16th Jul. 2021

International Veterinary and Conservation Medicine Education Program
Syllabus for 2021
¨In 2021, all classes are delivered by on-demand video lectures.

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Each class consists of 8 subjects (or less, yet equivalent to 8 subjects).

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Successfully completing a class, a credit is given by Hokkaido University. The credit will certify
the student’s competency while giving priority to participate in the proceeding IVCMEP
conducted on-site at Hokkaido University and other parts of Japan.

¨The program starts from 25th October 2021 and ends on 31st January 2022.

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The dead-line of registration is 23rd August 2021.

NOTE**: Equivalent to 2 subjects***: Equivalent to 3 subjects****: Equivalent to 4 subjectsClassSubject1 ) Introduction to Toxicology

Chemical hazard I:
1.

Field toxicology andrisk analysis

2 ) Food Safety3 ) Ecotoxicology & Environmental Toxicology
4 ) Forensic Toxicology & Shelter Medicine
5 ) Risk Analysis **6 ) Risk communication**1 ) Guidance on environmental chemical analysis
2 ) Introduction & Lecture on LC-MS3)

2.

Chemical hazard II:
Chemical analysis

Lecture on Steroid hormones analysis from plasma: Extract
steroid hormones and analyze by LC-ESI/MS/MS

4 ) Lecture on heavy metal (including mercury) poisoning
5)

Introduction of KAMPAI project (field research project onlead pollution)6 ) Lecture on neonicotinoid analysis
7)

Lecture on environmental health and environmental
monitoring8 ) Lecture on data analysis of LC-MS/MS

16th Jul. 2021ClassSubject
1 ) Pharmacology

Chemical hazard III:3.

Comprehensive
Studies on Chemical2 ) Wildlife Toxicology / Ecotoxicology
3 ) Toxicologic Pathology
4 ) Immunotoxicology **Hazard Control

5 ) Experimental Molecular Toxicology ***Chemical hazard IV:
4.

Environmental***

3 ) Basic and practices of GIS ***Chemical hazard V:1 ) Basic and Multivariate Analysis: Basics and Practices ****

Informatics

2 ) Computational Toxicology Basic of Molecular Docking ****
1)

Mechanism,Understanding Plants and Soils - in relation to environmental
pollutions2 ) Impact Evaluation of Development Program

Assessment and6.

New diagnostic technologies opened up by remote sensing2 ) Environmental Remediation **Remediation

5.

1)

3)

Remediation ofEnvironmental

Environmental Radioactivity and health hazard: to get yourown robust gauge of the risk

4 ) Health SciencePollution5 ) How do we remediate abandoned mine sites?
6 ) Basic and practices of GIS ***1 ) Overview from animal side (host defense)2 ) Medical Entomology

AdvancedandComprehensive
7.

3)

Control of CSF/ASF (Classical swine fever/African swinefever)studies on Zoonosis

4 ) Filovirus infection

Control5 ) Control of Brucellosis in Uganda/ Tanzania
6 ) Tuberculosis

Notice: Select 8of 10 subjectsout7 ) Drug-resistance in bacteria
8 ) Influenza9 ) Toxoplasmosis
10 ) African trypanosomiasis

16th Jul. 2021ClassSubject
1 ) Principle of biobank and its application

Advanced Seminar on
8.

Conservation
medicine2)

Sampling and treatment of biological samples for long-term
storage3 ) Usage and application of NGS (next generation sequencer)**4 ) Usage and application of LC-MS/MS***5 ) Data management for biobank

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Medicine Education
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Program to foster theA free-designed class selected from any 16 subjects fromnext generation ofabove.

human resources toNotice: On completing this class, 2 credits will be given.

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and Japan:Conservation
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Program to foster thenext generation ofhuman resources to1 ) Japanese language and culture2 ) Sustainable Development in Japan and African countries
3)

Recent Topics in Veterinary and Conservation Medicine inJapan4 ) Training on Team Working5 ) One-Health and SDGs

bridge between Africa

6 ) Interdisciplinary Collaboration

and Japan: Japanese

7 ) International Agencies and Collaborative Activities

culture8 ) Thematic Research

For registration, visit https://africa.vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp/en/admission.html
If you have any inquiry, contact us via IVCMEP@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp