Specialist Veterinary Anaesthesiology (0.8 – 1.0 FTE)

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The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine  has a unique position in the Netherlands. Not only is this the only institution where veterinarians are trained, but it is also where researchers are working together on innovative scientific research. In addition, the faculty provides specialist clinical care in the largest academic veterinary hospital in Europe. Thanks to this position, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is a point of contact for all veterinary matters, both nationally and increasingly internationally. The faculty employs approximately 900 Veterinarians, Scientists and support staff and counts 1,500 students.

The Department of Clinical Sciences is part of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and includes a training institute, research institute and a fully-equipped academic veterinary teaching hospital, the  ‘Universiteitskliniek Utrecht’. The university clinic boasts a large fully equipped small animal hospital with six ORs, an ECVECC-run ICU and a medium care unit, with busy medical and surgical services (including orthopaedics, neurology, cardiology, dentistry, oncology, but also behavioral consultations, dermatology and opthalmology). Immediately neighbouring the small animal clinic, the university complex also houses a busy equine hospital with more than 100 box stalls, an OR suite with four ORs including a dedicated OR for standing procedures, a 24/7 neonatal foal ICU (in season) and a 24/7 emergency referral clinic as well as an ambulatory equine service. We have a large diagnostic imaging department who supports both equine and small animal clinics, and features a 1.5T MRI and 64-slice CT scanner, scintigraphy, state-of-the-art digital x-ray and ultrasonography, as well as an angiography suite for interventional cardiology procedures.

Annually, in the small animal hospital alone, approximately 14,000 outpatient consultations take place and over 3,500 anaesthetics are performed. The equine hospital performs approximately 400 elective procedures, 80-100 exploratory laparotomies and 200 standing CTs annually, with patients from within the Netherlands and abroad.