Relatório de estágio curricular obrigatório: área de clínica médica e cirúrgica de bovinos leiteiros

Abstract

This paper consists of the Report on the Mandatory Internship completed in the field of Clinical Medicine and Surgery of Dairy Cattle, submitted as a requirement for completion of the Veterinary Medicine program at the University of Caxias do Sul. The aim is to describe the activities carried out during the period from March 9, 2026, to June 10, 2026, totaling 512 hours of curricular internship, conducted in the city of Carambeí, Paraná, at the company Pioneiros Policlínica Veterinária Carambeí S/S, under the supervision of veterinarian Daniele Aparecida Mônego Pinotti, with Teacher Dr. Fábio Antunes Rizzo, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, serving as academic advisor. A variety of activities were observed: veterinary clinical care for cattle, field surgeries, health and reproductive management of herds, milk quality control during milking, and laboratory activities focused on cattle. Among these cases, two clinical cases are reported in this document, emphasize the challenges faced and the solutions adopted: the first report concerns the clinical findings from the necropsy of a cow affected by anaplasmosis, followed by treatment of animals showing clinical signs at a dairy farm in the city of Carambeí, Paraná. The second report, on the other hand, concerns the Utrecht method, i.e., a surgical technique used to correct abomasal displacement in cattle using omentopexy through the right flank. The practical experience gained during the curricular internship, combined with the technical and professional knowledge acquired throughout the undergraduate program, contributed significantly to academic and professional learning, as well as to an understanding of the importance of the veterinarian in the milk production chain, whose work is guided by ethics, animal welfare, and food safety in production. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]