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The College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University has excellent facilities, technologies, and equipment to support teaching, research, and clinical service.
The Veterinary Medical
Center is the hub of college activities. It consists of 170,000
square-feet of office, teaching, and research space, as well as the Veterinary Teaching
Hospital (VTH).
The VTH is a premier veterinary referral hospital with a wide range
of board-certified specialists and a large and diverse caseload. In
fact, with about 24,000 patient visits annually, the VTH has one of the
largest caseloads in the nation. An additional 113,000 animals are seen
during field service calls. A large dairy herd internship program
allows access to some of the biggest dairy operations in the
Midwest.
The large caseload provides students with excellent hands-on
experience with a wide range of animals and a variety of diseases and
injuries. The VTH also has a general practice section to ensure that
students also work on more traditional cases and learn wellness and
disease prevention.
The large caseload also provides faculty with a sufficient
population of animals to mark disease trends and perform statistical
analyses.
The Matilda R. Wilson Pegasus Critical Care Center is a
9,000-square-foot facility that allows the Veterinary Teaching Hospital
to house large-animal patients with infectious diseases in an isolated
place, minimizing the risk of spreading disease to other animals and
people while providing state-of-the-art critical care.
The center includes a number of special features, including ten
individual isolation stalls, on-site laboratory capability, and a
specialized ventilation system that helps prevent the spread of
infectious diseases. There is also video equipment that allows clients
to see their animals without entering the isolation stall.
The Animal Cancer Care
Clinic is the first of two phases to establish a Center for
Comparative Oncology. The clinic has two levels – one above and one
below ground. The building was constructed in such a way that it can
support two additional floors in the future that will house research
labs, teaching labs, a lecture hall, and office space.
Some special features of the Animal Cancer Care Clinic include 12
exam rooms, a diagnostic imaging suite, diagnostic cytology teaching
laboratory, chemotherapy administration suite, minor procedures suits,
radio-isotope suite, hospitalization wards, quiet room, and a linear
accelerator. The linear accelerator has multiple beam energy
capabilities and a 52-multileaf collimator.
The Diagnostic Center for Population and
Animal Health (DCPAH) offers diagnostic services to veterinarians
and owners of livestock, zoo animals, and companion animals in the form
of postmortem examinations, clinical pathology, surgical biopsy
interpretations, bacteriology, endocrinology, nutrition, parasitology,
immunodiagnostics, toxicology, and virology.
Special features of the 152,000-gross-square-foot facility include
large biosafety-level 3 animal necropsy and microbiology spaces, as
well as a fish diagnostics center.
The DCPAH also has office and laboratory space devoted to the
Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Research and
Technology Section and office space for the Michigan Department of
Agriculture.
The DCPAH employs about 120 professional, technical, and support
staff that yearly process over 160,000 diagnostic submissions and
perform more than 1.2 million diagnostic tests.
In addition to providing full-service diagnostic testing for
Michigan, the DCPAH also serves as a learning center for students in
the College of Veterinary Medicine and other colleges at Michigan State
University. The DCPAH has laboratory and classroom space that is used
for teaching veterinary students, providing postgraduate educational
and research opportunities, training pathology residents, and
conducting continuing education programs.
The diagnostic center is fully accredited by the American
Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians.
A six-story, 200,000 net-square-foot Biomedical and Physical
Sciences Building was opened in April 2002. Of the three departments
housed there, two – Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and
Physiology
– are shared by CVM with other colleges.
Rather than being organized by department, the building is divided into
interdisciplinary areas assigned to the study of chronic diseases, such
as cancer diabetes, and heart disease; genetics and genetic diseases;
environmental quality and bioremediation; materials science; and
elementary particle physics, astrophysics, and instrumentation.
The National Food Safety & Toxicology
Center is a 115,000-square foot building housing laboratory and
other experimental facilities for researchers with expertise in
toxicology, carcinogenesis, pathology, analytical chemistry,
microbiology, and epidemiology. All the research is done in support of
the mission of making our foods safer and more secure. Also included is
an experimental food processing facility devoted to work on samples
that contain hazardous microbial or chemical contaminants.
Administered by the College of Veterinary Medicine, the center is
home for faculty from sixteen departments at Michigan State
University.
The Mary Anne McPhail
Equine Performance Center is an 18,000 square-foot,
state-of-the-art facility for clinical and research studies of equine
performance problems in all types of horses. In addition to housing
sophisticated gait analysis equipment, it contains an indoor arena for
lunging, riding, and driving, and firm surfaces for lunging and
evaluating horses on a straight line.
The college’s high-speed treadmill, used for both research and
diagnosis, is housed nearby.
The Training
Center for Dairy Professionals extends the long-standing
cooperation between the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Green
Meadow Farms, Inc., in Elsie, Michigan. The center makes use of Green
Meadow Farms’ large dairy herd, modern facilities, and highly developed
management infrastructure, along with the college’s faculty and
facilities to provide specialized training in dairy practice for
veterinary students, preveterinary students, graduate veterinarians,
and other professionals serving the dairy industry.
The center also provides facilities and demonstration material for
the continuing education of veterinarians and other professionals
working in the dairy industry and creates an infrastructure for
clinical research in the health management of dairy cows.
Special features of the center include two classrooms with farm
intranet, Internet, and LCD projectors; student boarding and dining
facilities; office space; microbiology and chemistry laboratory
equipment; a heated surgical theater; a special-needs barn including 16
hospital stalls; a maternity barn with 24 stalls and a heated
observation area; and a comprehensive animal records database
accessible from many locations on the farm.
The Learning and
Assessment Center resulted from a multi-college effort to help
health professions students improve their communication and diagnostic
skills. The participating colleges include the Colleges of Veterinary
Medicine, Human Medicine, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine, along with
the Medical Technology Program, which is housed in the College of
Natural Science.
The center contains 20 examination rooms where students can practice
their skills using standardized patients/clients, simulation models,
and computers.
Each exam room is equipped with video and audio data capture systems
that can be used to provide feedback to the students and to record
performance for evaluation.
Standardized patients are people who have been trained to portray a
given disease or medical problem, like diabetes, anemia,
gastrointestinal problems, heart problems, and the like.
Standardized clients are trained to play the role of animal owners in veterinary scenarios representing various animal health problems. Live animals come with them, A simulation laboratory is available that allows trainees to interact with devices and inanimate models for the purposes of developing key procedural skills and ascertaining whether they have reached basic competency. Several canine and feline manikin models are available for veterinary students to work with, such as Critical Care Fluffy, and K-9 CPR Jerry.
The 52,000 square-foot University Research Containment Facility
provides a setting where investigators can conveniently conduct
research under strictly controlled conditions.
Species ranging from rodents to farm animals can be studied in space designed to meet federal guidelines. The unit has 28 animal isolation rooms conforming to criteria for biosafety level 2, with the additional capability of housing biosafety level 3 projects.
Full-service animal husbandry services are provided under the
supervision of a veterinarian.
The building also features an aquatic facility for study of
infectious and toxic agents in fish.
The Vivarium is the
animal-holding facility located within the Veterinary Medical Center.
It is staffed and equipped to house all animals, from rodents to dogs
to cattle, in support of research and teaching. A technologist,
certified by the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science,
supervises activities in the facility.
The college takes great pride in housing an Information Technology
Center. This center supports the state-of-the-art information
technology found throughout the college and also assists in developing
and supporting innovative teaching technologies for the clinic and
student learning areas.
Finally, the CVM has two farms close to campus, the Veterinary Research Farm and the Bennett Farm, where teaching and research animals are kept. These farms and our resident livestock and horses give students an opportunity to handle and work with food animals and horses in natural settings and also to learn to care for their well-being.
