The pedagogical project of the Veterinary Medicine Course of the FMVZ-USP details the planning of teaching and learning procedures necessary for the professional qualification, providing a wide range of knowledge that makes the professional capable of working in the four dimensions of veterinary medicine scope, including pets, production, wild animals, public health, as well as its implications on animal food and environmental sanity.

“The Course of Veterinary Medicine provides to its alumni a professional profile with a generalist, humanistic, critical and reflexive background, able to understand and translate the needs of individuals, social groups and communities, related to the activities inherent to the professional practices, within their specific fields of action in animal health and veterinary clinics; environmental sanitation and preventive veterinary medicine, public health and technology inspection of animal products; animal science, animal production and reproduction, ecology and environment protection. In addition, has knowledge of social, cultural and political facts of economy, also agricultural and agroindustrial administration. Capacity for logical reasoning, observation, interpretation and analysis of data and information, as well as the essential knowledge of Veterinary Medicine, for identification and resolution of problems”.

Besides of meeting official recommendations for academic contents, FMVZ-USP Veterinary Medicine Course aims to:
(i) To stimulate the student to explore, within his own School, areas of knowledge that allow him to compose the knowledge he/she needs and wants to training;
(ii) To stimulate the student to build the knowledge always guided by sources besides those available in the School;
(iii) To integrate the knowledge areas to minimize the compartmentalization of learning, promoting transversality between them;
(iv) To preserve, at the same time, the generalist profile of the course.

The traditional teaching/learning programme of Veterinary Medicine courses seeks to contemplate the complete content of this area of ​​knowledge, which is in constant evolution, becoming the teaching/learning process progressively ineffective. In fact, the considerable economic and technological development experienced in recent years by the global economies, among them Brazil, has led to a proportional increase in the creation of knowledge and, consequently, in the new areas of professional activity and demands, not only in the Veterinary Medicine, but in many other sectors. These new demands have been stimulating the development of new fields of work, which has required professionals with a higher level of specialization within already consolidated areas of knowledge.
Moreover, the effectiveness of traditional teaching/learning programme has been increasingly questioned not only as a result of the evolution of knowledge in Veterinary Medicine, but also by the labor market pressure that demands increasingly specialized professionals, but at the same time with versatility between different areas of knowledge, many of them outside ​​Veterinary Medicine field.
Thereny, FMVZ-USP has been updating its academic structure in order to meet these new demands with excellence, offering a course that is not only forged with compulsory subjects, but that also allows flexibility for the combination of different knowledges according to the needs of the student.
From these changes, FMVZ-USP allows the student more time to interact with necessary and complementary fields of action and, at the same time, make possible the more fluid use of the wide range of knowledge available at USP or in other sectors academics or otherwise, in order to build the learning in a more dynamic way, with the effective participation of the student in the achievement of his/her own choices. In this new teaching/learning programme, the student has free times during the week and, therefore, more possibilities for non-compulsory activities during the course.
With this approach, the understanding is that the student has great power of choice for his/her graduation in Veterinary Medicine and that the compartmentalization of knowledge is minimized through interdepartmental disciplines that converge competences of several areas, making it possible to meet the goals aforementioned. FMVZ-USP emphasizes that does not intend to bring to its domains all areas of knowledge necessary for professional training, leaving part of this responsibility to the student him/herself. In general terms, about 15% of the course hours are used for activities chosen by the student.