About This Department

Department: Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine
Insitution: Iowa State University
  Ames, IA
 

The Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine (VDPAM) department at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine consists of approximately 55 faculty and 120 staff. Faculty in the department teach approximately 65 courses to veterinary students. VDPAM offers a certificate program and a graduate degree program in Veterinary Preventive Medicine, doctorate in Population Sciences in Animal Health, and residency programs in large animal internal medicine, large animal surgery, clinical pharmacology, theriogenology, dairy and large animal specialty areas for the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners. The Swine Medicine Education Center was established in 2011 and has quickly become an international resource for education of swine focused veterinary students and practitioners.

Our faculty and staff are extensively connected to and serve food animal agriculture through the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory which utilizes world class technology to provide timely and comprehensive diagnostic services by coordination of over 70,000 cases per year submitted from practicing veterinarians. VDPAM faculty and staff operate the Food Animal and Camelid Hospital, the ISU Veterinary Field Service unit, the ISU Embryo Transfer Service and the Food Animal Theriogenology Service which provide the latest medical and surgical services and reproductive technologies to the region.