Focus Areas

DVM Curriculum

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.

Clinician Scientist

Combine clinical and basic science

Equine Practice

Entry level equine practice

Food Animal

Skills needed in modern food animal production

Laboratory Animal

Combines many elements of veterinary medicine

Mixed Animal Practice

Broad clinical education

Pathology

Clinical pathology and anatomic pathology

Epidemiology

Prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals

Small Animal Practice

Combines many elements of veterinary medicine

Small and Exotic Animal

Training in both small animal and exotic animal practice

Zoological Medicine

Medicine and surgery in nontraditional species

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Focus Area Documents

Your Adviser Helps You Select a Focus Area

Every DVM student is assigned a faculty adviser 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

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