VETMI at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 18 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate VETMI coursework.

• VETMI 7440Parasites of Domestic Animalsopens 7 courses (7 directly)
• VETMI 7416Introductory Pharmacologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• VETMI 7420Parasite Identification Laboratoryopens 1 course (1 directly)
• VETMI 7436Capstone Projectopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate VETMI work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 18 VETMI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 51 more VETMI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in VETMI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at VETMI 7050

  1. BIOMS 3150Basic Immunology
  2. VETMI 7050Advanced Immunology

• 2 courses deep, ending at VETMI 7407

  1. VETMI 7440Parasites of Domestic Animals
  2. VETMI 7407Internal Parasites of Cats

• 2 courses deep, ending at VETMI 7429

  1. VETMI 7416Introductory Pharmacology
  2. VETMI 7429Antiparasitic Drugs

• 2 courses deep, ending at VETMI 7443

  1. VETMI 7420Parasite Identification Laboratory
  2. VETMI 7443Advanced Parasite Identification Laboratory

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on VETMI sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Araceli Lucio-Forster
• Deborah Fowell
• Ellen Carlin
• Jennifer Ketzis

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under VETMI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

VETMI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.