Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital

The faculty’s Skills Laboratory creates an engaging, stress-free learning environment in which veterinary students can become competent and confident in their clinical skills.

Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital: Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital acquired its first high-field MRI scanner, the first of its kind in Africa. Student Lulama Nsele is pictured with Yorkshire terrier Bear, the first patient in the new MRI facility that was opened on 26 July 2021.

Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital: The faculty’s Skills Laboratory creates an engaging, stress-free learning environment in which veterinary students can become competent and confident in their clinical skills. Both hands-on and cognitive skills are fostered through a combination of model and simulation training for students.

Fushan, a nine-year-old Siberian tiger, was brought to the faculty’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital to have dental work done and for his hips to be assessed. Here, veterinary wildlife specialist Prof Katja Koeppel is having a first look at the animal.
Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital acquired its first high-field MRI scanner, the first of its kind in Africa. Student Lulama Nsele is pictured with Yorkshire terrier Bear, the first patient in the new MRI facility that was opened on 26 July 2021.
The faculty’s Skills Laboratory creates an engaging, stress-free learning environment in which veterinary students can become competent and confident in their clinical skills. Both hands-on and cognitive skills are fostered through a combination of model and simulation training for students.

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