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Currently, quality standards and controls for veterinary studies are not established in Ethiopia, and the country does not have any type of veterinary council or oversight body to establish such standards or the essential evaluation and credentialing procedures. The veterinary degree, as currently obtained in Ethiopia, is not internationally recognized. A second specific concern for veterinary education in Ethiopia is that it is not well adapted to the special needs of the country. Clearly, quality control of veterinary education needs to be established, and teaching methods and materials need to be adapted to the special needs of the country. <\/jats:p><jats:p> So far, the veterinary faculty in Ethiopia has been more interested in partnerships with universities from developed countries than in partnerships and cooperation with other African universities. In 2002, after six years of cooperation with a German university, the Veterinary Faculty at Addis Ababa started its own post-graduate program, with some key contributions from foreign instructors and some foreign funding. While this has been a service to Ethiopian veterinary medicine, the cooperation of the Ethiopian veterinary schools with African universities must also be strengthened. Overall, the good efforts to date in Ethiopian veterinary medicine have only barely scratched the surface of its critical needs. In order to meet Ethiopia's needs for both a reliable and high-quality veterinary education and a trustworthy animal disease surveillance mechanism, it is important that veterinary education in Ethiopia be improved. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3138\/jvme.33.2.244","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,1,11]],"date-time":"2008-01-11T19:53:04Z","timestamp":1200081184000},"page":"244-247","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["A Status Report of Veterinary Education in Ethiopia: Perceived Needs, Past History, Recent Changes, and Current and Future Concerns"],"prefix":"10.3138","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Friederike","family":"Mayen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1696","reference":[{"key":"B1","first-page":"23","volume-title":"Proceedings of a National Workshop on Managing Animal Health Constraints to Export Marketing of Meat and Livestock","author":"Zewdie S","year":"2004"},{"key":"B2","volume-title":"Delivery of Livestock Services: Some Experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa","author":"Emmanuel TN","year":"2004"},{"key":"B3","first-page":"132","volume":"23","author":"de Balogh KK","year":"2000","journal-title":"Argos"},{"key":"B4","volume-title":"Prospectus: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine","author":"Addis Ababa University","year":"1996"},{"key":"B5","volume-title":"The Joint Post-graduate MSc Program in Tropical Veterinary Epidemiology 1996\u20132002: A Successful 6-Year North\u2013South University Partnership","author":"Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ","year":"2002"},{"key":"B6","unstructured":"Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia (2002).Regulations to provide for the registration and licensing of Animal Health Professionals, Council of Ministers Regulation preamble.Addis Ababa"},{"key":"B7","unstructured":"Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia (2002).Regulations to provide for the exercise of the Veterinary Profession, Council of Ministers Regulation preamble.Addis Ababa"},{"key":"B8","unstructured":"Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1995).Proclamation No. 4\/1995, Definition of Powers and Duties of the executive Organs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Proclamation.Federal Negarit Gazeta.1(4),Art. 21"},{"key":"B9","first-page":"105","volume-title":"Community-Based Animal Health Care: A Practical Guide to Improving Primary Veterinary Services","author":"Iles K","year":"2002"},{"key":"B10","unstructured":"Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2002).Proclamation No. 267\/2002, Animal Diseases Prevention and Control Proclamation.Federal Negarit Gazeta.8 (14), Addis Ababa1700Article 16, 17."},{"key":"B11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"269","DOI":"10.1016\/0304-4017(94)90095-7","volume":"54","author":"Verster A","year":"1994","journal-title":"Vet Parasitol"},{"issue":"39","key":"B12","first-page":"35","volume":"1","author":"Sylvester H","year":"2003","journal-title":"Der Ueberblick"},{"key":"B13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"383","DOI":"10.20506\/rst.23.1.1490","volume":"23","author":"De Deken R","year":"2004","journal-title":"Rev Sci Tech"}],"container-title":["Journal of Veterinary Medical Education"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.3138\/jvme.33.2.244","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,13]],"date-time":"2025-03-13T08:23:30Z","timestamp":1741854210000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/10.3138\/jvme.33.2.244"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2006,6]]},"references-count":13,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2006,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.3138\/jvme.33.2.244"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3138\/jvme.33.2.244","relation":{},"ISSN":["0748-321X","1943-7218"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0748-321X","type":"print"},{"value":"1943-7218","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2006,6]]}}}