Core Competencies of a Veterinary Graduate

1. Organisation of Veterinary, Animal Husbandry & Allied Services.- 2. Professional Behaviour and Ethical Standards in Veterinary Practice.- 3. Basic Comprehension of different aspects of Veterinary Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry & normal metabolic processes.- 4. Core aspects of Livestock Production Management and Animal Husbandry (including pets, birds & wildlife).- 5. Basic Concepts in Animal Nutrition and Breeding.- 6. Essential competencies in Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pathology.- 7. Comprehensive knowledge of non-infectious diseases of livestock including pets, birds and wildlife.- 8. Comprehensive knowledge about major infectious diseases of livestock, poultry, pets and wildlife species.- 9. Aseptic Collection, Preservation & Dispatch of Samples from Diseased Animals.- 10. Key Concepts and Principles of Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Animal Diseases.- 11. Various concepts of Zoonoses and Public Health including Safe Food Production & Food Hygiene.- 12. Veterinary drugs & biologicals, their prescription, dispensation & drug resistance issues.- 13. Various Aspects of Veterinary Clinical Reasoning, Economics, Health informatics & Telemedicine.- 14. Common Diagnostic, Therapeutic & Surgical Approaches Pain Management, Euthanasia in Veterinary Clinical Practice Clinical Emergency & Critical Care Assisted Reproductive Technologies.- 15. Establishment & Management of Companion Animal Clinical Practice.- 16. Risk identification, analysis and management  17. Estimation of age & dentition in important livestock species and pets Anti-mortem and Post-mortem examination General and Special certifications.- 18. Resilience in Veterinary Profession.- 19. Implications of Climate Change on Animals Concept of the One Health Approach.- 20. Importance of Harnessing & Integrating

Dr. Subhash Verma has an extensive 25-year career in various professional capacities. Currently positioned as a professor of veterinary microbiology and heading both the veterinary parasitology department and the veterinary emergency response unit-north zone at the Veterinary College in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, he also serves as an associate editor for an international journal. Formerly, he led the fisheries department for approximately five years at Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar (CSK) Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University. After completing his undergraduate veterinary degree, Dr. Verma pursued a master's in veterinary microbiology, followed by a second master's in immunopharmacology with distinction at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, under a British Chevening Scholarship. He obtained an Overseas Research Scholarship for a Ph.D. in Immunogenetics from the University of Glasgow and conducted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome Centre of Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow. Recognized as a Fellow of the National Academy of Veterinary Sciences, India, Dr. Verma has significantly contributed to scientific research. His achievements include deciphering cattle antibody diversity mechanisms, pioneering the functional assessment and mapping of cattle activation-induced cytidine deaminase, characterizing virulent determinants, and developing an indirect ELISA for P. multocida. He also played a key role in creating and characterizing the AprV2 nanovaccine against Footrot. His research output comprises numerous high-quality papers, books, book chapters, manuals, sequences and microbes submitted to international and national repositories.

Prof. Yashpal Singh Malik is serving as the Dean of the College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India. He is a recipient of the prestigious position "ICAR National Fellow" at the ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute. His areasof