Relatório de estágio curricular obrigatório: área de clínica médica de pequenos animais

Abstract

The present study aims to describe the activities performed and monitored during the mandatory supervised internship in Veterinary Medicine, with a focus on Small Animal Internal Medicine, carried out at the Veterinary Hospital Institute (IHVET) of the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS), from February 23 to June 5, 2026, totaling 441 hours. The internship was conducted under the guidance of Prof. Fabiana Uez Tomazzoni, M.Sc., and supervised by Prof. Manoela Maria Bianchi, M.Sc. During this period, 71 animals were monitored, including 49 (69.01%) dogs and 22 (30.99%) cats, with a higher prevalence of males among dogs and females among cats. Among the medical conditions observed in the Internal Medicine Service, integumentary disorders were the most frequent, accounting for 17 (23.29%) cases, followed by infectious and parasitic diseases with 15 (20.55%) cases. Throughout the internship, a total of 650 clinical and outpatient diagnostic procedures were performed and/or monitored, with medication administration being the most common (n = 194; 29.85%), followed by blood sample collection (n = 107; 16.46%) and assessment of vital parameters (n = 71; 10.92%), procedures routinely carried out during both clinical consultations and hospitalization. The case reports presented correspond to a four-year-old mixed-breed female dog diagnosed with generalized demodicosis and an eight-month-old mixed-breed female cat diagnosed with a gastric foreign body located in the pyloric region. The internship period proved to be essential for professional training, contributing significantly to the improvement of clinical reasoning and the development of practical skills acquired throughout the undergraduate program. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]