Overview
The establishment of this zoonoses major in the department of Animal Hygiene, Zoonoses, and Animal behavior and management was in 1986 with the beginning of the establishment of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University.
Mission
Zoonoses major seeks to graduate high caliber in understanding the epidemiology of zoonoses, diagnosis of zoonoses, and education of people for the risk of infection and the measures for control of zoonoses. Making advanced research and projects in the field of zoonoses with establishing strategies for control and prevention of zoonoses with collaboration with local and international agencies.
Vision
Zoonoses major of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, aims to be pioneer in zoonoses and public health on the local, regional and international level based on excellence and continuous improvement in its education program, scientific research and community service.
Goals
- Preparing a highly qualified graduate:
- Equipped with knowledge about natural environments in which animals’ lives, it’s natural and abnormal behavior, and its reflection on the health (Positively- negatively).
- Trained on health interventions in environments that lack health care as to, provide health and preventive care for different animals.
- Aware of all diseases determinants in different environments and their interaction with disease’ occurrence.
- Fulfilled with a background about epidemiology of zoonotic diseases.
- Aware with methods of dealing and diagnosing those diseases with the aim of raising animal’s health and productivity efficiency in an economic matter.
- How to spread awareness and prevent those diseases among society’s members.
- Students/ participation in Faculty’s and University conferences, research, and advanced projects related to the field of animal health, management, and zoonoses.
- Creating strategies to raise awareness, combating those diseases, and prevent their occurrence in cooperation with local and international bodies.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, grants the student Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine.
Studying zoonoses provide the student with the impacts of zoonoses on livestock production, human health and socio-economy. Supply the student with a complete knowledge on the occurrence and epidemiology of selected zoonoses including their etiology, source and modes of infections, clinical picture in animals and humans, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention.
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.
Postgraduate studies in zoonoses enables the students to master the principles and rules of the scientific research, implement the analytical and criticizing techniques in the field of zoonoses and related sciences, realize contemporary problems and new theories in the field of zoonoses and utilize the most recent technologies that can serve his/her career in veterinary practice.
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.
The department combines Animal, poultry and environmental hygiene laboratory that was constructed in 1987. The laboratory is equipped with facilities to measure a wide range of environmental parameters in ambient water and waste water including physiochemical and bacteriological parameters, ambient air quality, and soil.
Commonly conducted water quality tests:
Physiochemical parameters:
• Temperature testing
• PH testing
• Dissolved oxygen test
• Salinity, electrical conductivity and TDS testing
• Chloride testing
• Hardness (total, Ca and Mg), Alkalinity
• Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate (colorimetric)
• Total Phosphate (colorimetric)
• Sulphate (colorimetric)
Microbiological examination:
• Total bacteria count
• Total Enterobacteriaceae
Research in Zoonoses aims to efficiently apply basic methodologies of scientific research, implement the analytical program in the field of Zoonoses, detect and solve zoonoses problems based on scientific and research evidence, and realize the veterinarian role in community development and environmental sanitation worldwide.