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Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários - Portugal
Portuguese Veterinary Practitioners Order José
Resende - Chairman Veterinary Statutory
Bodies, Private Veterinarians and
Paraprofessionals in the Veterinary
Services O.I.E. Regional Seminar 17th June -
Sofia, Bulgaria
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Portuguese History of Veterinary Medicine

• 1832 The first Veterinary Medicine course was
  created in the Portuguese Army
• 1854/1862 The Municipal Veterinarian career was
  introduced (first in Lisbon and later in all
  districts Intendentes de Pecuária)
• 1892 Creation of the first Official Veterinary
  Services
• 1901 Creation of the Estação Zootécnica
  Nacional (National Zootecnic Station)
• 1902 The Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências
  Veterinárias (Portuguese Veterinary Sciences
  Society) was founded
• 1913 Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária e
  Bacteriologia
• 1944 The Sindicato Nacional dos Médicos
  Veterinários (National Veterinary Practitioners
  Syndicate) was founded
• 1991 4th October Creation of the Ordem dos
  Médicos Veterinários and Veterinary
  Practitioners Day

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Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários
The Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários (OMV), created
on the 4th October 1991, is the Institution which
represents the licensed Veterinary Practitioners
in Portugal. The Order is a Public Association
independent from the Government, being free and
autonomous in its attributions. Only veterinary
practitoners registered in OMV are able to
legally practise veterinary medicine, on a
professional basis, in Portugal.
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Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários

• Main purposes of OMV
• Safeguard of deontological and ethical
  principles inherent to veterinary activities
• Contribution to the development and improvement
  in scientific, technical and professional domains
• Protection of the veterinary professional
  exercise
• Support of professional interests

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OMV Institutional Relationships

• The Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários is an active
  member of the following Institutions
• National Institutions
• CNOP (National Council of Professional Orders)
• International Institutions
• WVA (World Veterinary Association)
• FVE (Federation of Veterinarians of Europe)
• AVEA (Association Vétérinaire Euro-Arabe)
• FVL (Federation of the Portuguese Speaking
  Veterinarians)
• Macaronésia Veterinary Practitioners Association

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The Structure of O.M.V.

• The Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários is
  composed by both National and Regional Bodies.
• National Bodies
• General Assembly
• Board of Directors
• Professional and Deontological Council
• Council of Auditors
• Regional Bodies
• North Regional Delegation (Braga)
• Centre Regional Delegation (Coimbra)
• South Regional Delegation (Lisbon)
• Regional Delegation of Azores (Ponta Delgada)
• Regional Delegation of Madeira (Madeira)

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Registered Members
OMV has nowadays more than 4300 registered
members, of which 3663 are active (1900 female
members and 1763 male members).
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Registered Members
The Portuguese Veterinary Class can be classified
as young, since 76 of its members are less than
50 years old, and 59 are less than 40 years old.
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Activity of OMV Members
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Veterinary Learning in Portugal

• In the present time, there are six
  portuguese universities offering Veterinary
  Medicine courses, located in different regions.
• Public Institutions
• Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária de Lisboa
  (Lisbon)
• Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro (Vila
  Real)
• Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
  (Oporto)
• Universidade de Évora (Évora)
• Universidade dos Açores (Azores)
• Private Institutions
• Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama (Coimbra)
• Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e
  Tecnologias (Lisbon)

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Veterinarians in Portugal

• Considering Portugal to have 10M inhabitants,
  there is presently a ratio of 1 veterinarian for
  2730 citizens.
• Annually there are 250 new veterinary graduates
  registering in OMV, but in the next year this
  number will rise to 330 new veterinarians per
  year.
• This means that in the next 10 years, the number
  of veterinarians in Portugal will double.

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Animal Contingent Animal Health

• The Portuguese Animal Population is as shown on
• the side table

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Veterinarians and Animal Health

• Portuguese Veterinarians play an essential
  role in maintaining Animal and Public Health and
  establishing eradication and vigilance programs
  for animal infectious diseases.
• In the past years, the portuguese
  veterinary practioners have been engaged in
  several control programs
• BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
• Avian Influenza
• Rabbies
• Blue Tongue
• ASF (African Swine Fever)
• AHS (African Horse Sickness)
• CBPP (Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia)
• Foot-and-Mouth Disease
• Newcastle Disease

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OMV Veterinary policies

• OMV is often invited to meet with the
  Government, Veterinary Services and other
  stakeholders, concerning diverse legislative
  matters that affect Veterinary practitioners
• OMV acts as an adviser, uttering opinions
  and suggestions and producing drafts which help
  to improve legal documents.
• Some of the themes recently debated were
• Veterinary drugs and medicate feed prescriptions
• Veterinary Medicines and Products
• Veterinary Medical Centres
• Complaints Book

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Veterinary Prescriptions

• Giving the need to control the prescription and
  use of drugs on farm animals, the Government
  published laws approving veterinary medicines and
  veterinary medicated feed normalized
  prescriptions (D.L.175/2005, Portaria 1159/2005
  and D.L. 151/2005).
• Those diplomas establish the principle that all
  veterinary drugs used in farm animals must be
  prescribed by a veterinarian, using standard
  formularies.
• OMV is the entity responsible for supplying the
  official prescriptions and the professional
  vignette, which identifies the veterinarian/prescr
  iptioner.

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Veterinary Medicines and Products

• Following the publication of the national laws
  approving the veterinary medicines and veterinary
  medicated feed prescriptions (D.L.175/2005,
  Portaria 1159/2005 and D.L. 151/2005), the
  Government felt the need to update the laws
  regarding Veterinary Drugs and Products. A new
  document was prepared to replace the
  D.L.184/1997, meeting the requirements of UE
  Directives 2001/82/CE and 2004/28/CE.
• The new legislation regarding Veterinary Drugs
  and Products, was already approved by the
  Government and will be published in the next few
  days. This diploma will establish the veterinary
  practitioner as the only person allowed to
  prescribe veterinary drugs and will authorize
  Veterinary Medical Centers to sell Veterinary
  Medicines and Products (MUV and PUV). It will
  also revoke some norms related with the commerce
  of MUV and PUV and will permit the purchase of
  these products by associations and farmers.

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Veterinary Clinical Centres

• OMV also regulates the Private Practioners
  activity, by implementing Regulations on the
  establishment and practise in Veterinary Clinical
  Centres (CAMV)
• All CAMV have to be registered in OMV. After an
  OMV inspection, the centres are classified in
  Consulting-rooms, Clinics or Hospitals.
• OMV also established that each CAMV must have a
  Clinic Director, whos responsible for all the
  practitioners working in the CAMV, and is also
  accountable for the observance of all the
  deontological and ethical rules.
• These internal regulations will be translated
  into National Law, and the Official Veterinary
  Services (DGV) will be responsible for licensing
  the Clinical Centres, in cooperation with OMV.

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Veterinary Clinical Centres

• There are 907 Veterinary Clinical Centres
  registered in OMV

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Complaints Book

• On January 6th 2008, the DL 371/2007 was brought
  to force, which widened the obligatoriness of
  determined establishments to provide Complaints
  Book. The Veterinary Medical Centres were also be
  comprised by this legislation.
• All the complaints must be sent to the Ordem dos
  Médicos Veterinários, which is the Institution
  responsible for the processes surveillance and
  instruction.
• OMV is the only Professional Order in Portugal
  which was given this attribution.

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Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários Portuguese
Veterinary Practitioners Order
Available at www.omv.pt
Contacts omv_at_omv.pt
Veterinary Statutory Bodies,
Private Veterinarians and
Paraprofessionals in the Veterinary
Services O.I.E. Regional Seminar
17th June - Sofia, Bulgaria
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Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários Portuguese
Veterinary Practitioners Order
Available at www.omv.pt
Contacts omv_at_omv.pt
Veterinary Statutory Bodies,
Private Veterinarians and
Paraprofessionals in the Veterinary
Services O.I.E. Regional Seminar
17th June - Sofia, Bulgaria