Graduate work in veterinary clinical medicine may be pursued in several areas, including:

• anesthesiology
• equine medicine and surgery
• equine theriogeneology
• farm animal reproduction (theriogenology)
• medicine
• surgery
• imaging/radiation therapy
• small animal medicine (emergency and critical care, internal medicine)
• small animal surgery
• specialty medicine (cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, oncology, ophthalmology)
• zoological medicine

After completing graduate work, the student will be able to conduct research both independently and as a team member. Adequate training in planning research projects and writing research proposals will give the student the ability to function with teams of scientists from various areas of the biomedical field. Experience in clinical teaching and literature study will form the basis for the student's development of teaching programs within his or her discipline.