VTMED 6425

VTMED 6425

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

Shelter Medicine is a new and exciting discipline in veterinary medicine.  Caring for animals in animal shelters requires a herd health, as well as an individual animal perspective.  Topics addressed in this course may include the following: the role of veterinarians working with and for animal shelters, the principles of preventive medicine and population health in companion animals; behavioral enrichment, behavior assessment; shelter metrics; flow-through planning; zoonotic diseases, management of common infectious disease and approved methods of euthanasia for companion animals. 


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: VTMED 5400. Highly recommended prerequisite: VTMED 6734.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: third- and fourth-year veterinary students.

When Offered Spring.

Comments Minimum enrollment 5; maximum 40. This is the second course in a three-course sequence.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Four Week - Third. 

  • 1 Credit Graded

  • 15252 VTMED 6425   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person