Spring 2027

Regulatory Veterinary Medicine and Public Health

Regulatory Veterinary Medicine and Public Health covers veterinary obligations in preventing zoonoses, judicious antibiotic use, and ensuring food safety from animal origins.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Adel TalaatLaurie Larson

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Summarize and compare the clinical presentations of selected zoonotic diseases in both animals and humans.

  • Explain at a technical level, and in a language appropriate for educating clients, the role(s) that animals play in disease transmission and the relative risks for human infections posed by contact with animals.

  • Uphold the premise that “One Health” is an important framework for addressing important public health challenges and describe the ways that veterinarians are involved.

  • Outline the roles and responsibilities of veterinarians and government agencies in animal importation, response to disasters, animal abuse, and the control of zoonotic and animal diseases.

  • Outline the roles played by veterinarians in the safety of food of animal origin and how carcasses are processed and inspected.

  • Explain ways that veterinarians work to decrease antibiotic and other drug residues in food products and stem the emergence of antibiotic resistance through careful stewardship of antibiotics.

Source: UW Guide

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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
PATH-BIO 515

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with third year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=96 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.90 GPA, 97.7% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=94 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADEL TALAAT is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

LAURIE LARSON is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. 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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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.84 GPA, 91.5% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.82 GPA, 90.6% A/AB (n=96 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Zoonoses prevention and clinical presentations of zoonotic diseases in animals and humans.
  • Judicious antibiotic use and stewardship to stem antibiotic resistance.
  • Food safety of animal origin, including carcass processing and inspection.
  • One Health framework for addressing public health challenges.
  • Veterinary and government agency roles in importation, disaster response, animal abuse, and disease control.

Skills

  • Summarize zoonotic disease presentations and explain animal roles in disease transmission to clients.
  • Describe One Health frameworks and outline veterinary and government agency roles in public health challenges.
  • Outline veterinary roles in food safety, carcass inspection, and antibiotic stewardship to reduce resistance.

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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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 · 0.04 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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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

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
PATH-BIO 515 · Spring 2027

Regulatory Veterinary Medicine and Public Health

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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Model & dataset provenance 
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