Degree: Medico Veterinario (MV)
Recognition status:

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Course
The Course of Veterinary Medicine was authorized to operate by State Decree No. 003/99 of May 12, 1999. Recognition of the course made by State Decree No. 4318 of February 10, 2005.

80 places are offered annually distributed in two seasons of entry (40 places per semester).

With qualification in Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine course is conducted full time.

Tickets Students develop academic activities in system of "blocks", ie, attend the courses and activities related to the course in an orderly manner and successively, in order to provide better consolidation of knowledge in veterinary medicine.

Profile of Egress
Veterinarian, with generalist, humanist, critical and reflective, able to understand and translate the needs of individuals, social groups and communities, with respect to activities in the profession, within their specific fields of expertise in animal health and clinical veterinary, environmental sanitation and preventive veterinary medicine, public health and inspection technology and products of animal husbandry, animal production and reproduction, and ecology and environment protection.

Also be aware of social factors, cultural and political economy and government agriculture and agribusiness; ability of logical reasoning, observation, interpretation and analysis of data and information and knowledge essential for Veterinary Medicine, for identification and troubleshooting.

The Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine must possess general skills:
• Health care: health professionals, within his professional sphere, must be able to develop prevention, promotion, protection and rehabilitation, both individually and collectively. Each professional must ensure that their practice is conducted in an integrated and continuous with other instances of the health system, being able to think critically, to analyze the problems of society and to seek solutions to them. Practitioners should perform its services with the highest quality standards and the principles of ethics / bioethics, taking into account that the responsibility for health care does not end with the technical act, but with the resolution of health problem, both individually and collectively;
• Decision making: the work of health professionals should be based on the ability to take orders with the appropriate use, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, workforce, medicines, equipment, procedures and practices. To this end, they must possess skills and abilities to assess, classify and determine the more adequate, based on scientific evidence;
• Communication: the health professionals must be accessible and shall maintain the confidentiality of information entrusted to them, in interaction with other health professionals and the general public. Communication involves verbal, non-verbal and writing skills and reading, the domain of at least one foreign language and communication technologies and information;
• Leadership in multiprofessional teamwork, health professionals should be able to assume leadership positions, keeping in view the welfare of the community. Leadership involves commitment, responsibility, empathy, ability to decision making, communication and management to effectively and efficiently;
• Administration and management: professionals must be able to take initiative, make the management and administration of both the labor force, the physical and material resources and information, the same way you should be able to be entrepreneurs, managers, employers or leaders in the health team;
• Continuing education: professionals should be able to learn continuously, both in its formation, as in their practice. Thus, health professionals must learn to learn and take responsibility and commitment to their education and training / stages of future generations of professionals, providing conditions for which there is mutual benefit among future professionals and professional services, including stimulating mobility and developing academic / professional training and cooperation through national and international networks.

The veterinarian should be able, within their profession, develop initiatives to crop science in relation to Animal Production, Food Production, Animal Health and Environmental Protection.

The Undergraduate Program in Veterinary Medicine shall, also, training courses in specific areas of their expertise: animal health and production, public health, biotechnology and environmental protection, with specific abilities and skills to:
• ethical principles in the profession;
• interpret clinical signs, laboratory tests and morpho-functional;
• identify and classify the etiological factors, understand and elucidate the pathogenesis, as well as prevent, control and eradicate diseases that affect animals;
• establish diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prophylactic measures, and individual stocks;
• develop, implement and manage agricultural projects, environmental and related to the profession;
• Develop, plan, guide and applying modern breeding techniques, handling, nutrition, feeding, breeding, production and animal breeding;
• plan, execute, manage and evaluate programs of animal health, public health and technology from products of animal origin;
• perform the sanitary inspection and technological products of animal origin;
• plan, develop, implement, manage and participate in projects in the biotechnology of reproduction and organic products;
• plan, organize and manage agro-industrial units;
• perform skills, developing and interpreting technical reports in all fields of knowledge of Veterinary Medicine;
• plan, develop, implement, manage, participate in agricultural projects and agribusiness;
• relate to various social and work in multidisciplinary teams, defense and monitoring of environment and social welfare;
• practice as a way to articulate the social context, understanding it as a form of participation and social contribution;
• learn methods and techniques of research and development of academic and scientific;
• assimilate the changing conceptual and technological developments made in the global context;
• assess and respond to critical sense the information being offered at the graduate and professional practice.

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