Anatomic Pathology Residency and Graduate Program

The Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science offers veterinarians a full-time graduate degree program that combines residency training in anatomic pathology and a non-thesis Masters in Pathobiology with an area of concentration in veterinary anatomic pathology.

The Department houses the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (CVMDL) which is the veterinary diagnostic laboratory for the State of Connecticut and southern New England region.

  • CVMDL is the only veterinary diagnostic laboratory in New England accredited by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) and is a member laboratory for the USDA National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) and FDA's Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN).
  • The CVMDL is equipped with a fully functioning mammalian and non-mammalian necropsy laboratory, histology laboratory including digital scanner, microbiology and molecular diagnostic laboratories, and serology laboratory.
  • The CVMDL receives case submissions from regional farms, veterinary practitioners, institutional veterinarians, aquariums, zoological collections and marine laboratories nationwide, and its caseload routinely encompasses a broad range of species accessions that not only include domestic animal species but also non-domestic, exotic, wildlife and aquatic species.

Veterinarians are enrolled in the Graduate School and pursue a three-year non-thesis Masters plan of study that involves coursework in descriptive comparative pathology and practicums in necropsy and mail-in pathology through the Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory under the supervision of ACVP certified veterinary pathologists of the Department’s faculty.

  • Students tracking through the residency/graduate plan of study are eligible to sit the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) Board examination.
  • Residents will receive a comprehensive, in-depth educational experience in all aspects of veterinary and comparative anatomic pathology.
  • This will include the necessary training experience and access to training materials that are required to sit for the Phase I and Phase II certifying examinations of the ACVP.

The Department provides salary to select students for the three years of the combined plan of study of the residency/Masters through Departmental teaching assistantships and requires that the recipients serve as teaching assistants for courses offered by the Department.

Students who successfully complete the coursework and practicums of the three year residency/Masters program assemble a Masters committee from the faculty pathologists and submit a Plan of Study to the Graduate School by the end of their second year.

  • By the completion of their third year, students must pass a final comprehensive examination for the non-thesis Masters degree.
  • Students tracking through the residency/graduate plan of study are eligible to sit the ACVP Board examination following completion of their third year (i.e., 36 months of residency training).

The Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science has active research in areas that include, but are not limited to, immunotoxicology and infectious diseases of aquatic animals, vaccine development and immunology, poultry diseases, bacterial pathogenesis, and viral pathogenesis. In addition, opportunities exist for research to be conducted with collaborating institutions.

Applications

  • Applicants apply for admission to the Graduate School at the University of Connecticut, Storrs https://grad.uconn.edu/admissions/apply-to-uconn/.
  • English (or English-translated and notarized) veterinary diploma from an AVMA-accredited or AVMA-listed international veterinary school is required.
  • Veterinarians who are offered admission into the residency/MS program (concentration: veterinary anatomic pathology) must meet the enrollment criteria of the Graduate School and the Department’s Graduate Admissions Committee, then be selected by the Admissions Committee for the Residency Program.

For information, contact:

Neha Mishra, BVSc, MVSc, MS, PhD, DipACVP

Associate Professor

Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science

Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

61 North Eagleville Road, Storrs,CT 06269-3089

University of Connecticut

Phone: (860) 486-3737

Fax: (860) 486-2794

Email: neha.mishra@uconn.edu

 

Emily Reinhardt, BVM&S, MS, DipACVP

Assistant Clinical Professor of Veterinary Pathology

Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science

Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

University of Connecticut

61 North Eagleville Road

Storrs, CT 06269-3089

Phone: (860) 486-1163

Fax: (860) 486-2794

Email: emily.reinhardt@uconn.edu