DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

1. A brief description of the department:

The Department of Veterinary Clinical medicine deals with the teaching and research in diffrent areas of clinical veterinary medicine and offers 9 Credit Hour Courses spread in two academic years (4th year 2nd semester and 5th year 1st semester) to the B.V.Sc. & A.H. students during the fourth and fifth year of the degree programme. From the academic session 2007-08, M.V.Sc. programmes in Veterinary Clinical Medicine has been introduced. The Deapartment is also offering supporting postgraduate courses for the M.V.Sc. degree programmes for the students of the other departments. The Department is having well-equipped laboratory facilities to impart best training to impart practical knowledge to the under graduate as well as the post-graduate students and to conduct advanced researches in the field of animal healthcare and extension activities. This department is also actively involved in undertaking clinical treatmentof all domestic and pet animals produced in the department.

2. List of courses of the department:

Undergraduate courses

(i) Clinical Veterinary Medicine - I (General & Systemic), VCM- 421 (2+0)=2

(ii) Clinical Veterinary Medicine – I (Clinics), VCM- 422 (0+2) =2.

(iii) Clinical Veterinary Medicine II (Metabolic, deficiency, genetic & other diseases), VCM-511= 2 + 0 = 2

(iv) Preventive Vety. Medicine - I VEP-421 = 2(2+0)

(v) Preventive Vety. Medicine - I (Clinics), VEP-422 = 2(0+2)

Clinical Veterinary Medicine II (Clinical Practice), VCM-512 = 0 + 2=2

Veterinary ethics and jurisprudence VCM-513= 1+0=1
Veterinary Epidemiology VEP-411= 1+1 = 2
Veterinary Preventive Medicine VEP-511 = 2 +0 = 2

Veterinary Preventive Medicine (Field/Clinic), VCM-512 = 0 + 2 = 2

Postgraduate courses (OLD)

Sr. No.	Courses	Course Title	Credit Hrs.
1	VCM-601	General Medicine	2 +1= 3
2	VCM 602	Metabolic and deficiency diseases	1+1 = 2
3	VCM 603	Clinical Gastroenterology	3 +1 =4
4	VCM 604	Thoracic Medicine	2 +1 =3
5	VCM 605	Clinical Dermatology	1 +1 =2
6	VCM 606	Clinical Hematology	1+1=2
7	VCM-711	Clinic-I	0 +1 = 1
8	VCM-701	Indigenous Medicine in Veterinary Practice	1+1 = 2
9	VCM 702	Diagnosis and treatment of animal due to poison, zootoxin and phytotoxin	1 +1 =2
10	VCM 704	Diseases of Thorax	2 +1 =3
11	VCM-705	Veterinary jurisprudence & forensic medicine	2 +2 =4
12	VCM-706	Experimental medicine	0 +1=1
13	VCM-712	Clinic-II	0 +1 = 1
14	VCM-700	Seminar	1+0=1
15	VCM – 777	Special problem	1 +0 = 1
16	VCM-799	Master’s thesis research	0 +15 = 15

Postgraduate courses (NEW)

Semester	Course No.	Course title	Credit Hours
I	VCM – 601	Ruminant Clinical Medicine – I	2(2+0)
	VCM – 602	Ruminant Clinical Medicine – II	2(2+0)
	VCM – 605	Swine Clinical Medicine	1(1+0)
	VCM – 606	Avian Medicine	1(1+0)
	VCM – 611	Veterinary Forensic Medicine	2(1+1)
	VCM – 614	Clinical Practice – I	3(0+3)
	VCM – 610	Diseases of animals caused by toxicants	1(1+0)

Semester	Course No.	Course title	Credit Hours
II	VCM – 603	Equine Clinical Medicine	2(2+0)
	VCM – 604	Canine and Feline Clinical Medicine	2(2+0)
	VCM – 609	Production Diseases	2(2+0)
	VCM – 613	Veterinary Emerging Medicine	2(0+2)
	VCM – 615	Clinical practice II	3(0+3)
	VCM – 691	Master’s Seminar	1(1+0)
	VCM – 608	Clinical disease of animal species* of regional importance	1(1+0)

Semester	Course No.	Course title	Credit Hours
III	VCM – 607	Zoo,Wild and Laboratory animal medicine	2(2+0)
	VCM – 612	Clinical diagnostic techniques	2(0+2)
	VCM – 699	Master’s research	20

3. Departmental Activities :


Fig 1. Students attending a pet animal in the clinics.	Fig 2. Showing a case of mastitis with swollen udder and teat.

Fig 3. Students collecting history in order to treat a cross breed cow during a visit to a near by farm.	Fig 4. Animals being attended during a animal health camp organized by the college NSS Unit.

Fig 5. Well equipped laboratory of the Department.	Fig: 6 Animal Health Camp