VM - Veterinary Medicine

VM 500  Animals, Society, and the Veterinarian: 1 Credits (1 Lab)

ctive participation in activities designed to enhance personal growth, character development and leadership skills for the professional veterinary student.

VM 501  International Veterinary Medicine: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Important veterinary medicine issues and constraints facing the global community.

VM 508  Veterinary Research Orientation: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Identifying and developing a focused area of scholarly activity in biomedical research.

VM 509  Veterinary Research Issues, Ethics, and Literacy: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Philosophy and history of methodological, ethical and political issues relevant to biomedical research using selected monographs and essays.

VM 510  Veterinary Microscopic Anatomy: 4 Credits (1 Lec, 3 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Microscopic functional morphology of the cell, tissues, and selected organ systems of domestic animals

VM 511  Veterinary Anatomy I: 5 Credits (1 Lec, 4 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Detailed macroscopic functional morphology of the dog with comparison to other domestic animals; developmental anatomy of selected organ systems

VM 512  Veterinary Anatomy II: 4 Credits (1 Lec, 3 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: VM 511. Detailed macroscopic functional morphology of domestic animals

VM 513  Veterinary Physiology I: 4 Credits (4 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Cell physiology focusing on endocrine, paracrine, and neurotransmission signaling processes, transcriptional and translational control, and methodologies relevant to medicine

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  1. Understand cellular control of gene expression and signaling.
  2. Understand how proteins function to carry out their duties as enzymes, receptors, and structural components of the cell.
  3. Understand how cells communicate among one another.
  4. Understand the diversity of extracellular signals and how they are generated.
  5. Understand the mechanisms by which cells take extracellularly-derived information and translate it into cellular action.
  6. Understand cellular responses to stress and disease.
  7. Understand global physiological control systems (nervous and endocrine systems).

VM 520  Veterinary Physiology II: 5 Credits (4 Lec, 1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: VM 510, VM 513. This is the second of a two-semester veterinary physiology course

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  1. Understand the functions of selected tissues and organs.
  2. Understand how these functions arise from underlying cellular mechanisms.
  3. Understand how individual organs are controlled to serve basal and changing body needs.
  4. Understand how the multiple organs (and functions) interact in a complementary way to bring about systemic function and homeostasis.
  5. Identify major representative points of drug action.
  6. Gain useful constructs for explaining pathologic processes and disease management practices.
  7. Be prepared for the study of pharmacology, pathophysiology, and clinical medicine.

VM 521  Introduction to Veterinary Neurology: 3 Credits (2 Lec, 1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: VET MED 510. Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological bases of veterinary neurology, emphasizing central and peripheral sensory and motor systems

VM 534  Veterinary Immunology: 3 Credits (2 Lec, 1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Immunology for the professional veterinary student

VM 545  General Pathology: 3 Credits (2 Lec, 1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Structural and functional alterations in disease; elementary oncology. Cooperative: Open to UI degree-seeking students

VM 562  Complementary Alternative Veterinary Medicine: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Presentation and discussion of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine theories and techniques.

VM 568  Animal Handling and Animal Agriculture Orientation: 2 Credits (1 Lec, 1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Introduction to clinical restraint procedures, physical exam and treatment procedures, and clinical behavior and management

VM 580  Basic Nutrition: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Introduction to the concepts of basic nutrition designed for the first year veterinary student

VM 581  Agricultural Animal Problem Seminar: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Presentation and discussion of agricultural animal veterinary cases from the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.

VM 586  Principles of Surgery: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Principles of surgery for the professional veterinary student

VM 596  The Business of Veterinary Practice: 1 Credits (1 Lec)

Presentation and discussion of business strategies involved in achieving a successful veterinary career and running a veterinary practice.

VM 598  Introduction to Clinics: 1 Credits (1 Lab)

PREREQUISITE: Veterinary Medicine student. Introduction to the practice of clinical veterinary medicine and surgery, including records, presentation and protocol