Wrocław, Poland

Veterinary Medicine

Integrated Master's degree
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⇑Veterinary Medicine at UPWr

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: agriculture, forestry and fishery, veterinary
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.upwr.edu.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Veterinary Medicine the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A neighbour’s dog suddenly stops eating and seems very tired. What do you do?

2. How do you feel about biology and chemistry at school?

3. In anatomy classes you’ll study real animal organs. How do you feel about that?

4. You need to calm a frightened cat so it can be examined. How do you go about it?

5. Would you be willing to work with farm animals – cows, horses or pigs – in a barn early in the morning?

6. Lectures, clinical training and textbooks will be in English, in an international group. How does that sound?

7. A pet’s owner can’t afford an expensive treatment. How would you handle the conversation?

8. Putting animals to sleep is sometimes part of a vet’s job. How do you feel about that?

9. Veterinary studies are long and demanding, with a lot to learn by heart. How do you feel about that?

10. What motivates you most to study Veterinary Medicine?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals. The scope of veterinary medicine is wide, covering all animal species, both domesticated and wild, with a wide range of conditions which can affect different species.
Medicine
This is the way that physicians mend or end us,
Secundum artem: but although we sneer
In health—when ill, we call them to attend us,
Without the least propensity to jeer.
Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto X, Stanza 42.
Medicine
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
Tacitus, Annals, Book VI, Chapter XLVI. Same told by Suetonius, Life of Tiberius, Chapter LXVIII.
Medicine
The ignorance and general incompetency of the average graduate of the American medical Schools, at the time when he receives the degree which turns him loose upon the community, is something horrible to contemplate.
Charles Eliot, President of Harvard University (1869). In response to this call for reform, Harvard Professor of Surgery Harold Bigelow replied "He actually proposes to have written examinations for the degree of doctor of medicine. I had to tell him that he knew nothing about the quality of Harvard medical students. More than half of them can barely write. Of course they can't pass written examinations...No medical school has thought it proper to risk large existing classes and larger receipts by introducing more rigorous standards".
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