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About Faculty 

Acting Dean – Candidate of Veterinary Sciences, Associate Professor Olesya Tsymerman

Deputy Deans:

1. Candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Vikulina Galina – Deputy Dean for Educational and Scientific Work
2. Сandidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Sinyagovska Kateryna – Deputy Dean for Educational and Scientific Work
3. Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, associate professor Shchepetilnikov Yury – Deputy Dean for for Disciplinary Work

Departments:

1. Internal animal diseases and clinical diagnosis – head of the department, candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Matsenko Olena Viktorivna
2. Veterinary surgery and reproductive medicine – head of the department, doctor of veterinary sciences, professor Dmytro Viktorovych Slyusarenko
3. Epizootology and microbiology – head of the department, candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Severyn Raisa Vasylivna
4. Normal and pathological morphology – head of the department, candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Olena Viktorivna Birka
5. Pharmacology and parasitology – head of the department, candidate of veterinary sciences, associate professor Olga Vasylivna Nikiforova
6. Veterinary sanitation, hygiene and forensic veterinary medicine – head of the department, doctor of legal sciences, associate professor Olena Volodymyrivna Pavlichenko
7. Physiology and biochemistry of animals – head of the department, candidate of biological sciences, associate professor Olga Mykolaivna Denisova

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the State University of Biotechnology is one of the oldest faculties of veterinary medicine in Ukraine. The history of the faculty begins in 1851, which at that time was part of the Kharkiv Veterinary School. Currently, it is one of the leading faculties that trains highly qualified doctors of veterinary medicine.

About 90 scientific and pedagogical workers (2 of them academicians, corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12 doctors of sciences, professors, 65 candidates of sciences, associate professors, etc.) carry out educational and scientific work at the faculty. Scientific and pedagogical workers involved in the implementation of the following educational programs: “Veterinary medicine”, “Veterinary and sanitary examination, quality and safety of livestock products”.

The training of doctors of veterinary medicine is carried out exclusively in the full-time form of education at the second educational and qualification level “master”. The faculty also has the opportunity to study at the third educational and scientific level “Doctor of Philosophy”. The faculty trains specialists on a budgetary and contractual basis. Admission is possible on the basis of complete general secondary education (term of study 5 years and 10 months), on the basis of the educational level “junior bachelor” (4 years and 10 months), on the basis of the educational levels “bachelor” and “specialist” in related specialties (1 year and 4 months), based on the first higher education (4 years and 10 months).

Currently, about 800 students study at the faculty, including about 50 foreign students (state and English language of instruction).

Students of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine study disciplines of general and professional training, 25% of which are chosen independently within their own educational trajectory. Practical training of students is carried out within educational (within the educational institution) and industrial (outside the educational institution) practices. Guest lectures by leading specialists in the field of veterinary medicine are common practice.

Faculty graduates successfully work both within the country and abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Poland, Israel, Morocco and other countries).

Graduates who received the master’s degree have the right to work as chief doctors of veterinary medicine, heads of hospitals (clinics) or departments of veterinary medicine, doctors of veterinary medicine at meat and milk processing enterprises, in clinics, in particular for a narrow specialization – orthopedist, surgeon , ophthalmologist, exotologist, reproductive specialist, etc., at agricultural enterprises (farms, complexes, poultry farms, etc.), at pharmaceutical enterprises and in veterinary pharmacies, in laboratories of various forms of ownership, to open their own veterinary business, to be scientific employees in educational and scientific institutions, etc.

The faculty prepares students for the master’s level on the basis of complete general secondary education (term of study 5 years and 10 months), on the basis of the degree “junior bachelor” (term of study 4 years and 10 months), on the basis of the first higher education (term of study 4 years and 10 months) and on the basis of the degree “bachelor or specialist” (term of study 1 year and 4 months).

• 1 year (on the basis of general secondary education)
• 2 year (on the basis of junior bachelor)
• 2-3 year (on the basis of general secondary education)
• 4 year (on the basis of general secondary education)
• 6 year (on the basis of general secondary education)