Curriculum

Introduction

The Faculty of Veterinary Science is one of the most important faculties of Kabul University. The faculty was established in 1973. Veterinary profession is not only important for providing animal health services but, also deals with public health, because many diseases are common among human and animals (zoonosis).

  

The faculty has an accepted curriculum recently revised on Outcome Based Education (OBE) for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM), and the enhancement of the faculty’s training facilities have resulted in certain corresponding changes in the faculty’s academic and organizational structure. The revised curriculum demand a more detailed and integrated teaching/training program and the introduction of new subjects into the study program, and it became organizational structure.

 

 

Accordingly, the faculty recently decided to have a new curriculum in consultation with the national local and an international requirement. The new curriculum will be applied for the academic years. At the new curriculum mostly focus is on veterinary medicine not veterinary science. There were of course, problem, as the earlier teaching program did not provide for all the courses envisaged in the old curriculum and there were great gaps in the subject content of some courses. Furthermore, lectures rectified these gaps to a major extent, but not completely.

 

 

The new curriculum for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine has covered 2368 theoretical credit hours and 1904 practical credit hours that became totally, 4272 credit hours. Overall there is an almost 50:50 proportion of theory and practical and the distribution of lab and classroom hours is indicated for each course. 

 

 

Overall, the new curriculum will reflect both the particular needs of Afghanistan with its large population of peasants and transhumant pastoralists, and the guideline of the 1978 FAO/WHO report on veterinary education, which defined a veterinarian as “a person with wide and comprehensive knowledge and experience of animals in health and disease, trained to apply that knowledge in the recognition, prophylaxis and treatment of animal disease, the improvement of animal production, the enhancement of animal welfare and the safeguarding of human health”

 

 

The revised curriculum is officially approved under protocol number 44 on 2017 of the faculty of veterinary science academic board and protocol number 2 on May 2018 of Kabul University Board. The curriculum covers preface from dean of the faculty, an introduction and brief description of faculty, details on teaching programs per each semester, brief definition of the faculty of veterinary science, present situation, organogram of the faculty, general instructional need assessment, vision, mission, instructional objectives, introduction of content, credits and code number of subjects, internship and field visits, ratio of theory and practice, teaching and learning methods, evaluation methods and finally introduction of syllabus of studies for each department.

 

Table (No-3) shows detail of information and particulars on curriculum structure

 

Faculty	Veterinary Science
Year of Establishment	1973
Total credit	203
Number of departments	5
Specific subjects	50%
General and principle subjects	50% (Monograph 8%, principle subjects 30%, and University based subjects 12%.

 

 

Particular description of teaching program per semester at the faculty of veterinary science faculty is given in table (No-4-12)

SN	Table # - 4 First Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Modern history	VS 102	2	2	32	0	0
2	General and inorganic chemistry	VS 103	2	2	32	0	0
3	Zoology	VS 105	5	4	64	1	32
4	Mathematics	VS 106	2	2	32	0	0
5	English Language-I	VS 107	2	2	32	0	0
6	Islamic study-I	VS 101	1	1	16	0	0
7	Herb plant	VS 108	3	2	32	1	32
8	Organic Chemistry	VS 104	3	2	32	1	32
Total credit number			20	17	272	3	96

 

 

 

SN	Table # -5 Second Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Islamic civilization History	VS 202	2	2	32	0	0
2	Veterinary Anatomy-I	VS 211	5	4	64	1	32
3	Histology & Embryology-I	VS 214	5	4	64	1	32
4	English Language-II	VS 207	2	2	32	0	0
5	Physics	VS 209	3	2	32	1	32
6	Islamic study-II	VS 201	1	1	16	0	0
7	Medical Latin	VS 215	3	2	32	1	32
Total credit number			20	17	272	3	96

 

 

 

SN	Table # -6 Third Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Veterinary Anatomy-II	VS 311	4	3	48	1	32
2	Veterinary Physiology	VS 312	5	4	64	1	32
3	Veterinary Biochemistry	VS 313	5	4	64	1	32
4	Histology & Embryology-II	VS 314	3	2	32	1	32
5	Islamic study-III	VS 301	1	1	16	0	0
6	Veterinary Ecology	VS 321	2	2	32	0	0
Total credit number			20	16	256	4	128

 

 

SN	Table #-7 Fourth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Genetics & Biometry	VS 419	5	3	48	2	64
2	Veterinary Physiology-II	VS 412	2	1	16	1	32
3	Veterinary Biochemistry-II	VS 413	3	2	32	1	32
4	Large animal rearing	VS 416	4	2	32	2	64
5	Islamic study-IV	VS 401	1	1	16	0	0
6	Veterinary Bacteriology-I	VS 430	5	4	64	1	32
Total credit number			20	13	208	7	224

 

 

 

SN	Table #- 8 Fifth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Sheep& goats rearing	VS 518	3	2	32	1	32
2	Animal Nutrition-I	VS 522	5	3	48	2	64
3	Veterinary Bacteriology-II	VS 530	5	4	48	1	32
4	Veterinary Parasitology-I	VS 534	4	3	48	1	32
5	Islamic study-V	VS 501	1	1	16	0	0
6	Animal Breeding	VS 520	3	2	32	1	32
Total credit number			21	15	224	6	192

 

 

 

 

SN	Table #-9 Sixth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Pharmacology& toxicology-I	VS 626	4	2	32	2	64
2	Animal Nutrition-II	VS 622	3	2	32	1	32
3	Veterinary Parasitology-II	VS 634	3	2	32	1	32
4	Veterinary Virology	VS 636	3	2	32	1	32
5	Animal Hygiene	VS 637	2	2	32	0	0
6	Veterinary Pathology-I	VS 631	5	4	64	1	32
7	Islamic Study-VI	VS 601	1	1	16	0	0
Total credit number			21	15	240	6	192

 

 

 

SN	Table #-10 Seventh Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Fish& Honey Bee rearing	VS 723	5	3	48	2	64
2	Veterinary Parasitology-III	VS 734	3	2	32	1	32
3	Pharmacology& toxicology-II	VS 726	4	2	32	2	64
4	Veterinary Pathology-II	VS 731	3	2	32	1	32
5	Pathophysiology	VS 735	5	4	64	1	32
6	Islamic study-VII	VS 701	1	1	16	0	0
Total credit number			21	14	224	7	224

 

 

SN	Table #- 11 Eighth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Principle of Research & Monograph	VS 824	2	2	32	0	0
2	Veterinary Epidemiology-I	VS 832	5	4	64	1	32
3	Food Hygiene –I	VS 839	4	3	48	1	32
4	Islamic study-VIII	VS 801	1	1	16	0	0
5	Clinical Diagnosis	VS 825	3	2	32	1	48
6	Veterinary Triogenology-I	VS 829	2	1	16	1	48
7	Food Technology	VS 838	4	2	32	2	64
Total credit number			21	15	240	6	224

 

 

SN	Table #-12 Ninth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Veterinary Epidemiology-II	VS 932	5	4	64	1	32
2	Poultry rearing	VS 917	3	2	32	1	32
3	Veterinary Surgery-I	VS 927	2	1	16	1	48
4	Veterinary Triogenology-II	VS 929	3	2	32	1	48
5	Veterinary Internal Medicine-I	VS 928	3	2	32	1	48
6	Veterinary legislation	VS 941	2	2	32	1	48
7	Food Hygiene	VS 939	4	2	32	2	64
Total credit number			21	15	240	6	240

 

 

SN	Table # 13 Tenth Semester
	Subjects	Code Number	Number of credit	Hours of Credit
				Theory		Practical
				Credit	Total	Credit	Total
1	Poultry disease	VS 1033	3	2	32	1	32
2	Veterinary surgery II	VS 1027	5	3	48	2	32
3	Internal Medicine II	VS 1028	4	2	32	2	48
4	Food quality control	VS 1040	4	2	32	2	48
5	Monograph	VS 1024	2	2	32	0	48
Total credit number			18	11	176	7	288

 

Table (No-14) indicates total credits based on semester and credit hours

Semester	Total credits	Theory		Practical
		Credit	Credit Hours	Credit	Credit Hours
1	20	17	272	3	96
2	20	17	272	3	96
3	20	16	256	4	128
4	20	13	208	7	224
5	21	15	240	6	192
6	21	15	240	6	192
7	21	14	224	7	224
8	21	15	240	6	224
9	21	15	240	6	240
10	18	11	176	7	288
Total	203	148	2364	55	1904
Grand Total credit hours for theory and practical			4272

 

Credits and subjects code is indicated at the above tables.

Internship and Field visits

Up to date internship program is not officially included into effect at the faculty curriculum, and due to some problems field visits are limited.

 

Ratio of theory and practice

Theory and practical sessions are fixed base on each subject requirements. Different subjects during five years of education at the faculty of veterinary science is organized and regulated based on the bay law of credit system of the Ministry of Higher Education which is divided into 4 groups; University based subjects (12%), basic subjects (30%), specialty subjects (50%), and monograph (8%). Accordingly, among the 4272 (100%) credit hours, 2368 (55.4%) is theory and 1904 (44.6%) credit hours is practical classes.

 

Teaching and learning methods

• Lecturing
• Instructional videos
• Individual and group seminars
• Individual and group discussions
• Student Centered Active Learning (SCL)
• Audio Visual and Kinesthetic (AVK)
• Case Base Learning (CBL)
• Problem base Learning (PBL)
• Student Participation at class (SP)
• Practical Sessions at Laboratory (PSL)
• Tutorial
• Brain strumming (BS)
• Simulation and role play.
• Blended learning
• Electronic Learning (EL).
• Portfolio.

Evaluation Methods (Summative & Formative)

• Class Evaluation (CE)
• Mid-term Examination (ME)
• Assignment and Homework (A &H)
• Practical Laboratory Evaluation (PLE)
• Final Examination (FE).