Foundational concepts preparing students for the study of unhealthy animals, including basic concepts from infectious disease, immunology, anatomic and clinical pathology, clinical pharmacology, nutrition, and anesthesia and diagnostic imaging.
Athena Title
Foundations of Vet Med IIa
Non-Traditional Format
75 total contact hours, including lecture, lab, and small group integrative sessions.
Pre or Corequisite
Enrollment in the second year of the doctor of veterinary medicine curriculum.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Student learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will understand how to relate each of the following to the study of unhealthy organ systems in animals: Concepts of infectious disease, including bacteriology, mycology, virology, and parasitology.
By the end of this course, students will understand how to relate concepts in immunology to the study of unhealthy organ systems in animals.
By the end of this course, students will understand how to relate foundational principles of anatomic and clinical pathology to the study of unhealthy organ systems in animals.
By the end of this course, students will understand how to relate foundational principles of diagnostic imaging to the study of unhealthy organ systems in animals.
By the end of this course, students will understand how to relate foundational principles of clinical pharmacology, nutrition, and anesthesia to the study of unhealthy organ systems in animals.
Topical Outline
Threats to the body: External and Internal
a. Toxic exposure
b. Trauma
c. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites
d. Cancer
e. Inheritance
Responses to threats (body’s response as well as our response)
a. Physiology
b. Immunology (including Systemic inflammatory response syndrome)
c. Pathology
d. Wound healing
e. Nutrition
f. Regulatory medicine
g. Biosecurity
Foundational principles of diagnostics
a. Radiology
b. Pathology
c. Bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology
d. Internal medicine
e. Sensitivity and specificity
f. Test interpretation
Foundational principles of therapeutics
a. Physiology
b. Pharmacology
c. Internal medicine
d. Emergency and Critical Care
e. Anesthesia
