Veterinary Undergraduate at Nippon Veterinary and Animalscience University
Undergraduate students majoring in veterinary science are required to complete a six-year professional education program in which students learn and study the clinic of various animals including industrial animals, pets, wild animals, etc., the quarantine of animals, fish diseases,
epidemics common to men and animals, and how to breed and improve livestock, how to secure the safety of food and medicine, etc. The basic veterinary courses include anatomy, biology, biochemistry, etc.; the clinical veterinary courses internal medicine, surgery, radiology, etc.; and the applied veterinary courses public health, laboratory and wild animals, fish diseases, etc. Students learn these courses intensively, participating in practices, and deepen the knowledge about such practical areas as biogenetics and the management of animal clinic. In the courses of clinical practices a special emphasis is placed upon the diagnosis and treatment of infected animals, especially cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and cats.