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Veterinary Sciences

Veterinary Sciences

Our Veterinary Sciences programs are located at 㽶Ƶ’s beautiful Haileybury Campus in the state-of-the-art Veterinary Sciences Centre.

Our programs are designed to give you an extensive amount of practice and real world experience working with domestic, laboratory and farm animals.

Our programming is layered to allow students to receive multiple qualifications, including specialized care for wild animals and companion animals, which you can only get at 㽶Ƶ. You will not find such a strong and unique combination of expert-level training elsewhere!

㽶Ƶ’s accreditors encourage our School of Veterinary Science to publicly share our Standard Operating Procedure outlining the steps taken when animal care and use complaints are brought forward. This information can be found here:  “Handling Complaints Concerning Animal Care and Use [PDF, .98 MB]”.

Explore Our Programs

Animal Grooming

1-Year Ontario College Certificate
Haileybury

Our Animal Grooming program gives you hands-on experience and opportunities to work with live animals to practice your grooming skills. Under the guidance of experienced instructors, you’ll gain a solid base of technical skills and knowledge in animal grooming.

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Veterinary Assistant

1-Year Ontario College Certificate
Haileybury

Vet Tech students with kitten

Gain the skills and knowledge to assist members of a veterinary team. Through our one-year Veterinary Assistant certificate program, you’ll learn to prepare medication, counsel clients on patient care, and assist with lab work and surgery preparation under the direction of a veterinarian or designate.

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The Animal Grooming & Veterinary Assistant programs may be completed concurrently to earn two Ontario College Certificates.

Veterinary Technician

2-Year Ontario College Diploma
Haileybury

Our Veterinary Technician prepares you for an exciting career caring for animals. Our unique learning environment equips you with the skills and expertise for a successful career, starting from the first semester. Gain extensive, hands-on experience with our animal colony and benefit from our exceptional facilities and small class sizes.

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Veterniary Technician students learning with microscope

Veterinary Technology – Wildlife Rehabilitation

3-Year Ontario College Advanced Diploma
Haileybury

Expand on your skills from the Veterinary Technician program to specialize in rehabilitating wildlife from our experienced faculty and placement opportunities. This unique program prepares you to write the exam to become a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC) and embark on an exciting career.

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Companion Animal Physical Rehabilitation

1-Year Ontario College Graduate Diploma
Haileybury

Our one-year Companion Animal Physical Rehabilitation graduate certificate program for veterinary technicians will give you the critical skills you need to work in specialized patient care. This program addresses the patient’s needs and demonstrates the pivotal role technicians play in improving the quality of life for pets.

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Veterinary Sciences Centre

Our Veterinary Sciences Centre at the Haileybury Campus is a state-of-the-art facility that features up-to-date labs and equipment, a surgery suite, animal grooming area, an underwater treadmill and animal living facilities.

The Veterinary Sciences Centre features real cats, dogs, and other animals living on-site, up-to-date labs and equipment, a surgery suite, animal grooming area, an underwater treadmill and animal living facilities, as well as an outdoor exercise area.

We regularly receive animals from shelters and animal control facilities. Our professional staff and students work together to ensure these animals are nursed back to health, vaccinated, spayed or neutered, and are physically, socially, and mentally prepared to find their forever homes.

This means we can offer you more access to real animals to care for and learn with than any other College in Ontario, giving you a unique edge over other graduates.

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