Overview
The Department of Veterinary Pharmacology started functioning in 1986 with the establishment of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at Ismailia affiliated to Suez Canal University. The Department was started with 2 major specialty include Veterinary pharmacology & toxicology and second is Forensic Medicine. Then later on 2001 the veterinary pharmacology Dept came into being as an independent existence with a skeleton staff of two Professors in position, one associate professor & one assistant professor. Since then the department has been fast
developing to achieve excellence. The department was shifted to the present building in the year 2005, and was named as department of Veterinary Pharmacology headed by prof. Dr. Mostafa Fayez who raised the department to a compatible level in terms of teaching staff, reproductive endocrinology, and Research approaches employ a wide variety of biochemical pharmacological and microscopic techniques, utilizing cell culture and whole organisms, instrumentation and appearance. One senior professor in pharmacology Dept, Dr. Hatem Abdel-khalik Gammaz, had a position as dean of the college during October, 2011 till he gone to Allah on March 2012.
Mission
Preparing a Veterinarian who has the knowledge, mental concepts, and professional skills that qualify him to compete in the labour market at the local and regional levels. Moreover, distinguished in the manufacture use and control of veterinary drugs and able to keep abreast of scientific and technological developments. In addition to, conducting research that contributes to solving livestock problems and serving society.
The department strives to maintain excellence in the areas of research, teaching, and service to the faculty, university, and community. The department extends its cooperation to all other departments of the faculty as well as other collaborative studies with other institutions.
Vision
The Pharmacology department aims to become a reference and a house of expertise in the field of Veterinary Pharmacology based in the offered courses discriminating educational programs, research, and community activities.
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.