Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry

Arevik Abovyan

Candidate of Sciences, Docent

Acting Dean

Contacts

  • 19 Koryun Str., 0009 Yerevan, RA, V building, II floor
  • (+374 12) 52 59 56, int. 2-34
  • [email protected]

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry is the only faculty in the republic that trains specialists with higher education in the fields of veterinary medicine, veterinary sanitary expertise and animal husbandry, which has also become a center of various scientific researches in these fields.

The faculty positively changes its role: implements various international programs aimed at education reforms, training famous, understandable and competitive specialists in the field of labor market and science. In order to organize and conduct training at a proper level, most of the chairs are equipped with modern equipment, practical training is conducted in veterinary clinics, slaughteries, city markets, livestock farms and other professionally oriented places. Students of three specialties participate in artificial insemination courses and receive the qualification of “Artificial insemination operator”.

All hands-on trainings are held in the largest food processing factories in the country, management structures, such as: Food Safety Inspection Authority, Ministry of Economy, National Association of Veterinarians, CARD, veterinary clinics and farms, zoo, Wildlife and Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund, food inspection laboratories, etc.

Currently, the experimental farm of Balahovit is being reconstructed, where we will have a SMART farm, which will give students the opportunity to supplement their theoretical knowledge with experimental training. With the support of the government, as well as local and foreign partners, we have started the work of creating powerful modern infrastructures, which will equally serve the goals of education and the development of the field in the country. The foundation of the Veterinary Educational Excellence Center was completed in one of the buildings of the faculty. The main goal of the program is to create a The Veterinary Educational Excellence Center, which will contribute to capacity creating for the implementation of research-oriented education, the creation and strengthening of education-research and university-labor market connections.
With the establishment of the Center of Excellence, a new method of veterinary medical education – simulation training, and a new approach – bioethical education, will be introduced into the educational system of ANAU. The Center of Veterinary Educational Excellence will consist of three main departments: modern veterinary simulation department, a veterinary clinic and classrooms.
By creating such a center of excellence, it will be possible to train competitive personnel, implement scientific programs, provide educational services to farmers and practicing veterinarians. It will allow to develop students’ practical skills and reduce errors during professional activities.

The target groups of the presented program are: students of relevant specialties of the faculty and college, teaching staff, master’s students, post-graduate students, researchers, farmers, veterinarians, food safety specialists, representatives of local institutions engaged in the research and prevention of animal diseases.

The newly created Educational Excellence Center of Veterinary will be a unique structure uniting the various centers and individual specialists involved in the field. As a result, the reconsidering of the problems of the field and the assessment of the implemented programs will get another qualitative level, as a result of which the cases of infectious diseases of animals will decrease, the control mechanisms of biological hazards will be improved, and the problem of providing the population with safe food will be solved as much as possible. It is planned to regularly organize special training courses for lecturers and employees of the center to invest international experience in this field and ensure the best results of the reforms. The presented program will create a center of excellence equipped with the latest veterinary clinical equipment, simulation dummy structures, e-learning programs and with skilled employees, which will have educational, research and consulting components of the activity.
Today, the faculty implements a number of programs to gain in-depth knowledge and professional experience through production internships abroad. Professional open classes, seminars, meetings with the best experts in the field are also organized. The faculty also actively participates in various sports, cultural, intellectual and other events organized by the student council, within which it has many achievements.

The guarantee of stable work and professional growth for every professional is continuous professional development. For this reason, short-term training courses are implemented in the faculty. The trainings are implemented in accordance with pre-prepared and approved plans and schedules. The programs aim to contribute to the development of professional education and advisory services in the field of agriculture, practically applying innovative approaches and creating a practical educational system in the fields of veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, food safety, in accordance with the requirements of the modern market, and providing advisory services to farmers.
The veterinary clinical laboratory operates adjacent to the faculty, which actively participates in the full implementation of production practices of students studying in the college in bachelor and master’s program, both in the departments of full-time and part-time studies. It is also important that the scientists of all the chairs of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry implement more intensive work in the direction of training of production workers, organization of consultations and contribute to the implementation of the latest achievements of science in production, thereby ensuring the continuity of education.

Graduates of the faculty go to work in a number of state and non-state organizations and enterprises of the republic: markets, milk factories, meat factories, laboratories, farms of different communities of the republic, customs services, border guard troops, a number of security and internal affairs units, as well as relevant ministries. Since 2019 February, Arevik Abovyan, candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor, has been the dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry.

Operations assistant

Lusine Babayan

(+374 91) 751011, int. 2-34
[email protected]

PROFESSIONS

Zoology and Biotechnology
Veterinary Sanitary Expertise

Contacts

  • 19 Koryun Str., 0009 Yerevan, RA, V building, II floor
  • (+374 12) 52 59 56, int. 2-34
  • [email protected]

History of the Faculty

On 1928, June 28 according to the resolution of Transcaucasia Country Committee Transcaucasian Veterinary Medicine Institute was founded. On September 18 Boris Masino was appointed as the first director of the University. On November 8, 1928, solemn opening of the Institute was held. At the opening Central Committee Leaders were present (A. Khanjyan, A. Mravyan, S. Kasyan, and others). The faculty of veterinary medicine of the Institute was headed and established by professor B. Mikhalkov. In 1930 Transcaucasian Veterinary Medicine Institute was founded in Yerevan. On 1931, October 25 a resolution about establishing Yerevan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Institute was made.
In 1994 Armenian Agricultural Institute and Yerevan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Institute were unified, and the faculty was renamed into The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in 2013 two faculties were unified and in result the faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry was created.
At the Faculty formation of the European Higher Educational Area is being formed, students’ free mobility and alumni competitiveness ensuring in labor market are being organized.
In frameworks of Tempus and Erasmus Mundus projects curriculum, subject programs were reviewed. The educational state criteria and curricula have been renovated.
Students take part in courses of artificial insemination and receive qualification of “Operator of Artificial Insemination”.
High-quality lecturers train the best specialists of tomorrow. The faculty has all necessary technical devices and materials, labs, teaching experimental farms to prepare high-quality specialists.
Now the faculty is going through a heated period of educational and scientific reforms, which are abundant in hardships and efforts are required to overcome different obstacles. Carrying out different projects, including such international projects as “Tempus Tasis”, “Erasmus Mundus”, will grant a possibility to reach the desired goal.