Overview
Pathology Department was established in 1987 in parallel with the foundation of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University. At this time, Pathology Department had one professor, Prof. Dr. Abdel-moneim El-meligy Aboel-Roos, in addition to four assistant lecturers, Dr. Hamdy Abdel-wahab Feiteh, Dr. Ahmed Shoieb, Dr. Mahmoud Mohamed El-hammamy, Dr. Salah Moselhy Aly and one teaching assistant, Dr. Amina Ali Dessouki. After that, other teaching assistants were appointed until the teaching staff reached 13 members, as well as one assistant lecturer and two teaching assistants.
Mission
The Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine SCU is committed to presenting an outstanding educational program for teaching and diagnosis of animal diseases to have professional veterinarians and researchers for promoting animal, avian, and fish productivity, in addition to ensuring public health and food safety.
Vision
The Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University aspires to be recognized as one of the top schools of Veterinary Pathology in Egypt and worldwide for preparing pre-graduate and graduate students to be highly qualified and highly motivated in diseases diagnosis, research, and fruitful interaction with the community.
Goals
- To offer a high-quality course, in which students are stimulated to challenge, accepted experience in the field of pathology.
- To offer graduates the capability for life-long learning skills.
- To offer graduates the capability to apply research concepts and technologies in the field of pathology, and to find practical solutions for community problems.
- To offer graduates the proper evaluation capacity, and the ability to apply the ethical and legal frame of the medical practice-code.
- To provide graduates with satisfactory interpersonal and communication skills confirming the sensitive role of the veterinarian in society and disseminating the awareness of maintaining animal and human health.
- To prepare graduates for careers in the field of pathology
- To acquire knowledge and understanding of various causes of animal diseases, their pathogenesis, macroscopic and microscopic pathological lesions (viral, parasitic, and protozoa diseases), and laboratory diagnosis.
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.