EVALUATION AND ACCREDITATION OF VETERINARY TRAINING IN EUROPE

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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

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• 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

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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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
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• 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

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• 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

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! HVALA ZA VAŠO
POZORNOST!