We conduct hospital inspections to encourage the highest standards in veterinary facilities. They need to know about many different areas of medicine in order to care for your pet. Veterinarians attend four years of veterinary school after college and know how to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness in your pet. Some veterinarians extend their education even further and specialize in an area, such as cancer treatment or emergency and critical care. Veterinarians not only treat our pets, they maintain the health of our livestock and the animals in the zoo.
Veterinarians play a critical role in human health.
Veterinarians identify and manage diseases so they cannot be transmitted from animals to humans, develop vaccines and pharmaceuticals, and look at ways to prevent the spread of infection to humans through animal products such as meat or milk. Newark, NJ ordered the first inspection of dairies in the nation in 1882. Montclair, NJ was the first American city to undertake regular bacteriological examination of milk in 1900. One of the first female veterinarians in the country is from New Jersey, Dr. Jean Buist. To view and print them, you will need to download and install a PDF Viewer.