Spring 2027

Veterinary Pharmacology

Veterinary Pharmacology covers basic pharmacology of drug classes in veterinary medicine, clinical drug use examples, and species variations in drug response.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.40 GPA, 60.9% A/AB (n=92 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=90 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply the principles of pharmacology (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) to serve as the basis for selecting classes of drugs for clinical use.

  • Predict the therapeutic and toxic effects of drugs based on their mechanisms of action, pharmaceutic properties and patient characteristics (species, age, food animal, etc.).

  • Calculate correct drug dosages from a variety of different starting materials, define metric system prefixes, and describe various solution types that constitute drug formulations.

  • Identify pre-existing patient conditions that impact drug efficacy, metabolism and excretion.

  • Outline major therapeutic drug classes used to modulate the function of multiple organ systems (including cardiac, vascular, pulmonary, renal, urinary, endocrine, GI, CNS, and eye) as well as major drug classes used treat inflammation, and reduce bacterial and parasite infections.

  • Define cellular pathways and molecules that serve as drug targets for clinical therapy.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with second year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with second year standing
COMPBIO 556

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with second year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.40 GPA, 60.9% A/AB (n=92 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.38 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=90 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Basic pharmacology of drug classes in veterinary medicine
  • Species variations in drug use and response
  • Therapeutic and toxic effects based on mechanisms and patient characteristics
  • Cellular pathways and molecules as drug targets

Skills

  • Apply pharmacology principles to select drug classes for clinical use
  • Calculate drug dosages and describe drug formulations
  • Outline therapeutic drug classes for organ systems and infections

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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