Veterinary Medicine

What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The objectives of the Master Degree Single Cycle Course in Veterinary Medicine are to provide students with an appropriate preparation from a technical, professional and ethical point of view, in order to train professionals capable of:

• ascertain and protect the health status and welfare of domestic pets, farm and wild animals;
• prevent and treat infectious and parasitic animal diseases;
• inspect and control animal health; supervise the production and marketing of food of animal origin;
• anaging genetic selection schemes and aspects of breeding technology, nutrition and reproduction;
• solving clinical contingencies in animals.

What do you learn?

• Diagnostics, treatment and prophylaxis of animal diseases belonging to the various species, especially those of zootechnical and pet interest by assessing any pathological states of the animal;
• safeguarding animal welfare in the production chain of food of animal origin, pet food and food used for scientific purposes;
• epidemiological monitoring of the territory, in the control of foodstuffs of animal origin in order to guarantee their wholesomeness for human safety, in animal welfare and in the prevention of diseases, especially zoonotic diseases with a One Health perspective, in the productive, reproductive and nutritional management of farmed species, in the control and certification of the agri-food chain;
• working at the interface between animal and human health in a perspective that takes into account environmental determinants, with a focus on emerging infections, non-communicable diseases and the alteration of structures and thus of the functioning of biodiversity most often as a consequence of anthropogenic impact;
• support to relevant industrial sectors (zootechnical, pharmaceutical, feed, production and distribution of food of animal origin);
• knowledge from the One Health perspective, skills and experience to be applied to a range of health issues such as food safety, antibiotic resistance, animal health and welfare topics, environmental protection.

What can you do with it?

• Professional activities related to the veterinary profession, i.e. clinical (including behavioural), surgical and obstetric-gynaecological activities, both ambulatory and field, in livestock and pets;
• work in public and private industry (zootechnical, pharmaceutical, feed, food processing of animal origin);
• third-cycle studies (PhD and postgraduate school), second-level university masters, research grants, postgraduate scholarships and thus access to teaching and research careers within universities;
• after obtaining the appropriate qualifications, the graduate can work in the veterinary functional areas (animal health, food, environment and animal welfare) of the National Health Service and in other national public bodies (Region, Province, ISS, Ministries), both at Ministerial level and in Local Health Authorities, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institutes and the Armed Forces;
• subject to successful completion of a specific post-graduate training course: activities within quality assessment and certification bodies, quality assurance in production chains.