A "must-have" for every practice! Mandatory for vocational school lessons. Comprehensive for practical application. Structured according to learning fields - subject knowledge based on the framework curriculum. Practical examples and guiding questions for action-oriented teaching. Approximately 400 instructive illustrations. Overview of laboratory knowledge. A compact reference work for the time during and after training. This teaching and practice book combines two established standard works for the vocational training of veterinary medical assistants: Authors Arthur Grabner and Sibylle Kiris have merged, updated, and expanded the well-known textbook "The Veterinary Assistant" and the supplementary work aligned with the framework curriculum. The chapters of this textbook follow the requirements of the 12 learning fields. For quick reference, laboratory knowledge is summarized in a comprehensive chapter at the end of the book. A detailed index.