VTMED 6330

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VTMED 6330
Basic Nutrition for Veterinary Students

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Introduction to nutrition, including basic concepts in metabolism from a comparative aspect.  This class will focus primarily on monogastric nutrition with some comparisons to hindgut and foregut fermenters.  Lifestage nutrition and common ailments including osteoarthirits, obesity, immunology and cognitive dysfunction will be highlighted as common ailments for nutritional intervention in companion animals (dogs, cats).


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: VTMED 5310.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: second- and third-year veterinary students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Four Week - Second. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 11742 VTMED 6330   LEC 001

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    • MR
    • Feb 17 - Mar 14, 2025

    • Wakshlag, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person