Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal

The Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine was started in the year 1985 to teach Veterinary Clinical Medicine to the Under-Graduate students of BVSc degree programme Later, the Department was upgraded to Post-Graduate Department, and offers M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. in Veterinary Clinical Medicine from the year 2006 and 2008, respectively.

The Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine was established during 1985 by offering undergraduate courses. The Postgraduate programme was started in the Department during the year 1993. In addition to the education, this department undertaking various research projects and extension activities to uplift the farming communities.

Both Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine have been merged and renamed as Department of Veterinary Medicine from 01.01.2026.

Currently, the Department offers a course on "Veterinary Medicine" for the students undergoing B.V.Sc. & A.H. degree programme, as per Veterinary Council of India under MSVE Regulations (2016). The Department, also, offers M.V.Sc., and Ph.D., degree programme in Veterinary Medicine.

• Colour Doppler Ultrasonography for Large and Small animals
• Electrocardiography for Large and Small Animals
• Endoscopy for Ruminants, dogs and Horses
• Doppler Blood Pressure
• Defibrillator
• 12- lead ECG
• Oxygen generator for Critically ill pet animals, livestock and poultry.
• Rumen laboratory
• Infusion pump for ruminants-Rumen drenching system
• Downer cow sling and aqua cow
• Facilities to offer undergraduate and postgraduate practicals
• Postgraduate laboratory is equipped with gradient thermal cycler, Gel documentation system, Ultra low deep freezer (-86°C), deep freezer (-20°C), vertical Laminar flow, cooling centrifuge, dark field microscope, FAT microscope, inverted microscope and bacteriological incubator for strengthening research facilities
• A separate "Leptospirosis laboratory" is available for screening of human and animal sera samples by Dark Field Microscopy (DFM) on cost basis

• During the phase of epidemics and sporadic - epidemiological investigations are being carried out to indentify the cause and creation of disease database
• Periodic screening of farm animals for infectious and contagious diseases
• Disease investigation service on government farms, field outbreaks, captive and wild animals
• Diagnostic services for major diseases of livestock, poultry, companion, captive and wild animals

• Being part of Animal health camps organized by associated departments and NSS.
• On and off campus training programme for progressive farmers and field Veterinarians to update the knowledge on prevention and treatment of diseases
• Awareness campaigns for public on rumen disorders, production diseases, rabies, leptospirosis, tuberculosis, brucellosis and zoonotic parasitic infestations through distribution of pamphlets and publication in newspapers
• Developed and advocated a new technique on “Treatment of mastitis without using antibiotics’ to Veterinary Assistant Surgeons of Government of Tamil Nadu for the benefit of dairy farmers and to avoid indiscriminate use of antibiotics
• Awareness on chronic kidney diseases, ruminal lactic acidosis, foreign body syndrome, immunization and deworming for pet animals has been created among owners visited to VCC

• Downer cow syndrome
• Traumatic reticuloperitonitis (TRP)
• Pneumonia in small ruminants and large ruminants
• Cardiac, renal and gastro intestinal diseases of small animals
• Molecular epidemiology of bovine diseases including Mycobacterial infections, MCF, BVD, IBRT, etc.
• Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases of poultry and canines
• Assessment of production losses caused by subclinical diseases in farm animals

Title	Funding Agency
Self-financing scheme on “Diagnostic imaging and Electrocardiography Unit	TANUVAS
Revolving Fund scheme on “Designing of Infusion Pump for oral rehydration solution in ruminants	TANUVAS
Clinical evaluation of Fluralaner (Nulura) in canine generalized demodecosis	SAVA VET
In-ovo-immunization and post-hatch- immunization in control of Marek`s disease	TANUVAS
Status of dog Leptospira interogans of human significance in Namakkal	TNSCST
Molecular epidemiology of emerging and exotic diseases	TANUVAS
Disease surveillance and creation of database for forecasting and control of animal diseases	TANUVAS

• Ultrasonographic evaluation of canine hepatic diseases
• Evaluation of bovine acute respiratory disease syndrome in cattle
• Endoscopic evaluation of respiratory tract diseases in buffaloes
• Standardization of effect of potassium chloride in recumbent cows
• Standardization of systolic indice in cardiomyopathy in dogs
• Echocardiographic evaluation of pericarditis in cattle
• Evaluation done on Diagnostic and therapeutic management of encephalitis, myelitis and neuropathies of dogs
• Evaluation done on Resistant Mastitis and development of artificial intelligence based diagnostic support tools for mastitis in dairy cows
• Developed inactivated leptospiral vaccine for cattle
• Developed coupled complex vaccine for infectious bursal disease in poultry
• Developed cryopreservation of leptospires technique for performing Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT)
• Recorded the status of IBRT in bovines in Tamil Nadu
• Developed a "Forecasting models for PPR, bluetongue, sheep pox and enterotoxaemia in small ruminants"
• Recorded K10 strain of MAP in milch animals in southern districts of Tamil Nadu
• Developed E. tenella sporozoite vaccine in broiler chickens
• Developed a forecasting model for enteric diseases in layer chicken
• Developed indirect ELISA for the diagnosis of canine leptospirosis
• Recorded the canine parvo viral infection 2a and 2b serotypes in dogs in Namakkal district by molecular epidemiology
• Recorded blue tongue serotype-23 in sheep population at Valasiramani, Trichy district
• Recorded lineage 4 PPR virus infection in goats at Mohanur
• Recorded FMD "O" serotype outbreak in dairy animals at Gopichettipalayam, Erode
• Mysterious death of cattle and buffaloes at Vennandhur, Namakkal district and pony horse at Trichirapalli were confirmed as rabies by FAT
• Seroprevalence of bovine viral diarrhoea in North-western zone of Tamil Nadu was identified as 13.2 % by indirect ELISA in cattle and BVD-1 virus was identified and sequenced
• Recorded overall prevalence of canine haemoparasitic infections in dogs of Namakkal region as 26 % by molecular epidemiology
• Recorded prevalence of 25.9 %, 13.5 % and 62.5 % of Newcastle disease, Infectious bronchitis, and fowl pox respectively in backyard poultry by molecular epidemiology
• Recorded Brucella melitensis infection in sheep flock at Dindigul district by RBPT and PCR
• Recorded Brucella melitensis infection in sheep flock at Pavithram, Namakkal district by Molecular epidemiology
• Developed epidemiological map for gastrointestinal parasitism in small ruminants of Namakkal, Trichy and Pudukottai districts of Tamil Nadu
• Recorded MAP infection in small ruminants in organized and unorganized farms
• Molecular epidemiology of Marek`s disease in poultry, Haemoprotozoan diseases in cattle and Mycoplasmosis in small ruminants

Name of the Faculty	Designation	E-mail	Mobile#
PALANIVEL,K.M	PROFESSOR AND HEAD	drkmpalanivel@gmail.com	9444180143
GEETHA,M	PROFESSOR	drmgeetha2@gmail.com	9442288400
SENTHIL KUMAR,G	PROFESSOR	gskmvsc@gmail.com	9444327002
MOHANAMBAL,K	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	mohanambalbvsc@gmail.com	9443252942
SASIKALA,K	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	sasikalakaliapan@gmail.com	8248939089

The Head of the Department,
Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine,
Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal - 637 002.
Phone: +91-4286-266491/92/93
E-mail: vcm-vcri-nkl@tanuvas.org.in