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College of Veterinary Medicine

Degree Program Table

Program Outcomes Undergraduate Graduate
Veterinary Medicine - DVM   View Outcomes

Graduate

Veterinary Medicine - DVM

Program-Level

  1. Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making
    1. Animal Information - Gathers and assimilates relevant problems to arrive at differential diagnoses
    2. Differential Diagnoses - Synthesizes and prioritizes problems to arrive at differential diagnoses
    3. Diagnostic and/or Treatment Plan - Creates and adjusts a diagnostic and/or treatment plan based on available evidence
    4. Diagnostic or Treatment Plan - Incorporates animal welfare, client expectations, and economic considerations into the diagnostic or treatment plan
    5. Prioritizing - Prioritizes situational urgency and allocates resources
    6. Adapts Knowledge - Adapts knowledge to varied scenarios and contexts
    7. Recognizing Limitations - Recognizes limitations of knowledge, skills and resources and consults as needed
  2. Individual Animal Care and Management
    1. Procedures and Post-procedural Care - Performs veterinary procedures and post-procedural care
    2. Wellness and Preventative Care - Promotes comprehensive wellness and preventive care
  3. Animal Population Care and Management
    1. Management Principles - Applies population management principles in compliance with legal regulations and economic realities
    2. Biosecurity Protocols - Recommends and evaluates protocols for biosecurity
    3. Stakeholders - Advises stakeholders on practices that promote animal welfare
  4. Public Health
    1. Recognition - Recognizes zoonotic, transboundary, and emerging diseases and responds accordingly
    2. Health and Safety - Promotes the health and safety of people and the environment
  5. Communication
    1. Listen and Communicate - Listens attentively and communicates professionally
    2. Communication and Diverse Audiences - Adapts communication style to diverse audiences
    3. Documentation and Forms - Prepares documentation/forms appropriate for the intended audience
  6. Collaboration
    1. Contributions - Solicits, respects, and integrates contributions from others
    2. Leader or Team Member - Functions as a leader or team member based on experience, skills and context
    3. Ongoing Relationships - Maintains ongoing relationships to provide continuity of collaborative effort

    4. Inclusivity - Demonstrates inclusivity and cultural competence

  7. Professionalism and Professional Identity
    1. Ethical Approach - Adopts an ethical approach to meeting professional obligations
    2. Time Management - Practices time management
    3. Plan for Improvements - Reflects on personal actions and uses feedback to plan improvement
    4. Self-directed Learning - Engages in self-directed learning
    5. Wellbeing - Attends to wellbeing of self and others
    6. Career Planning - Engages in career planning
  8. Financial and Practice Management
    1. Financial Factors - Weighs financial factors in personal and business decision-making
    2. Compliance - Delivers veterinary services compliant with legal and regulatory requirements
    3. Advocacy - Advocates for the health and safety of patients, clients, and members of the team within the workplace
  9. Scholarship
    1. Evidence-based Medicine - Practices evidence-based veterinary medicine
    2. Dissemination of Knowledge - Disseminates knowledge and practices to stakeholders

 

 

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