Overview
The Department of Parasitology was established at the beginning of work at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University in 1987, and it had one teacher, Dr. Hamdi Muhammad Abdel Wahab Al-Jawadi, in addition to one assistant teacher, Dr. Muhammad Jamal Abdel Moneim Hassan, and one demonstrator, Dr.Ahmed Anwar ElSayed After that, teaching assistants were appointed by assignment, until the teaching staff reached six members, including a vacationing member, as well as one assistant teacher and one teaching assistant.
The Parasitology Department is one of the departments of the college that contributes scientifically and intellectually to preparing veterinarians for the field working in veterinary units, farms, slaughterhouses, pharmaceutical companies, veterinary laboratories and vaccines laboratories, and all fields of veterinary medicine.
The department is concerned with studying parasites of various kinds, worms, arthropods, and protozoa, both of which infect animals and humans and that move between them. The department focuses on the problems caused by parasites, methods of diagnosing them, and how to control them in humans, domestic animals, wild animals, birds, and fish.
It also teaches 10 courses related to parasitology for graduate students, diploma, master, and doctoral degrees.
Mission
Providing an advanced and distinguished educational service in parasitology that contributes to the number of distinguished veterinarians who can compete in the working field and have high professional ethics at the national and regional levels.
Supervising and preparing for master's and doctoral theses in the field of parasites for applicants and providing modern and advanced scientific research aimed at solving community problems and providing innovative applied solutions in the field of animal and human parasites by sending its members to missions outside the country and by fetching projects to provide the department with the latest equipment and supplies to advance the educational and research process.
Vision
The Parasitology Department aspires to occupy a high position among the departments of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Parasitology Departments in the corresponding Faculties regionally and internationally.
Goals
- Providing an advanced and distinguished educational service in parasitology.
- Establishing general skills in how to use computers to search for information related to parasites.
- Developing students' cognitive skills in the field of parasites of all kinds and methods of diagnosing.
- Developing mental and creative capabilities through laying down ways and methods for reducing and controlling the infection.
- Development of general skills acquired during training to work in teams and workshops.
- Developing skills in the field of parasites by using the microscope to identify and diagnose parasites and their different stages.
- Providing an advanced research service that contributes to solving environmental problems and reducing parasitic diseases in animals and humans.
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