Evaluation and accreditation of the veterinary study programme at LIFE

This year, a European evaluation team will be visiting LIFE; more specifically in the form of the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE), which will be paying LIFE a visit from Monday 27 September to Friday 1 October 2010. Two reports have been prepared prior to the visit.

 

Traditionally, the veterinary study programmes are evaluated regularly at approx. ten-year intervals. In Europe, the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE ) is responsible for handling the evaluation procedure. Based on our self-evaluation report and a visit, EAEVE will determine whether we still comply with the EU’s minimum requirements for the veterinary study programme. An evaluation visit will be paid to LIFE this year, and, as a new initiative, the veterinary study programme is to be accredited for the first time. Two reports have therefore been prepared prior to the visit, which takes place from Monday 27 September to Friday 1 October 2010.

During those days, a ten-strong team headed by chairwoman Ana Bravo del Moral will be visiting the four veterinary departments as well as the Department of Basic Sciences and Environment (IGM), which is responsible for the chemistry and physics courses, with a view to enquiring into the written reporting on site.

 

Accreditation

LIFE was last evaluated in 2001, and EAEVE has changed its procedure since then and now conducts both evaluation and accreditation of the veterinary programmes.

In brief, an accreditation can be described as “writing down what you are doing, and doing what you have written down”. By putting into writing everything that the study programme should comprise and how exams will be held, individual students can check whether everything is as it should be and whether they would like to follow the programme at LIFE by comparing it to programmes at other veterinary institutions. All aspects are subject to control – including whether the programme is developing and progressing.

 

Open session

As a part of the visit, employees and students will be offered the opportunity to talk to the EAEVE team in an ‘Open Session in Confidence for Individuals’, which will be held on Thursday 30 September at 12.00-12.45 pm in room D4, Nordre Sti at Frederiksberg Campus.

 

AVMA

As some of you may recall, LIFE received a visit from AVMA last year – the American counterpart to EAEVE. AVMA was here on a preaccreditation visit with a view to checking whether the veterinary study programme in Denmark complies with the US standards such that an education from LIFE could also be used in the USA in future. We are expecting to undergo the actual AVMA accreditation within the next few years to ensure our graduates more direct access to the American market. Preparations are underway with a view to merging and globalising the EAEVE and AVMA evaluation and accreditation procedure. If this work succeeds, it would relieve all veterinary universities and faculties of a huge administrative burden. For that reason, an observer from AVMA will be participating in the visit to LIFE.

 

Link to

Report 1 – Report 2