Code and classification of the field of education: 6B09 Veterinary

Code and classification of training areas: 6B091 Veterinary

Code in the International Standard Classification of Education: 0941

Qualifications: bachelor / specialist 6B09 Veterinary

Awarded degree: Bachelor of Veterinary Science 6В092 - "Food safety"

The purpose of the educational program:  The educational program “Food safety” on the specialty 6B092 - Food safety was developed due to changes in the legal framework of the veterinary service, in accordance with the requirements of the Eurasian Economic Union and the World Trade Organization, as well as recommendations of employers (leading state veterinary organizations and private-entrepreneurial veterinary services). The main goal of the educational program is to study the issues of ensuring biological and food safety, which are currently the most relevant. In this regard, the content of the modular educational program is aimed at obtaining knowledge and practical skills for carrying out veterinary and sanitary examination of animal products in the conditions of the Eurasian Economic Union and the WTO, as well as in accordance with the requirements and recommendations of international veterinary organizations (OIE, FAO, WHO and others).

General characteristics of the educational program: The “Food Safety” educational program was compiled in accordance with the National Qualifications Framework and professional standards, coordinated with the Dublin descriptors and the European Qualifications Framework. The educational program contains theoretical training, including the study of cycles of general education, basic and major subjects; additional types of training, professional practice, physical education, etc. The volume of the educational program is 300 credits, including 240 credits of theoretical training, 28 credits of professional practice, 8 credits of physical culture and 12 credits of writing the thesis, 12 credits of final certification.

The relevance of the developed educational program (OP) is harmonized with the requirements of the typical curriculum and competencies of the first day graduate (specialist in veterinary medicine) by the World Health Organization and FAO, which provides the possibility of integrating the EP into the international veterinary educational space.

The peculiarity of the developed EP is the coordination of 60-70 with educational work programs with leading world universities in the field of veterinary education (Liebig University of California, Davis University of California, Toulouse National Veterinary school), which will contribute to the professional mobility of students.

Spheres of the professional activity

• veterinary laboratories (food safety departments);
• veterinary and sanitary laboratories for food markets;
• laboratories own production control enterprises of meat and dairy industry;
• enterprise for the production, processing, storage, sale of food and animal feed;
• institutions of the state veterinary service, in veterinary posts at the border and transport, at checkpoints;
• enterprises for the manufacture and control of biological products and biologically active substances, veterinary pharmacies;
• scientific research institutes, state and private veterinary organizations;
• slaughterhouses, vehicles for the transport of animals, premises for keeping animals.
• all types of economic entities of agricultural production.

Types of professional activity

Types of professional activity are:

• production and technology;
• organizational and managerial;
• experimental research;
• scientific-research;
• project;
• educational;
• military veterinary service.

General educational competencies:

1) to at shaping the ideological, civil and moral positions of the future specialist, competitive based on ownership of information and communication technologies, building communication programs in the state, Russian and foreign languages, focusing on a healthy lifestyle and professional success;

2) to form a system of general competencies that ensure the socio-cultural development of the personality of a future specialist based on the formation of his ideological, civic and moral positions;

3) to develop the ability to interpersonal social and professional communication in the state, Russian and foreign languages;

4) to form self-development skills and education throughout life;

5) to form a personal capability in the modern world, critical thinking and physical self-improvement.