Handbook

This rotation exposes students to mixed rural veterinary practice. Mixed veterinary practices are common throughout rural Australia and perform an important role in their communities by ensuring access of the public to veterinary services, advice on zoonoses, public health and animal welfare and performing other community services, while also acting as sentinels for new or exotic diseases of animals and as a reserve for outbreaks of introduced disease in animals. This composite role is unique to mixed rural practice and CSU veterinary graduates require an understanding and familiarity with this complex community responsibility.