The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is the

veterinary school Veterinary education is the tertiary education of veterinarians. To become a veterinarian, one must first complete a veterinary degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM , V.M.D. , BVS, BVSc, BVMS, BVM, cand.med.vet). In the United States and ...

and one of the ten colleges of

Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant uni ...

. Established in 1899, it is the sole veterinary school in the state of

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and one of the oldest in the United States.

Departments

The College of Veterinary Medicine is organized into three departments, schools and units: *Department of Veterinary Clinical Science *Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience *Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology *The Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health *The School of Molecular Biosciences * Center for Reproductive Biology

Accreditation

The college is fully accredited by four key national accrediting agencies: *The American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA-COE) *The Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC), *The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD), *The

American Animal Hospital Association The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) is a non-profit organization for companion animal veterinary hospitals. Established in 1933, the association is the only accrediting body for small animal hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. The ass ...

(AAHA).

Research

The College of Veterinary Medicine conducts abundant research toward the benefit of animal and human well being. An example of this goal was the development of less painful

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for livestock by college lecturer Keith Farrell in the mid-1960s. In the fiscal year of 2006, the CVM had funded with more than $12.5 million in conducting research, that specialized in food-and water-borne diseases, neurobiology, cardiovascular medicine and physiology, immunology and infectious diseases, and microbial genomics and proteomics.

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