Overview
The Animal Medicine Division is located within the Suez Canal University in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Our goals are to educate and practice the diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of animal diseases for large and small ruminants, camels, equine, and pets.
Mission
The mission is done through education and research, providing the foundation for high-qualified graduates, who can make diagnoses and effectively control diseases locally and globally.
Vision
The vision is to be a specialist and leader in the education and practice of animal medicine and infectious diseases through specialization, teamwork, and community service.
Goals
- The teaching of Animal Internal Medicine and infectious diseases.
- Training students to diagnose and treat internal diseases at the animal and farm levels, both locally and globally.
- To allow students to explore teaching and research as potential career paths in the animal medicine field.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, grants the student Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Education system
1- Learning language along all academic years is English, but in Arabic for University requirements.
2- Bachelor degree period is 6 years.
3- Education system inside the faulty is Credit hours system. Each academic year is divided into two semesters.
4- Student per each semester takes theoretical and practical courses, mentioned in the academic plan of education program.
5- For each course, number of hours are mentioned in education plan.
6- Student is shifted from one year to next year, in case of success in all courses, failure or absence (with or without an excuse) minimum in two courses only.
7- Student who failed in more than two courses, must re-take courses failed in and undergo the exam in the next year.
8- As for senior students who failed in more than two courses, they will take the exam in the 2nd round in September. If they failed in 2nd round exam, Statement Z will be applied on them.
9- In case the student passed in re-taken course, he/she will acquire highest “accepted” grade, if the student is absent with an accepted excuse, he/she will acquire actual grade.
The faculty offers its graduates different degrees to acquire:
- Diploma degree
- Master’s degree
- PhD degree
Terms of applying:
- Student applies a request to faculty’s Dean, who shifts him\her to department’s council in charge, as to state research’s topic and program, Finally all documents will be presented to faculty’s council for needed action.
- Research topic is stated before applying at least with two years. Committee is in charge to edit research’s title.
- Faculty’s council is in charge with stopping student’s registration for a period of time, in case of applying an accepted excuse, deprives him\her from education or research completion. This period will not be included with period mentioned in (16) (17) terms.
- Student’s registration is stopped in case:
Supervisor’s report about the student is unsatisfying.
Estimated period is ended and student did not apply the research yet.
If the committee refuses discussing research paper twice.
- Student applies 10 copies of research paper, after being accepted, as to be distributed among committee’s members and faculty’s library.
- The committee is in charge to exchange research paper with other universities.
Name of the Project: Genetic and antigenic characterization of circulating Foot and mouth disease- virus strains in Egypt to improve the locally produced vaccines.
Name of the participant: Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Salem Soltan
Aim of the project:
1- Improve the FMDV vaccine.
2- Decrease economic losses from FMDV outbreaks by maximizing the immune response, using the most prevalent viruses as vaccine strains.
3- Increase the profits of farmers by improving the FMDV vaccines.
4- Study FMDV surveillance and risk factors in Egypt.