Teaching skills: Revisions to veterinary education suggested

UVAS holds workshop on challenges in teaching veterinary sciences

LAHORE: Participants at a workshop titled Future Challenges in Veterinary Teaching on Friday proposed revisions to the curriculum of veterinary education. They stressed the importance of addressing contemporary requirements for livestock and related sectors. 

The workshop was organised by the Centre for Educational Policy and Administration (CEPA) at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS).

Vice Chancellor Talat Naseer Pasha, CEPA president Prof Nasim Ahmad, Prof Khushi Muhammad, Prof Habibur Rehman and Dr Hafsa Zainab, among other faculty members, attended the session.

Dr Hussain delivered a lecture on future challenges in veterinary teaching. He spoke about various aspects of innovative veterinary curriculum and shared his experiences and knowledge with the UVAS faculty members. He discussed post-mortem techniques, cattle necropsy, meat hygiene, papillary light reflex pathway, integrity of nerves, mummery gland tumours, anatomy, skin, muscles, neuter anatomy, reproduction anatomy, histology, microbiology, rabies/dog bites, epidemiology and clinical procedures.

The VC stressed the need to update the curriculum of veterinary sciences professional degree programmes regularly. He said commercial poultry, dairy and meat units provided extensive learning grounds for undergraduate students.  He lauded the CEPA’s efforts in organising the workshop and teachers to arrange for their student to visit such units.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 8^th, 2015.