Welcome to Veterinary Population Medicine
The faculty and staff are dedicated to serving Minnesota through teaching, research,
clinical service and outreach. VPM faculty teach basic science and clinical courses to students
in the college. These courses cover all aspects of food animal and equine medicine
and husbandry.
Teaching
The department provides lecture, laboratory, in-hospital,
and field-based clinical instruction in medicine, surgery, production medicine,
and theriogenology (reproduction) of the major domestic large-animal species.
The department also houses the core faculty in epidemiology, veterinary public health, and pathology.
The department's instructional programs encompass a wide range of topics,
including individual animal diagnostics and therapeutics, herd-level diagnosis and control,
nutrition, production, management evaluation, and the application of software programs in veterinary medicine,
especially population medicine.
The department's instructional programs also focus on providing professional and graduate students
with the skills necessary for thorough and accurate veterinary diagnostic investigation
using principles of clinical pathology, diagnostic pathology, microbiology, toxicology,
endocrinology, virology, and molecular biology.
The department hosts many graduate students in the Veterinary Medicine and
Comparative and Molecular Biosciences graduate programs pursuing advanced degrees
in the areas of comparative medicine, pathology, surgery, radiology,
anesthesiology, population medicine, infectious diseases, theriogenology, and molecular biology.
The department also provides residency training (often in combination with graduate training)
in large animal medicine, surgery, theriogenology, veterinary preventive medicine, anatomic pathology,
clinical pathology, and dairy production medicine.
Related Links
- Center for Dairy Health, Management, and Food Quality. The mission of the Center for Dairy Health, Management, and Food Quality of the College of Veterinary Medicine is to enhance dairy animal health and welfare and the efficient, profitable, and environmentally sound production of quality food for the consumer.
- The Transition Management Facility of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota is a unique public-private partnership in dairy management and education. This state-of-the art facility operates in a commercial production setting with the added mission of providing advanced education and applied research to support our dairy industry and serve the consumers of dairy foods.
- The Swine Center offers conferences and workshops around the state for swine veterinarians and producers.
- The Neuromuscular Diagnostic Lab at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine is dedicated to the diagnosis and advancement of our understanding of muscle disorders in large animals.
- The primary objective of the Swine Disease Eradication Center is to understand the pathogenesis and epidemiology of the target diseases and from there develop and validate strategies and techniques for their successful eradication under field conditions.
- The mission of the University of Minnesota Center for Animal Health and Food Safety is to contribute to the safety and security of the global food system and significantly strengthen our ability to anticipate and respond to emerging issues and imminent threats from animal and foodborne illnesses.
- The University of Minnesota Equine Center is committed to advancing the health, well being, and performance of the horse.
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