Animal medicine, commonly known as "veterinary medicine", is a comprehensive subject based on biology, which studies the occurrence and progress of diseases in animals (including poultry, domestic pets and wild animals). ), and on this basis, diagnose and prevent diseases, thus protecting animal health. The research scope of animals 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 other fields.
At present, the main courses of veterinary specialty in New Zealand are: diagnostic procedures, anesthesia monitoring equipment, basic animal diseases, veterinary nursing, pharmacology and toxicology veterinary medicine, veterinary biostatistics and popular veterinary medicine, comprehensive research-veterinary science and technology, advanced clinical research, animal nutrition, genetic livestock improvement, reproduction and lactation physiology, dairy production, meat production, intensive livestock feeding, animal emergency response and advanced animal behavior.
Veterinarians in New Zealand are recommended by the New Zealand Animal Research Medical College, and must have a professional degree in veterinary medicine and can be registered through the New Zealand Veterinary Board. The veterinary undergraduate course of Massey University in New Zealand is currently a course that New Zealand can register with the Veterinary Board.
The career stage of this course is taught in the North Pa Campus of Massey University. In the vocational stage, only 75 local students and 24 international students are enrolled each year. The veterinary undergraduate course of Massey University is a five-year course, with an average of 220 students attending the semester every year, because there is no enrollment restriction in the semester; Of course, only students with excellent grades in the semester can continue their professional study.