The Veterinary Clinical Sciences Department is dedicated to providing quality instruction to veterinary students, interns, residents, and graduate students.
We strive to improve the health of companion animals through educating veterinarians, providing medical and surgical services, and generating new knowledge and best practices through research.
Teaching
Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS) faculty are integral to the education of the many types of learners we have in the College of Veterinary Medicine. VCS faculty teach in both classroom and clinical settings and have an opportunity to teach third- and fourth-year veterinary students, small animal interns and residents, and students in the veterinary medicine and comparative and molecular biosciences graduate programs.
Service
VCS faculty provide a full array of clinical services in the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center. In addition, faculty offer consultation, continuing education programs for practicing veterinarians, access to care and education through community medicine outreach programs, and educational opportunities and events available to the public.
Department Chair
Cathy Carlson, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor, Pathology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences (VCS)
Research interests: orthopaedic diseases in animals and humans; osteochondrosis in swine, dogs, and horses; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; diskospondylitis