Advanced Diploma Veterinary Technology – Wildlife Rehabilitation

Northern College

Advanced Diploma Veterinary Technology – Wildlife Rehabilitation

  • Country Canada
  • Course Duration 3 year
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Diploma
  • Education Required 3-Year Undergraduate Advanced Diploma
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 60
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
CAD 100 CAD 15,720

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2023-01-03
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Program Description

The only one of its kind in Canada, Northern’s Veterinary Technology – Wildlife Rehabilitation program is an accredited three-year advanced diploma that will transform your passion for animals into a career helping orphaned, injured and ailing wildlife.After two years of the Veterinary Technician program, you’ll specialize in Year Three – honing your nursing, nutrition and technical skills.Along the way, you’ll also deepen your knowledge of birds and mammals, master facilities operations – including habitats – and learn how to manage and promote non-profit organizations.
The result is you’ll graduate ready to take on a leadership role at a zoo, wildlife rescue, or within a traditional or exotic veterinary practice.Why Study Wildlife Rehabilitation?
  • You have a passion for animals and preserving the natural ecosystem
  • You want to help reduce mortality and suffering in orphaned, injured and ill wild animals.
  • You wish to draw upon, widen and deepen your Veterinary Technician professional animal nursing skills and knowledge
  • You want to add to your employability credentials and career path options, making your resume stand out with a Veterinary Technologist designation, and also by broadening your skill sets beyond the usual focus on small animal private practice veterinary clinics.
  • You want to grow as an individual:
    • Improve your effectiveness in working and communicating with others in a variety of possible capacities — related to but also potentially beyond wildlife rehabilitation.
    • Grow your skills in motivating and managing volunteers in non-profit organizations, and in taking on leadership projects and opportunities that you might otherwise not have the opportunity for at this stage in your career
Why Study Wildlife Rehabilitation at Northern College?
  • Learn the specific knowledge involved in rehabilitating wildlife: nursing and technical skills; raptor, avian and mammalian studies; nutrition; habitat; facilities operations; legislation; non-profit organization management and promotion.
  • Faculty experienced in this specialized field
  • Prepares you for the Ontario Wildlife Rehabilitation Exam and/or applying for Wildlife Custodian Authorization status
  • Curriculum covers the National Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Association (NWRA) standards
  • Incorporates the Wildlife Educators Code of Ethics
  • Prepares you to write the optional exam to become a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR) by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC)
  • 4-week placement gives you real-world practice applying what you’ve learned
  • Only program of its kind in Canada
Our graduates have found work in areas such as:
  • Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organizations
  • Zoos
  • Exotic animal veterinary practices
  • Traditional veterinary practices, many of which have occasions where the public brings them injured or ill wildlife
 

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* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.