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DVM Curriculum 

Focus Areas

Focus areas allow you to increase your depth of training in your intended area of post-graduate activity, while still retaining a broad based veterinary education.

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Clinician Scientist

Combine clinical and basic science

Tammy and horse

Equine Practice

 Entry level equine practice

NC State CVM chicken at the poultry education unit

Food Animal

Skills needed in modern food animal production

NC State CVM Mice

Laboratory Animal

Combines many elements of veterinary medicine

Dog and cat

Mixed Animal Practice

Broad clinical education

Microscopic view of dead tissue

Pathology

Clinical pathology and anatomic pathology

group of young piglet at pig breeding farm

Epidemiology

Prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals

Student holding ferret

Small Animal Practice

Combines many elements of veterinary medicine

Veterinarian inspecting wolf

Small and Exotic Animal Practice

Training in both small animal and exotic animal practice

african gray parrot

Zoological Medicine

Medicine and surgery in nontraditional species.

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Focus Area Documents

Focus Area Declaration
Dual Focus Area Declaration
Request a Change of Focus Area

Focus Area Regulations

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Your Advisor Helps You Select a Focus Area

Every DVM student is assigned a faculty advisor responsible for introducing that student to veterinary medicine, advising the student on selective/elective choices, signing the clinical competency book yearly and helping the student choose a focus area. Learn more about how and when to choose a focus area and about the regulations that govern focus areas