VTMED 5704 - Veterinary Practice: Introduction to Clinical Procedures

Fall. 2 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: VTMED 5703. Course fee: for course guide. Enrollment is limited to: second-year veterinary medical students. Live animals used in course instruction.

N. L. Irby, L. D. Warnick, and staff.

Complements and augments material learned in VTMED 5400 (Block IV—Host, Agent, and Defense). Emphasizes veterinary public health and preventive medicine. Topics include aggressive animals and animal bites, routes of disease transmission, rabies control programs, zoonotic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, environmental health, and preventive health care programs including vaccination protocols in large and small animals.