Workshop on BVC Standard for Veterinary Education

Workshop on Standards for Veterinary Education
Bangladesh Veterinary Council
Workshop on
BVC Standard for Veterinary Education
Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam
Dept. of Anatomy and Histology
FVAS, SAU, Sylhet

Workshop on Standards for Veterinary Education
Criteria and Guidance for BVC Approval of
Veterinary Degree Courses in Bangladesh and
Overseas

3Workshop on Standards for Veterinary Education
A statutory body to regulate the practice of veterinary
medicine in Bangladesh that
- Maintains a register of qualified veterinarians
- Preserves rights and privileges of registered
veterinarians
- Ensures standard of proficiency of the registered
veterinarians
- (Section 2(1) of the Bangladesh Veterinary
Practitioners’ Ordinance -1982, Act-1986).

How to ensure the standard of proficiency of
the registered veterinarians?
- Formal examination of graduates seeking
registration
or
- Evaluation of the standard of education of the
Veterinary Schools
(Recognition / Accreditation of Veterinary Schools)

For accreditation of Veterinary Schools
BVC needs some criteria and guidelines
BVC Standards of Veterinary Education

General Scope of Veterinary Education
 A vocationally directed science-based education
covering training across all food and companion
animals, wildlife and aquatic species.
 Primarily concerned with the well being of animals and
their increased productivity.
 Providing practical experience of animal production in
different livestock enterprises.
 Providing experience of veterinary clinical practices and
services at hospital and farm settings and familiarity to
the code of veterinary ethics.
 Imparting knowledge of disease control, veterinary
public health and food safety within the concept of one
health.

Standard 1. Institutional overall objective
The institution must develop and follow its mission
statement.
- Education
- Research
- Services

Standard 2. Organizational set up
The institution offering veterinary degree must be a
part of or affiliated to a university recognized by the
University Grants Commission (UGC).
The institution must have a valid and functional
organizational structure suitable for offering tertiary
education.

Standard 3. Finances
Finances must be adequate to sustain
- the educational programmes,
- adequate research based teaching and
- effective intramural practical and clinical training
and supervised extramural studies.

Standard 4. Students’ admission
Students admitted to veterinary medicine must have
solid background in physics, chemistry, biology and
mathematics from their pre-university studies.
The selection should be competitive; based upon
academic achievements and/or other criteria, such as
test score.

Standard 5. Academic and support staff
The institution must have adequate number of qualified
teaching staff with competence of offering veterinary
education in all subject areas at an appropriate teacher
- student ratio that allows practical and clinical training
of students in small groups.
The workload of the academic staff should be such that
apart from teaching and clinical duties, they should be
able to perform research.
The number of support staff for academic and auxiliary
units should also be adequate.

Standard 6. Curriculum
Veterinary education for professional degree must
comprise at least five years’ full-time theoretical and
practical study (including internship)
The curriculum must cover the subject areas of
• basic biomedical sciences
• para-clinical veterinary sciences
• clinical veterinary medicine (terrestrial & aquatic)
• epidemiology & preventive veterinary medicine
• animal production
• food hygiene and veterinary public health
• economics, sociology & veterinary extension
• professional roles & ethics.
The core veterinary subjects must constitute at least
68 - 70% of the total contact hours.

Standard 7. Essential competences at
graduation (Day-1 skill)
All students must have acquired BVC listed “day-one
competences” by the time they graduate, that include
- 12 general academic and professional attributes
& attitudes, and
- 30 practical competences.
The learning objectives/outcomes of each course must
be clearly defined and explained to both staff and
students.

Standard 8. Facilities and equipment
The campus, lecture halls & classrooms, practical
laboratories, veterinary clinic or teaching hospital and
library must be adequate for the number of students
enrolled and conducive to teaching veterinary
medicine.
Lecture halls and laboratories should be equipped with
teaching aid and equipment.
………

Standard 8. Facilities and equipment (Continuation)
The veterinary clinic or teaching hospital must have adequate
and hygienic premises and modern equipment for the state-of-
the-art clinical investigation, diagnosis and humane treatment
of animals, including provisions for hospitalization, operative
surgery and post operative care, animal exercise, and the
isolation of infectious cases.
Institutions must have a mobile/ambulatory clinic or equivalent
facilities so that students can practice field veterinary medicine
under expert supervision.

Standard 9. Animals and teaching materials
of animal origin
The practical aspects of animal production must be taught
on the institute's own farms or on farms to which it has
access.
The veterinary clinic or teaching hospital must operate
round the clock.
Adequate number of clinical cases representing all the
major species relevant to veterinary practice in the country
must be made available to the students.
………

Standard 9. Animals and teaching materials
of animal origin (Continuation)
Adequate number of carcasses of different species should
be provided to the students for post mortem examination.
Internship/externship placement centers must be chosen
judiciously where supervised training are possible covering
all areas of veterinary practices.

Standard 10. Library and learning resources
The Library must offer a comprehensive and up-to-date
range of books and journals.
The institution must provide internet facilities for use by
staff, students and researchers.

Standard 11. Quality assurance
The institution must have an in-built mechanism of
quality assurance of veterinary education.
Students’ evaluation and grading system must be sound
and of acceptable standard.
Teachers’ performances should be evaluated.
There should be regular exercise of institutional self
assessment through students’, alumni and employers’
feedback.
There must be a standing process of curriculum review
and improvement.

The Evaluation Process for
BVC Recognition of a
Veterinary Degree

The Work Flow of the Evaluation Process
Institutional Self Evaluation
Appointment of Visitation Team by BVC
Visit to the Institute &
Submission of Report
Institute’s response to the Report
Final decision by BVC on
recognition of the degree

Composition of Visitation Team
Chairman
(A senior Professor of veterinary discipline)
Members:
• A member of BVC
• A professor of veterinary discipline*
• An education expert (not necessarily of
veterinary discipline)
• A practicing veterinarian having at least 15
years of field experience.
*If the Chairman is a professor of clinical subject then the
member under ‘professor’ category should be a professor of
pre- or para-clinical subject, or vice versa.

Veterinary Education Evaluation Committee
A standing committee of BVC that will advise the Council
in making decision with regard to recognition or
accreditation of veterinary degree;
- Propose panel for Visitation Team
- Analyze the report of the Visitation Team
- Analyze the feedback/response from the Institute
- Prepare working paper for the Council Meeting

Tools to be Used in Evaluation Process
1. Guidance for the preparation of Self Evaluation
Report (SER)
2. Observation checklist: physical facilities, equipment
and resources
3. Questionnaire for graduates’ satisfaction survey
4. Questionnaire for employers’ satisfaction survey
5. Format for the Report of the Visitation Team

An example:
A Page from the
Report Format
of the Visitation
Team

BVC Decision on Recognition or
Accreditation of Veterinary Degree
Available options:
1. Recognition of the veterinary degree
2. Conditional approval of the veterinary degree
3. Not to recognize the degree, or to remove
recognition

Recognition of an overseas veterinary degree will only be
considered following a formal application from the overseas
veterinary school or a graduate from an overseas
veterinary school.
The evaluation may be based on papers, however, the
BVC, at its discretion may appoint a team of visitors to
undertake a formal visitation at the expense of the
overseas school.
Recognition of Overseas Veterinary Degrees

Recognition of Overseas Veterinary Degrees
Criteria:
1. The courses must be broadly comparable with the
requirements of BVC for the recognition of veterinary
degree in Bangladesh.
2. The level of clinical instruction must be comparable to
that required of veterinary schools in Bangladesh.
3. The degree of the overseas veterinary school must be
recognized in its own region.
4. The overseas veterinary school must have been
producing graduates for at least five years.

Last but not the least
This is a living document.
The present document is a trial version.
An updated version will be prepared very soon
based on the suggestions from the stakeholders
and experiences of first implementation

Workshop on BVC Standard for Veterinary Education

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