Overview
The department was established in 1986 under the name of the Department of Anatomy and Histology. It was the first department in the faculty under the presidency of Dr. Abdel Hamid Kamel in histology and Dr. Thana Mukhtar Al-Nahla and Dr. Saber Muhammad Shukri as representatives of anatomy and embryology. Later, the department was separated into the Cytology and Histology Department in 1991.
Since its inception, the department has been interested in self-reliance on teaching the relationship between the histological structure of cells and tissues and its vital function by preparing all types of tissues in the department which gives each student the full opportunity to obtain a set of microscopic slides.
Mission
The department aims to provide distinguished educational services using the latest scientific methods for undergraduate and graduate students and to carry out innovative applied research for community service and environmental development.
Vision
The department´s vision focuses on providing electronic educational services, raising technical skills for undergraduate and graduate students, and conducting innovative applied research in communication with other scientific departments to serve society and the surrounding environment.
Goals
- Providing distinguished educational services to increase the students ’skills.
- Converting decisions into electronic courses.
- Developing the teaching and learning strategy in proportion to the capabilities of students.
- Conduct innovative applied research and encourage faculty members to conduct joint research with other departments of the college and the corresponding colleges.
- Developing the skills of faculty members by attending seminars, training courses, and conferences.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, grants the student Bachelor 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.