Veterinary Society
Run by students who want to know what a vet knows. Here you work through real clinical cases, learn the hands-on skills on models, study how animals behave and how they learn, and write up what you find. Any year group. No experience needed.
Chair Henry Yuan · site made by Dr Daniel Mompel Riera, Biology, NLCS Jeju
Running the society
the chair, the secretary and the teachers see thisTell the class in Google Classroom: when the next meeting is and what it will be, with a link to this page. It goes out under Dr Mompel’s name, because this page’s script runs as him — which is what saves you having to be allowed anything yourself.
What we do
Clinical cases
Here you take a real case, a lame horse, a coughing calf, a dog that will not eat, and work it the way a vet would: history, examination, tests, a diagnosis, a plan.
Suturing
Here you learn to close a wound on a practice pad: which stitch, which knot, how tight, and why it matters which you choose.
Taking blood
Here you find the vein and draw blood from a silicone mould with a tube running through it, then learn what a blood test can tell you and what it cannot.
Animal behaviour
Here you read an animal: what a flattened ear, a swishing tail or a lowered head is telling you, and what it means for handling it safely.
Training a dog
Here you learn how a dog learns: the marker, the reward, the timing, and why punishment teaches the wrong thing.
Writing it up
Here you turn what you found into pages other people can use. Issue 1 of the magazine is below; issue 2 is yours to write.
Ideas for this year
sign in below, then vote for the ones you want · the chair sees the countMeet a vet
Dr Mompel knows several vets. If enough of you want it, one could come to a meeting, or have you shadow a clinic for a day. Their time is precious, so the interest has to be real, and you arrive with your questions written down.
The wild animals of Jeju
Roe deer, the island’s birds, the bats in the lava tubes, what the sea washes up: who looks after Jeju’s wild animals when they are hurt, and what a vet can do for them.
One Health
Bird flu, rabies, brucellosis: diseases that move between animals and people. What a public-health worker actually does all day, and why a vet is one too.
Inside the animal
Dissection, X-rays and scans: what is in there, how it works, and how it looks when it goes wrong.
First aid for pets
The first ten minutes: bleeding, choking, heatstroke, a swallowed thing. What to do before the vet, and what not to.
A debate
Should Jeju’s roe deer be culled? Should a school keep animals? Take a side, bring the evidence, and argue it.
Members and the register
Put your name down
Sign in with your school Google account, the same as for the labs. Then say what you would like to do, and you can vote on the ideas above. Your address stays with the chair; the page shows your first name and year only.
Sign in at the top of the page first — the button is up beside the society’s name.
Or email the chair, Henry Yuan: scyuan29@pupils.nlcsjeju.kr
Who comes
Nobody yet. Be the first.
Teachers
The magazine
Island Immunity · issue 1
Investigating Jeju farm animal diseases. Four animals, four diseases, each written up by a student: what it is, how it spreads, what it does to Jeju, and how it is kept out.
Read the magazine PDF · 10 MB- Jieun KimPorcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virusThe pig disease behind “blue ear”, and why it threatens Jeju black pork.
- Minjae KangBovine viral diarrhoea virusThe calf that is born carrying it, and keeps it circulating in Hanwoo herds.
- Chunghyun (Sola) LeeAvian influenzaThe outbreaks that emptied Jeju’s poultry farms, and what to do the day you spot it.
- Hyun Seo (Rachel) NohStrongylus vulgarisThe bloodworm that migrates through a horse’s arteries, and how it is treated.
Edited by Jieun Kim and Minjae Kang. The society that made it: Jieun Kim, chair · Minjae Kang, publicity officer · Henry Yuan, secretary.