Department of Medicine

Organizational Structure

Department of Medicine, University of Veterinary Science, is organized by nine teaching staff and six office staff. The organizational structure of department is one professor, two Associate Professor, three Lecturers and four Assistant Lecturers. Professor Dr. Hlaing Hlaing Myint is head of Department of Medicine.

Responsible Subjects

Department of Medicine is responsible for teaching of three subjects, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Medicine, and Animal Health. Animal Health is taught to third year students from Bachelor of Animal Science (BASc), Clinical Medicine is taught to fourth year DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) students and Preventive Medicine is delivered to final year DVM students by theoretically and practically. Other departmental activities are responsible for supervising the Master and Doctorate students, final year graduation thesis, theme paper writing and presentation and invitation of external Lecturer to deliver their experience.

Field of Study

The field studies of Department of Medicine are:

1. Prevalence studies of common infectious diseases of food producing animals.

2. Assessment of efficacy of commercially available vaccines in chickens.

3. Alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters in livestock production.

4. Nutritional modulation of immune response in poultry.

5. Prevalence of Mycotoxins in feed and feedstuffs, and 6. Diagnosis and treatment of mastitis in dairy cows.

Department of Medicine in University of Veterinary Science has long being established since 1957, together with the veterinary education establishment (VEE) in Myanmar. Several departmental head have been changed during the 63 years of development. I will try to the best of my abilities for the development and teaching and research of Department of Medicine.

The Department of Medicine is solely responsible for teaching of Clinical Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Animal Health to the undergrad and post-grad students. Teaching of veterinary medicine will always be in-line with recommendation by the World Organization for Animal Health and modernized by using updated literatures and relevant reference books. Research on several research areas of veterinary medicine has been conducted by the academic staff and post graduate students of Department of Medicine. Department of Medicine will take-part in solving the existing problems of livestock sector in Myanmar by doing university-industry collaboration.