Course Image.jpegThe Management of Veterinary Drugs course equips learners with essential knowledge and practical skills for the safe, effective, and responsible use of veterinary medicines in livestock and companion animal systems. The course covers key areas including drug classification, prescription principles, dosage calculation, storage, handling, withdrawal periods, pharmacovigilance, antimicrobial resistance, and regulatory frameworks applicable in Rwanda. It aims to promote rational drug use to improve animal health and welfare while ensuring food safety, public health, and environmental protection.
Upon completion, learners gain competencies to manage veterinary drugs in compliance with legal and ethical standards and to advise farmers on proper drug use. The course positively impacts students by enhancing professional readiness and employability, supports farmers through improved animal productivity and reduced losses, protects consumers by ensuring safe animal products, and contributes to environmental sustainability by minimizing drug misuse and contamination.
- Teacher: Victor HUNDO RUMURI
This module aims to equip learners with a practical understanding of animal diseases diagnosis equipment management during and after their use. Learners will acquire skills and knowledge required to prepare preliminary activities for a veterinary clinical assistant, identify tools, material and equipment for animal diseases diagnosis, prepare tools, material and equipment, restrain and handle the animal, perform animal general and systemic examination, perform necropsy, collect and transport samples for analysis and finally analyze samples and interpret results
- Teacher: Victor HUNDO RUMURI
This module covers the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to APPLY VETERINARY
BIOCHEMISTRY upon completion of this module, the trainee will be able to: Describe
AminoAcid metabolism, Describe Carbohydrate metabolism, Describe Energy metabolism,
Describe lipid metabolism and Describe Metabolic regulation.
- Teacher: Bonfils BIGIRIMNA
Welcome to the Animal Breeding and Genetics Module💡
In this module, you’ll explore how genetics shapes animal performance, health, and productivity.
You’ll learn to use the right tools and materials for breeding work, understand how to study genome structures, and discover how genetic information is used to improve animal health and production.
By the end, you’ll be ready to make smart decisions about Genetic Improvement Strategies for different livestock species.
- Teacher: Marie Joyeuse Nyiraneza
Purpose statement
This module describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare preliminary activities for
veterinary clinical assistant after learning this module he/she will be able to identify and select
materials, tools and equipments for parasitic diseases diagnosis, identify parasites, describe
parasitic diseases after he/she can perform treatment and prevention of parasitic diseases.
- Teacher: Dr.Joshua KATUSIME
Module Title: Infectious diseases control
Module code: ANHID601
Sector: Agriculture and food processing
Sub-sector: Animal health.
REQF Level: 6, Year II
Semester: I
Total credits: 12
Academic year: 2025-2026
Purpose statement
This module describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare preliminary activities for a Veterinary Technician Assistant to, identify and select material, tools and equipment, prepare and manipulate material tools and equipment, identify pathogenic microorganisms, describe infectious diseases, perform treatment and prevention of infectious diseases
Infectious diseases constitute a serious threat of animal health and production in many countries especially in developing countries; where veterinary drugs, required infrastructures and skilled workers are not sufficient. Frequent, morbidity and mortality rates are very high, resulting in economic losses thus reducing the production.
As the majority of the population of Rwanda is depending on agriculture, the government, in its priorities, decided to promote agriculture sector and the human resource strengthening is one of important strategies.
The primary objective of this module is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to veterinary technician(s); this will help her (them) in animal health management for farm animals. This module treats only common infectious diseases caused by different agents including bacteria, viruses and microscopic fungi.