • Surgical decision-making for decompression and stabilisation
  • Prognostication and client communication in neurological disease

Anaesthesia

Perioperative · Critical Support

Anaesthesia teaching is where pharmacology, physiology, and crisis management converge. Your board rounds work through perioperative complication cases; your recorded lessons build the systematic pre-anaesthetic assessment and monitoring interpretation skills that trainees carry into every procedure. High-stakes, detail-dense — exactly the discipline that benefits from a specialist educator.

What you teach
  • Pre-anaesthetic risk stratification and patient optimisation
  • Anaesthetic drug selection: TIVA, inhalant, balanced protocols
  • Monitoring interpretation — capnography, invasive pressure, pulse oximetry
  • Perioperative crisis management: hypotension, bradycardia, apnoea
  • Regional anaesthesia and locoregional techniques

Cardiology

Diagnostic · Medical

Echocardiography interpretation, murmur grading, and congestive heart failure staging — this is what separates a cardiologist's teaching from a textbook. Your board rounds bring these skills into contact with real patients; your recorded lectures provide the structural and haemodynamic framework trainees need to understand what they're seeing on echo and how to act on it.

What you teach
  • Cardiac auscultation and murmur characterisation
  • Echocardiography: 2D, M-mode, Doppler — interpretation principles
  • CHF staging, ACVIM guidelines, and medical management decisions
  • Arrhythmia recognition and ECG interpretation
  • Emergency management: acute decompensated heart failure, pericardial effusion

Soft Tissue Surgery

Surgical · Oncological · Emergency

Your teaching mandate spans the breadth of soft tissue surgical decision-making — from oncological planning to emergency abdominal intervention. Board rounds around tumour staging, surgical margins, and wound reconstruction build the clinical reasoning that turns technically capable vets into surgical decision-makers. Your recorded modules cover the anatomy and approach principles; your journal club connects surgical oncology evidence to how trainees manage their next case.

What you teach
  • Surgical oncology: staging, excision margins, and reconstruction planning
  • Abdominal surgery: GI, hepatobiliary, urogenital, adrenal approaches
  • Wound management: primary closure, flaps, grafts, open wound care
  • Thoracic surgical principles and chest drain management
  • Pre- and post-operative care standards for major soft tissue cases

Internal Medicine

Diagnostic · Medical · Multi-system

Internal medicine teaching is the connective tissue of the whole programme. Your board rounds handle the diagnostically complex, multi-system cases that sit outside any single specialty — teaching the pattern-recognition and systematic approach that trainees need across every discipline. Your recorded curriculum covers endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, and haematology as integrated systems, not isolated topics.

What you teach
  • Problem-oriented approach to complex multi-system presentations
  • Endocrinology: diabetes, hypoadrenocorticism, hypothyroidism, acromegaly
  • Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disease — diagnostic and management frameworks
  • Nephrology: AKI vs CKD, staging, fluid and nutritional management
  • Haematology and immune-mediated disease: IMHA, ITP, lymphoma

Emergency & Critical Care

Emergency · ICU · Resuscitation

ECC teaching is built around decision-making under pressure. Your board rounds reconstruct real emergency presentations — the deteriorating patient, the overnight crisis, the resuscitation decision — and teach trainees to think clearly under load. Recorded modules cover the ICU physiology and monitoring framework; journal club connects the critical care literature directly to how trainees manage their sickest patients tonight.

What you teach
  • Triage and initial stabilisation: haemorrhagic shock, respiratory failure, ARDS
  • Fluid therapy, vasopressor use, and haemodynamic monitoring in the ICU
  • CPR, RECOVER guidelines, and post-resuscitation care
  • Mechanical ventilation indications, settings, and weaning
  • Toxicology, envenomation, and acute poisoning management

Nursing Instruction Nurse Educator

Clinical Nursing · Patient Care · Education

Veterinary nursing instruction is its own discipline within Tier 2 — and a critical one. The clinical nursing workforce is the backbone of patient care delivery, and the standard of nursing practice in a hospital is set by who teaches it. Your mandate covers the full scope of clinical nursing education: patient monitoring, procedural technique, perioperative support, and the clinical reasoning that makes the difference between a nurse who follows a protocol and one who catches what the protocol missed.

What you teach
  • Patient monitoring and vital sign interpretation — what normal looks like and when to escalate
  • Nursing care planning: pain assessment, wound care, nutritional support, barrier nursing
  • Perioperative nursing: pre-op preparation, intra-op monitoring support, post-op recovery
  • IV catheter placement, fluid line management, blood transfusion protocols
  • Clinical reasoning for nursing staff — the decision frameworks behind the procedures

See your discipline here?

Faculty seats are available across all eight disciplines. If your clinical background maps to one of these groups — let's talk.