Borut Zemljič

FVE-EAEVE Working Group on Development of a Model

Curriculum for Animal Welfare in Veterinary Undergraduate

Education

Borut Zemljič

FVE General Assembly Amsterdam,The Netherlands, 20121

Animal Welfare Curriculum – Working Group

David Morton - UK (Chairman)Nancy De Briyne - Belgium (FVE Secretariat)Vlatko Ilieski - Fyrom (AWARE)Linda Keeling - Sweden (AWARE)Dirk Neuhaus - Germany (FVE)Frauke Ohl - Netherlands (FVE)Anna-Caroline Wöhr - Germany (EAEVE)Manuel Sant’Ana - Portugal (EAEVE) Borut Zemljic - Slovenia (FVE /ECOVE)


Group A HVM AW AL P

HVM + AW +

AL

AW + AL

AW + AL + P AW + P AL + P

HVM+ AW + AL + P

55 3 4 25 3 1 5 2 1 8 3

Conceptual frameworks found in the teaching of ethics at 55 European veterinary faculties.

Curricular distribution of 98 compulsory ethics’ related units.

Four Conceptual Frameworks:

HVM = History of Veterinary Medicine

AW = Animal Welfare

AL = Animal Law

P = Professionalism(Sociology; Philosophy; Management)

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What is actually animal welfare

• Don’t mix animal welfare with animal rights,

• Don’t mix animal welfare with animal law – e.g. pure regulations

• Don’t mix animal welfare with animal health

• Animal welfare is more, much more health+wellbeing+regulations, ethitcs+philosophy+sociology++++


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Animal WelfareWhat is it?

AW Science : What is our impact on animals ?

- The effects of housing systems on cattle well-being

AW Ethics : How should we treat animals ?

- What are the acceptable housing systems for a dairy cow?

AW Law : How must we treat animals ?

- What are the legal requirements for housing cows?5


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TASK 1 - to map animal welfare science, law and ethics teaching and examination in undergraduate education in the EU.(before the end of 2012)

TASK 2 - to draft a model animal welfare curriculum for undergraduate veterinary education taking into account the current teaching in European veterinary faculties, considering the core teaching subjects and possible ways of implementing it into the curriculum.(by the end of 2013).



• Roles of veterinarians in society;• Animal welfare as a dynamic concept;• Social debate on the moral status of animals;• Professional public accountability.

Animal Welfare Curriculum – Why is it relevant ?


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Animal welfare in veterinary education:

its an Opportunity in strenghten Animal Welfare

teaching in the Vet Curriculum !

It is an Opportunity for the Profession!


Why veterinarians!?• The veterinarian is informed about the various animal

welfare concepts and the societal debate about animal welfare, and acts in the spirit of the definition of welfare promulgated by the faculty.

• The veterinarian possesses knowledge regarding the legal and social context of animal welfare.

• The veterinarian holds a scientifically founded position on the issue of animal welfare.

• The veterinarian is capable of evaluating the welfare of the animal and to recognise possible abuses.

• The veterinarian provides advice on how to improve welfare conditions in order to achieve the most beneficial situation for the animal.


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www.welfarequality.net/12


Animal Welfare in EuropeWhat has been done ?

EU-funded project(2004 – 2009)

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www.aware-welfare.eu

Task 1


WP2-Education1. To map farm animal welfare university education and training in an

enlarged Europe with emphasis on existing differences and gaps (Task 2.1)

2. To promote collaboration between university lecturers across Europe through workshops on developing research education in farm animal welfare (Task 2.2)

3. To establish partnerships to facilitate short, medium and long term student and staff exchanges within an enlarged Europe and candidate countries (Task 2.3)

4. To develop strategies to stimulate pan-European integration in education related to animal welfare (Task 2.4)

http://www.aware-welfare.eu/

Questionnaire 2 - Mapping of Education• Number of courses BSc., MSc., PhD., Professional education

and Other level• Main focus of the course• Number of obligatory courses• Credits ECTS of courses• Number of enrolled students attending courses• Hours of farm animal welfare • Percentage of farm animal welfare of the whole course• Percentage of the main teaching methods encompassing farm

animal welfare• Number of accessible teaching materials


BSc.; 82

MSc.; 82

PhD.; 12

Professional education; 5

Other level; 3

Number of courses BSc., MSc., PhD., Professional education and Other level in all countries

Questionnaire 2 - Mapping of Education


Questionnaire 2 - Mapping of Education


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a) Final AWARE results by middle 2012• Decide whether additional investigations are

necessary to map the stateb) FVE-EAEVE Group continues to work on:

• Aims of teaching• Syllabus content• Teaching methods• Teaching format (ECTS, workload, place in

curriculum, integration, resources)• Examination

c) Elaboration of the report

Animal Welfare Curriculum – Future work


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TASK 1 - to map animal welfare science, law and ethics teaching and examination in undergraduate education in the EU.(before the end of 2012).

Till today we made introduction, aims of teaching and

syllabus



European Directive 2005/ 36/ EC


Guideline Syllabus content

General aims of the syllabus Veterinarians are capable of monitoring and improving the health and welfare of animals.


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What must be contained in AW syllabus?

• Deal with concepts of welfare,• evaluate the animal’s how they functioning in

its environment,• formulate and justify a standpoint on the issue

of animal welfare,• place animal welfare in a social context,• place animal welfare in a legal context.


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Ideas, comments and suggestions.

THANK YOU


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