Veterinary Medicine
Twenty-nine labs and three annexes constitute the School of
Veterinary Medicine’s complete infrastructure. Every year, the
Veterinary Hospital carries out six thousand clinical and surgical cases
and pathology and radiology exams. Linked to the Hospital, a clinic
helps farmers. In addition, the school has two experimental farms in
the Greater Belo Horizonte area: the Professor Hélio Barbosa
farm, at Igarapé, and another at Pedro Leopoldo.
Of its 70 teachers, 22 have a doctoral degree, 44 have a master’s,
and 50% are enrolled in doctorate programs abroad. The school’s
main research areas at present focus on animal reproduction (handling,
physiopathology, and biotechnology), residues in animal produce, development
of biologics, evaluation of food and agro-industrial waste, mineral
nutrition in animals, intensive meat, milk, and egg production, and
production and health-disease organization.