Parallel poultry diseases are taught with emphasis on necropsy as the primary diagnostic tool for performing health inspections, meat inspection and advising poultry farmers. The pathology block consists of general and special pathology. General pathology deals with the common denominators of disease and the mechanisms by which disease develops. It teaches the fundamental morphological and functional changes associated with disease at the cellular level, circulatory and immunological disturbances, inflammation, processes of healing and neoplasia. Special pathology deals with the specific morphological and pathophysiological changes of organs and systems in disease.
Emphasis is placed on contagious and economically important diseases occurring in Denmark.
Exotic diseases, potentially threatening Danish veterinary standards, are reviewed. In practicals students are given a 3-week course in necropsy techniques and elementary diagnostic pathology. The pharmacy, pharmacology and toxicology block is taught from the sixth to eighth semester. Pharmacology examines how different groups of therapeutics are absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted, as well as providing an understanding of how cells and organs are physiologically affected. The theoretical basis for using therapeutics in the veterinary clinic is acquired.