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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Brief historical review<\/span><\/i><\/div>

The creation of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was published in the Official Bulletin of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (BOC)<\/a> on October 17, 1986, depending at that time on the University of La Laguna<\/a>.<\/p>

Initially, the study plan for the Veterinary Degree, valid until the year 2000, was published in the BOE on September 30, 1991<\/a>. Subsequently, the study plan was modified and published in the BOE on January 20, 2000<\/a>. In the 2010\/11 academic year, the Degree in Veterinary Medicine was launched (published in the BOE on October 3, 2011<\/a>). Since the 2010\/11 academic year, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine has also taught the Master's Degree in Veterinary Clinic and Therapeutic Research (published in the BOE on March 31, 2012<\/a>).<\/p>

As it is a profession regulated at a European level (initially Directive 78\/1027\/EEC<\/a> and modified by the Directive 2005\/36\/EU<\/a>) the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, as a member of the European Association of Veterinary Education Establishments (EAEVE) <\/a>is subject to periodic evaluations in order to ensure that the teaching complies with the provisions of the European Directive. Thus, after a first evaluation in the year 2000, the positive evaluation by the EAEVE initially took place in the year 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Quality politics<\/span><\/i><\/div>

The launch of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the beginning of 1987 was a response to the need to provide our autonomous community with a university center that would facilitate the comprehensive training of future veterinarians. Initially integrated as a center belonging to the University of La Laguna, it became part of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in September 1989, after the creation of this University. The initial headquarters of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was located in the Z\u00e1rate neighborhood of the capital for, from the end of the 90s of the century
past, settling in the Cardones Campus, located in the municipality of Arucas.<\/p>

The European Association of Veterinary Education Establishments (EAEVE) has as its
The basic objective is to establish sufficient and uniform levels of teaching quality in the centers that teach Veterinary education, in accordance with the requirements established in the European directive regulating Veterinary studies (Directive 1978\/1027 EEC, currently replaced by Directive 2005\/ 36 EU). The EAEVE, to ensure this homogeneity of the teachings, as well as of the competences and abilities that the graduates must present, carries out periodic evaluation processes, which have currently been defined every 6 years. In this evaluation process, minimum but demanding standards are defined regarding the requirements and nature of the teaching that must be developed, addressing both teaching, research, administrative and management aspects. After the re-evaluation process of our center, which ended in June 2021, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Las Palmas has acquired the status of an accredited center, fully joining the group of European Veterinary Faculties with a positive evaluation, maintaining this status until 2026. year that will be submitted to a new evaluation process.<\/p>

Although this objective has been achieved, this positive evaluation should only be one more objective within a much more ambitious project, in order to establish a Faculty that far exceeds all the recommendations and ratios that the evaluation procedure demands of us, which is just try one more merit. This evaluation procedure, already fully integrated, allows our center to become familiar with the monitoring and control protocols, making it evident to extend and strengthen that culture of effort, quality and excellence towards all the processes specified in the Quality Assurance System of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>

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<\/i><\/span><\/i><\/span>Mission<\/span><\/i><\/div>

Currently, there are 9 public Veterinary Faculties in our country, while another 4
Private universities teach the Veterinary Degree in the national territory. The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the only university center that offers the Degree in Veterinary Medicine in our University community, with a high demand that quadruples the places offered each year.<\/p>

The ULPGC Faculty of Veterinary Medicine must have as its fundamental axis the training of professionals who adequately respond to the demands of society. In this way, our center is responsible for the training of those professionals who are going to carry out their activity in the sectors of medicine and animal health, sanitary control and the production of animals in livestock, farms and fish farms. Another function of basic importance is the hygiene and inspection of food of animal origin as well as the agri-food sector. We cannot ignore our insular reality and the importance of the marine environment, in matters basically related to animal health. The need to train veterinarians to carry out their tasks in animal recovery and protection centers, farm-schools and zoos are also among our obligations, gaining even more strength with the recent approval of the Law for the Protection of the Rights and Well-being of animals (Law 7\/2023, March 28, 2023). Finally, specialized postgraduate training must be guaranteed, as well as providing quality services to Canarian society, through the offer of assistance services that must be cutting-edge and of public utility.<\/p>

The basic axis of its general policy for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is the regulated organization of teaching, sufficiently establishing the teaching-learning and administrative processes, managing the necessary and sufficient resources to ensure adequate levels of teaching and research, as is included in the Quality Assurance System (SGC). For this, it will act:<\/p>