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SWINE MEDICINE

MEDSC-V 635
Course Description

Focuses on basic swine medicine clinical skills including diagnosis and treatment of common swine diseases that present in individual pigs and populations. Influences of production practices and farm structure will be introduced as they impact the successful practice of swine medicine. Additionally, regulatory influences unique to swine veterinary medicine and principles of biosecurity/biocontainment and bioexclusion will be discussed.

Prerequisties

Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.78

5.57% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

0.13% from Historical

A Rate
68.42%

29.59% from Historical

Class Size
95

8.78% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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