VTMED 6526 - Small Animal Clinical Nutrition

Spring. 2 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: third-year veterinary students.

J. Wakshlag.

This course will cover nutritional intervention in disease (cardiac, LUTD, renal, hepatic, osteoarthritis, critical care, immunonutrition, GI diseases, allergic disease, cognition, sarcopenia, endocrine diseases, obesity). Each lecture will cover a different topic starting with the mechanism of disease and then focus on the basic medical and in depth nutrition treatment of the disease process including the therapeutic diets available to help ameliorate the medical condition.