Following the World War II soon post-war reconstruction programs progressing in full swing there were acute shortage of trained veterinarians and as such large-scale recruitments from Madras and Bengal were ensue done. Even then the gap between demand and supply could not be bridged. After reorganization of states, Vidarbha became part of bilingual Bombay state and once again acute shortage of veterinarian were experienced. This coupled with aspirations for regional development, gave an impetus for establishment of Veterinary College at Nagpur. Thus in 1956-57, the Government of Bombay took the decision to establish a Veterinary College at Nagpur.

Department of Medicine is one of the three clinical department viz. Medicine, Surgery and Animal reproduction. The courses in Medicine are offered for III year onwards. The Department was established with following aims:

Laboratory Facilities in the Department:• The department is having UG, PG and Ph.D laboratory facility. The department is having rumenology laboratory which is equipped with Laboratory: - Rusi-E Tech-Rumen Simulator. The need of the Veterinary College Hospital in the central location of the city was long felt. To produce today’s Vet. Practitioners competent for catering need of the society, College Hospital was established in the year 1986 with the central assistance funding from ICAR. Thus, a facility for hospital training is made available to the undergraduate and post-graduate students of Medicine and Surgery disciplines. Hospital is making all round progress and to extend modern diagnostic facilities to public in general and to train field practitioners in particular, an “Advanced Diagnostic Unit” and “Clinical Pathology Laboratory” was established during the year 1997.