Veterinary Education in the Middle East: Perspective of an OIE Twining Project on Veterinary Education

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Veterinary Education in the Middle East
Perspective of an OIE Twining Project on
Veterinary Education

• Ehab Abu-Basha, DVM, MSc, Ph.D
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Jordan University of Science and Technology
• Irbid, Jordan

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Introduction-I

• What are the roles of the Veterinary Colleges?
• Build the necessary knowledge needed to ensure
  that vets are able to perform their roles!!!
• Animal Health
• Animal Welfare
• Public Health
• Build the student thinking of issues related to
  ethical behaviors.
• Promote self learning and building the
  confidence.
• Continuing education.

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Introduction-II

• In the Middle east region, there is about 60
  Veterinary colleges.
• All follow a five-year program.
• Students are directly accepted after finishing
  high school.
• Most of the schools lack appropriate distribution
  of the Basic vs Clinical courses in curriculum.
• Most colleges have no or minimal role in
  continuing education.

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Challenges that Face Vet. Education in the ME

• Lack or inadequate governmental support.
• Student enrollment.
• High cost of credit hours.
• Lack of accreditation body.
• Curriculum (theory more than practical).
• Admission criteria/ student interest.
• Board certified clinicians.

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Promoting Vet Education in the ME
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Community Awareness of Veterinary Education
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Promotion flyers
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Promoting Vet Education in the ME

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Promoting Vet Education in the ME

• JUST is currently an EAEVE associate member

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Promoting Vet Education in the ME
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Promoting Vet Education in the ME
JUST Intervention
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Admission to Vet College at JUST
3 Steps Scheme
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Promoting Vet Education in the ME

• High Quality Applied Research
• Help stakeholders
• Applied
• Examples Vaccine development
• External funding
• Developmental projects

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OIE Vet. Education Twining Program
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OIE Vet. Education Twining

• Objectives
• Jointly agreed by the OIE and the Directors/Deans
  of the participants and endorsed by the National
  Delegates to the OIE of the countries concerned
• To create more centers of excellence for
  veterinary education in geographical areas that
  are currently under-represented.
• To achieve a better balance in the global
  distribution of well-educated veterinarians.

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JUST-RVC Twining Project

• JUST objectives
• Achieving the full EAEVE accreditation
• Technical assistance, guidance and training.
• Establishment a joint MSc/PhD program
• The full proposal is in the final stage of
  preparation