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Complaint Review: Sanford Brown institute - Fort Lauderdale, FL Florida
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1201 W Cypress Creek Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33309 Florida, USA
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Sanford Brown institute I should never have been allowed to graduate from Sanford Brown vet tech program. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
I should never have been advised to become a veterinary technology student and allowed to graduate from Sanford Brown Institute Ft Lauderdale.
I was intensely sold the veterinary technologist program at Sanford Brown Institute in Ft Lauderdale. Their motivation was only to “sell” me the course weather I could benefit from it or not.
I was given assurances that aspects of my age and physical condition were not a barrier to enter their veterinary technology program and indeed find be able to find employment as a veterinary technologist. I was promised small class size and requisite vet tech equipment. I was also shown entrylevel salary statistics which have proved to be unfounded. Much of the equipment for the class had not been installed until after I was midway through the courses.
Many of the most necessary duties a vet tech is required to perform and which upon graduation I should have become comfortable with and at least had some proficiency at, I was never able to gain any measure of mastery, such as venipuncture, catheter placement, and endotracheal tube placement. I have difficulty viewing slides through a binocular microscope. This is due to the fact that I have no depth perception as I have only one fully functional eye since birth. I have degenerative arthritis in my spine, which limits by ability to kneel stoop, bend or lift in excess of 50 lbs. I have trouble reading the graduations on a syringe and the print on a vaccine vial.
I informed the admissions officer at the time I was accepted of my physical limitations and was told that my age and physical limitations would not be
a factor in my being employed as a vet tech. I expressed concern to the admissions officer about my age of 59 years old (at that time)
and asked if that would be a barrier to employment as a vet tech. He assured me, as did others on the teaching staff that it would not. I asked this
numerous times of every staff member I could. I was consistently told it was not a problem. All their assurances proved
to be misplaced. I was rushed swiftly through the student loan process. Where I was also assured that if I could not meet the physical challenges the
loan would be cancelled. In research related to my job search over the past few years I have never found a single instance of a 60+year old entry level
vet tech being hired. In fact a veterinary hospital office manager told me off the record that men my age would just not
be hired for a vet tech position. I have never gained employment as a veterinary technologist despite numerous applications over the past few years.
In the course of my two externships where I was to demonstrate various skills, my poor performance due to my physical difficulties and age were apparent in the performance the duties of a vet tech.
I should never have been allowed to graduate and I should have been advised not to become a veterinary technology student at Sanford Brown.
