Spring 2027

Swine Medicine

Basic swine medicine clinical skills for diagnosing and treating common diseases in individual pigs and populations, covering production impacts, regulatory influences, and biosecurity principles.

offering recorded1 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Simon Peek

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.78 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 83.0% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge (commensurate with an entry-level mixed animal practitioner in the Upper Midwest) about basic swine medicine principles.

  • Apply and integrate knowledge from medicine and epidemiology so that they can investigate disease outbreaks in swine operations.

  • Acquire sufficient knowledge to pass the swine medicine questions on the NAVLE licensure exam.

  • Define basic swine science terminology, farm structure and expected biological performance.

  • Summarize the unique characteristics of swine populations that influence diagnosis and treatment of disease.

  • Perform a systematic evaluation of a swine population that identifies the correct individual animals for physical exam or diagnostic testing.

  • Describe the parameters, and the normal ranges expected for those parameters, on a physical exam of a healthy pig.

  • Identify the correct restraint procedure for a specific age and class of pig.

  • Describe the best testing strategy for a population given a common swine disease and diagnostic objective.

  • Recommend a vaccination program to a swine farmer.

  • Synthesize the following information to determine a case specific treatment plan for common pathogens found in swine: clinical relevance to swine health, zoonotic potential, clinical significance of strain variation in etiology, preferred diagnostic test, usefulness of serology, usefulness of oral fluids, efficacy of vaccination, and availability of legal antimicrobial treatments.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing
MEDSC-V 635

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.78 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 83.0% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SIMON PEEK is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 1000

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.78 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.77 GPA, 83.0% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Diagnosis and treatment of common swine diseases in individuals and populations
  • Production practices, farm structure, and their impact on swine medicine practice
  • Regulatory influences, biosecurity, biocontainment, and bioexclusion
  • Epidemiological investigation of disease outbreaks in swine operations

Skills

  • Diagnose and treat common swine diseases; synthesize clinical, diagnostic, and treatment data for case-specific plans
  • Evaluate swine populations systematically and select appropriate restraint procedures by age and class
  • Design population-level diagnostic testing strategies and recommend vaccination programs

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 · 0.12 GPA average error.

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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

UW–Madison

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MEDSC-V 635 · Spring 2027

Swine Medicine

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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