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Public Health and Preventive Medicine

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Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Academics Programmes (Courses)

a. Undergraduate

The Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine Dept. is involved in teaching Public Health and Preventive Medicine clinics to 600L clinical students. Food hygiene including abattoir visits and other food processing outfits augment the clinical training.

Semester I
i.  VMPH 101 Veterinary Ethics.
ii. VMPH 501  Biostatistics
iii. VMPH 503. Epidemiology.
iv. VMPH 601  Zoonoses
iv. VMPH 603  Livestock Insurance.

Semester II
i. VMPH 300.  Computers in Veterinary medicine
ii. VMPH 502  Preventive Medicine.
iii. VMPH 504.  Food Hygiene.
iv. VMPH 506.  Animal Disease Surveillance.
v. VMPH  602.   State Medicine and Jurisprudence

  1. Post graduate

The Department offers MSc and PhD degrees in Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Post graduate courses offered by the department include:
i.   VMPH 701  Biometry
ii.  VMPH 703 Advanced Epidemiology 
ii.  VMPH 705 Bacterial Zoonoses
iv. VMPH 707 Parasitic Zoonoses
v.  VMPH 709 Economics of Animal Disease control
vi. VMPH 711 Meat Hygiene and AbattoirManagement
vii. VMPH 713 Milk Hygiene
viii VMPH 715 Introduction to Molecular Genetics
ix.  VMPH 702 Principles of Epiemiology
x.   VMPH 704 Environmental Health
xi.  VMPH 706 Viral Zoonoses
xii. VMPH 708 Public Health administration
xiii. VMPH 710 Herd Health Management
xiv. VMPH 712 Fish and Shellfish Hygiene
xv. VMPH 714  Food Preservation
xvi. VMPH 716 Molecular Epidemiology
xvii. VMPH 742 Problems.