The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

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Our Mission

The primary missions of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital are to provide expert healthcare for the hospital's patients and to serve as a learning environment for students, interns and residents.

As a result, students learn to manage their patients in a professional manner under the watchful eyes of board-certified specialists, while clients and referring veterinarians receive expert care for their animals, using many diagnostic techniques and treatments possible only in this type of medical environment.

The Teaching Hospital also serves as a laboratory for the investigation of spontaneous disease processes and as a source of disease warnings for Georgia and neighboring states.

Farm practice services administered through the Teaching Hospital provide veterinary care and advice to clients on farms throughout the state. Hospital services and facilities are also available to private practitioners on a referral or consultation basis, and for continuing education activities.

In addition to the more traditional specialties, the Teaching Hospital has an active exotic animal medicine and surgery service, providing care for exotic companion animals at the hospital and consulting with caretakers of exhibition animals at nearby zoos, such as Zoo Atlanta and the Riverbank Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina.

Faculty members on the hospital are trained in various areas of veterinary medicine and surgery: internal medicine, surgery, radiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, urology, neurology, gastroenterology, reproduction, equine lameness, food animal and equine medicine and surgery, as well as production animal medicine.

The hospital provides state of the art capabilities in diagnostic imaging, including CT scanning, nuclear scintigraphy, and various methods of ultrasonography. Among the advanced therapeutic modalities employed are radioisotope therapy, brachytherapy and teletherapy, laser surgery, and minimally invasive surgical techniques, such as arthroscopy and laparoscopy.

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