1 / 18

Evaluation and Accreditation of Veterinary Training in Europe

Learn about the evaluation and accreditation process for veterinary training in Europe, including the legal background, compulsory subjects, clinical sciences, animal production, food hygiene, and the future of veterinary education. Presented at the 4th Slovenian Veterinary Congress in Portorož on November 18-19, 2011.

casselman
Download Presentation

Evaluation and Accreditation of Veterinary Training in Europe

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION OF VETERINARY TRAINING IN EUROPE AKREDITACIJA IN EVALVACIJA VETERINARSKIH UČNIH INSTITUCIJ V EVROPI László Fodor 4th Slovanian Veterinary Congress Portorož, 18-19th November, 2011

  2. European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) • founded in 1988 • 98 member establishments (Europe, Turkey, Israel) • international cooperation • activities • representation of the veterinary school • running the evaluation system • exchange of information • mobility of students and teachers • development and distribution of teaching material • present proposals to the European Commission

  3. Legal background • 78/1026/EEC, 78/1027/EEC: veterinary education, minimum requirements • 78/1028/EEC: Advisory Committee on Veterinary Training (ACVT) • 1986-1989 pilot study • 1992 responsibility of the program was passed to EAEVE • 1993 ACVT report on basic veterinary education • 2000 ACVT disbanded, Joint Education Committee (JEC) was formed with FVE • 2005/36/EC

  4. Legal background • 2005/36/EC: Recognition of Professional Qualifications • veterinary surgeons • medical doctors, • nurses responsible for general care, • dentists, • pharmacists, • midwifes, • architects

  5. Veterinary curriculum • 2005/36/EC: Recognition of Professional Qualifications • at least 5 years (average 5.5y), university training • adequate knowledge on • basic sciences • healthy animals, husbandry, reprod., hygiene, nutrition • behaviour, protection • diseases of animals (individual, herd), zoonoses • preventive medicine • food hygiene, food safety • laws, regulations, administrative provisions • clinical and practical experience

  6. Legal background • 2005/36/EC: Recognition of Professional Qualifications • aim: • comparable education programs • graduates capable of working • with all species • in all fields of veterinary medicine • general training (omnipotence) • tracking

  7. Compulsory subjects • Basic subjects • Physics • Chemistry • Animal biology • Plant biology • Biomathematics

  8. Basic sciences • Anatomy, histology, embryology • Physiology • Biochemistry • Genetics • Pharmacology • Pharmacy • Toxicology • Microbiology • Immunology • Epidemiology • Professional ethics

  9. Clinical sciences • Obstetrics • Pathology, pathological anatomy • Parasitology • Clinical medicine, surgery, anaesthetics (hands-on) • Clinical lectures on various animal species • Preventive medicine • Radiology • Reproduction, reproductive disorders • Veterinary state medicine and public health • Veterinary legislation and forensic medicine • Therapeutics, propaedeutics

  10. Animal production • Animal production • Animal nutrition • Agronomy • Rural economics • Animal husbandry • Veterinary hygiene • Animal ethology and protection

  11. Food hygiene • Inspection and control of animal foodstuffs or foodstuffs of animal origin • Food hygiene and technology • Practical work (in places of slaughtering, processing of foodstuffs)

  12. Evaluation of veterinary training in Europe • 2005/36/EC • „voluntary based evaluation” • run in cooperation with the FVE • only regulated profession with international evaluation • peer review • reasons • increased trade of animals and foods • transboundary diseases • provide service with full freedom

  13. Evaluation of veterinary training in Europe • Based on • Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) • Self Evaluation report • visit (team of 7) • curriculum, organisation, infrastructure, teaching, case load, animal welfare • Decision: • European Committee on Veterinary Education (ECOVE) • published: www.eaeve.org

  14. Evaluation • Stage I • approval • the Faculty conforms with Directive 2005/36/EC, regarding the training of veterinary surgeons • Stage II • accreditation • the Faculty is following generally accepted and appropriate academic standards and providing learning opportunities of acceptable quality

  15. Status of veterinary schools in Europe

  16. Future • continuous change • changing demands of the society • new areas of activity • general training + tracking • increasing importance of postgraduate training • increasing importance of specialisation • internationalisation

  17. Aims • membership in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) • international harmonisation of the evaluation systems • thanks for the colleagues involved in the evaluation

  18. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! HVALA ZA VAŠO POZORNOST!

More Related