Veterinary Medicines and Toxicology Department:

The primary goal of teaching pharmacology in the field of veterinary medicine is to explain and clarify the chemical role of drugs in treating infectious and epidemic diseases that affect the animal’s body and to teach the student how to make the decision to give one drug over another without causing disruption to the various body functions. This is in addition to explaining and clarifying the side effects of each drug, its optimal dose, and contraindications to save the animal’s life. The importance of pharmacology in the veterinary field is highlighted not only in treating animals, but also in conducting vital vaccinations against dangerous diseases, whether contagious, epidemic, or common that are transmitted to humans accompanying animals. It is also important to explain healthy and dangerous medicines that are used in fattening animals, poultry, and fish without causing functional impairment. A vital effect that affects human health. The department also aims to prepare a veterinarian capable of diagnosing and treating cases of poisoning in animals and birds, capable of dealing with various methods for detecting and quantitatively and qualitatively assessing all types of toxins and environmental pollutants, and being able to examine criminally suspected cases and write forensic medical reports to legal authorities.
Accordingly, the student must be familiar with the veterinary laws, procedures, and regulations related to regulating the profession and veterinary quarries. In addition, the study of forensic medicine and toxicology is a highly specialized study, as it is a department that serves many fields in the field of veterinary medicine, the field of human medicine, and the field of pharmacy. Among its decisions is identifying different types and tools to differentiate between different animal remains, as well as human remains such as hair, bones, and different body fluids, identifying and examining different types of wounds, defining the causes of their occurrence and the machines used to cause them, as well as different types of wounds, their degrees, and methods of treating them, as well as identifying firearms, their types, methods of operation, and methods. Diagnosing gunshot wounds and the distances from which these weapons were fired.