About Us

The Small Animal Clinical Skills Clubs (SACS) at Cornell is devoted to the improvement of clinical skills students have limited opportunities to practice. To this end, we host lectures and wet labs; for example, in previous years have had labs on dental radiography and dental techniques such as scaling and nerve blocks. All of the labs are hands-on and allow students to practice skills on cadavers, and are taught by residents or technicians in the hospital. Perhaps our most important events are vaccine and SNAP test clinics that we host in the fall and spring. These are open to students, staff, and faculty of the vet school and usually draws in about 60 animals per clinic. Club members and volunteers run the entire clinic, from vaccine administration to blood draw, under the supervision of our trusted advisers, Pati Kirch, LVT/Teaching Support Specialist, and Carolyn McDaniel, VMD/Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical Sciences.