Welcome to the Department of Pathology and Parasitology under the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU). From the very beginning of its establishment, this Department is playing a significant role at CVASU through its major contribution in veterinary education and training, clinical services alongside indulging in basic and applied research. We are proud of our highly motivated and young dedicated academic and support staffs and continuously thriving for excellence as manifested by increasing international research collaborations with other contemporary institutes around the globe. We are committed to provide best academic atmosphere with state-of-the-art facilities for teaching, research, diagnostics and other extension services through this Department to flourish the overall mission and vision of CVASU to produce competent vets to meet the diversified demands of 21^st century.

With the changing world where veterinarians are expected to have new skills and experiences to combat spread of emerging and reemerging infectious and transboundary diseases rather than conducting merely post-mortem and diagnostic services, we are fully supportive of the One Health movement and continuously monitoring our syllabi and curricula to help produce competent vets suitable for the new century challenges. All of our faculties are trained in developed countries and have sufficient skills and knowledge to face the threats of infectious and non-infectious diseases in a developing country setting like Bangladesh.

As of 2016, the Department has a total of 12 academic staffs and more than 15 research associates, assistants, Master and doctoral students. The highly talented postgraduate researchers enrolled in our Department continue to enjoy impressive national and international funding, and continuous support from our skilled laboratory resource personnels. Major areas of research interests of DPP faculty and researchers include infectious diseases, parasitic diseases, vector-borne diseases, cancer biology, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and immunology. The Department is closely involved with the newly established One Health Institute of CVASU and continuously supporting the existing PRTC (Poultry Research and Training Centre). We offer the wide spectrum of pathology and parasitology expertise encompassing the clinical diagnostics specialties in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine.

Department activities include provision of technical and logistic support for Clinical Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Molecular Pathology and guiding major clinical decisions when caring for patients to reach a confirmatory diagnosis. We like to emphasize the unique educational and training opportunities available at DPP and closely work with CVASU administration to update the syllabi and curricula. Our faculty provides the main curriculum of the undergraduate and graduate veterinary class in the form of the continuously updated pathobiology, pathophysiology and parasitology courses. We have integrated novel teaching methodologies like PBL (Problem based learning) in our classes and collaborating with other CVASU Departments to develop new case studies for future PBL classes.

We encourage you to visit the website of DPP for further specific information about our existing research and diagnostic facilities. If you have further queries or comment please let us know through sending mail at <zamandrmd@yahoo.co.uk >. We certainly appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

 Prof Md. Masuduzzaman, PhD

Head, Department of Pathology and Parasitology

Officers

Staffs

Course Curriculum of MS in pathology

Total Credit = 40

Compulsory = 32 credits

Optional = 08 credits

1 Credit = 12 Lectures

Course Curriculum of MS in Parasitology

Total Credit = 40

Compulsory = 32 credits

Optional = 08 credits

1 Credit = 12 Lectures

This department offers six Pathology courses at undergraduate level (DVM-Doctor of Veterinary Medicine). The courses under the Pathology section are General Pathology-1 (Theory + Practical, credit 2+1), General Pathology-II and Nutritional Pathology (Theory + Practical, credit 1+1), Systemic Pathology (Theory + Practical, credit 2+1), Pathology of Infectious Diseases (Theory, credit 2), Avian Pathology (Theory + Practical, credit 1+1), Clinical Pathology and Necropsy (Practical, credit 1).

We also offer four Parasitology courses at undergraduate level namely Platyhelminthes and Malacology (Theory + Practical, credit 2+1), Veterinary Nematology (Theory + Practical, credit 2+1), Veterinary Entomology (Theory + Practical, credit 1+1), Protozoolgy (Theory + Practical, credit 1+1).

The Department also offers one and half years long MS degree in both Pathology and Parasitology each of which comprises two taught semesters with one thesis semester.

Along with other teaching and research activities, members of the Department are also involved with diversified activities such as:

       1)Postmortem of animals/ pets/ birds

       2)Examination of specimen (blood, feces, tissue, urine) for providing diagnostic services

       3)Publication of research reports/ scientific articles in reputed journals

       4)Organizing the ‘Annual Department Day’

       5)Collaborative activities with national and international institutes

       6)Attract and manage research grants from national and international organizations

       7)Organize weekly pathology journal club/ lab meeting

       8)Provide administrative support to CVASU through serving as Directors/ members of the syndicate/ academic council/ faculty committee