Education
The four main pillars of teaching in BMS are undergraduate courses, graduate courses and seminars, veterinary foundation courses, and veterinary elective courses. Faculty members in the department are often engaged in more than one of these areas. The veterinary curriculum is centered on problem-based learning, in which faculty facilitators guide discussions in small groups using real-world clinical cases as a springboard for learning foundational biomedical sciences. Some faculty participate in complementary lectures, labs, and academic coaching as well to support student learning. The undergraduate curriculum is primarily didactic. Our department provides leadership for the Animal Physiology concentration of undergraduate biology majors and many of our faculty (both tenure-track and non-tenure-track) are involved in undergraduate advising also. Finally, most of our tenure-track faculty contribute to curricula associated with different PhD fields of study that are part of the Graduate School.
