2. Animal medicine can be divided into three main directions at present, namely preventive veterinary medicine, clinical veterinary medicine and basic veterinary medicine.
3. Training objectives: This major aims to train veterinarians with strong foundation, strong ability, high quality and wide adaptability. Graduates of this major should have systematic and in-depth professional knowledge, extensive knowledge of natural science and humanities, innovative consciousness and development potential, strong adaptability, the ability to engage in animal medical treatment, law enforcement supervision, management, teaching, scientific research and technical services, and professionals engaged in veterinary medicine, veterinary management and law enforcement, veterinary technical services, veterinary education and scientific research and related departments.
4. Development prospect:
The development prospect of animal medicine is promising. At the end of 2004, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security officially listed "pet health worker" as a new occupation, so people linked this new occupation with "animal medicine specialty". The research scope of animal medicine is no longer limited to animal husbandry, but has been extended to public health, social preventive medicine, companion animal and ornamental animal medical care and food hygiene, environmental protection, pharmaceutical industry and many other fields. In particular, the emergence of a new occupation of pet health care workers has aroused people's curiosity and concern about animal medicine. Pet health workers are mainly engaged in pet breeding and disease prevention, daily health care, management and scientific beauty care of pets, on-site rescue, illness care, postoperative care and rehabilitation care of pets after injury.
After graduation, students majoring in animal medicine can engage in animal husbandry and veterinary management, inspection of import and export animals and their products, meat hygiene inspection, feed industry, food safety, environmental protection, diagnosis and prevention of livestock and poultry diseases, medical care for companion animals, experimental animals, comparative medicine, public health, biology and so on. If you don't want to be a veterinarian or open your own pet clinic like most students, you can also go to an animal quarantine station or an animal production enterprise. If you are interested in animal infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu, I suggest you continue your studies and stay in universities or research institutions to specialize in this field in the future.