VTMED 6425

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VTMED 6425
Shelter Medicine I

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

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.  This course addresses 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. 

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: third- and fourth-year veterinary students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: VTMED 5400. Highly recommended prerequisite: VTMED 6734.

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

  • 15262 VTMED 6425   LEC 001

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