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

European Association of Establishments for Veterinary

Education (EAEVE)

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

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

Legal background

•2005/36/EC: Recognition of Professional Qualifications

•veterinary surgeons

•medical doctors,

•nurses responsible for general care,

•dentists,

•pharmacists,

•midwifes,

•architects

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

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

Compulsory subjects

Basic subjects

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Animal biology

• Plant biology

• Biomathematics

Basic sciences

• Anatomy, histology, embryology

• Physiology

• Biochemistry

•Genetics

• Pharmacology

• Pharmacy

• Toxicology

•Microbiology

• Immunology

• Epidemiology

• Professional ethics

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

Animal production

• Animal production

• Animal nutrition

• Agronomy

• Rural economics

• Animal husbandry

• Veterinary hygiene

• Animal ethology and protection

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)

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

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

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

Status of veterinary schools in Europe

Schools Number of schools

EAEVE member schools 98

Accredited 3

Approved 50

Conditionally approved 3

Not approved 12

Not visited, pending 30

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

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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

HVALA ZA VAŠO POZORNOST!