About the Veterinary Teaching Hospital , Mō Tāwharau Ora

Our veterinary teaching clinics are fully equipped, offering excellent service to clients and their animals, all the while teaching our final year students the ins and outs of working in a Veterinary Practice.

• Across all clinics we have over 40 vets and 50 support staff (nurses, techs, receptionists and administrators).
• We have specialists covering a range of our services across all 3 clinics.
• We have advanced diagnostic equipment to support our staff and students, such as CT and Fluoroscopy.
• Our shared services of Anaesthesia, Imaging and Pathology are staffed with experts in their fields.

Our three clinics offer final year vet students an opportunity to get hands on experience while under the supervision of our skilled veterinary and nursing team. This means every patient has a special role to play in educating the future generations of vets for New Zealand and the world!

Students are involved in almost every aspect of your animals’ care, meaning more care and attention. A student may conduct your initial consultation, take history and perform an initial clinical exam before discussing with an experienced Veterinarian. The consultation may take longer than commercial practices, but the level of discussion, contemplation and assessment is far more robust and allows time for the student to take the lead in a controlled environment. The client's input and patience is invaluable.

Diagnostics and procedures are performed under strict supervision and will have different levels of student involvement, depending on the procedure and student’s experience and confidence.

Communication is a vital part of the veterinary practice; students will conduct daily calls to clients and follow up on discharged patients. Writing daily patient notes, inputting treatment plans into our Patient Management Software, and learning to produce estimates and invoices are all part of our students' education and ensure a well-rounded experience before graduation.

Our vets and students have access to a huge array of state of the art equipment and facilities.

The Veterinary Teaching Hospital has dedicated orthopaedic and soft tissue surgical suites, as well as diagnostic imaging, separate and fully equipped isolation units and much, much more.