Clinical services at Melbourne Veterinary School

From specialist veterinary care to state-of-the-art laboratory and diagnostic facilities, explore the services we provide to our community, industry and partners.

Clinical services

  • University of Melbourne Equine Centre at Werribee

    State-of-the-art care to horses of all shapes and sizes through lameness, imaging, sports medicine and elective surgery services. Cases are referred to the Centre from all over Victoria and interstate to be examined and treated by veterinary specialists.

  • Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital

    The Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital (GVEH) offers complete equine veterinary care to the public, ambulatory services and a class of specialist equine referral services in the fields of lameness, medicine, surgery and reproduction.

  • Veterinary care at Werribee

    Our Werribee campus hosts a veterinary animal hospital, providing 24-hour specialist and emergency care for patients, along with clinical rotations for our Doctor of Veterinary Medicine students.

Diagnostic services

  • Clinical pathology services

    The Clinical Pathology Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Werribee campus uniquely offers its general and specialist diagnostic services to commercial and private partners backed by a small team of dedicated, passionate and highly skilled staff.

  • Histology services

    The Histopathology Laboratory uses state-of-the-art facilities to produce high-quality microscopic sections of paraffin embedded material.

  • Diagnostic services

    The Anatomic Pathology Group provides a full post-mortem service for all animal species to veterinary clinics throughout Victoria in our custom-designed and built necropsy facility.

Animal donation program

If you're facing the challenging experience of losing a beloved animal, we offer a body donation program to help the next generation of vets and the animals they look after.

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