From Farm to Fork toward One Health Veterinary Curriculum in Finland Iivonen, R., Laukkanen-Ninios, R. & Muhonen, A. ICAHIS 1 : Surveying Current One Health Initiatives Boston May Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen1

EU (the European Union) has taken initiatives to improve food safety assurance In spring 2013 horse meat was fraudulently presented as beef and consumers were grossly misled Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen Horse meat fraud

Basic degree structure is two-tier : Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (180 ECTS 3 years) and Licenciate of Veterinary Medicine (180 ECTS 3 years) Demands from the EU and Finnish legislation Aim: provide the students with competence for the veterinarian’s profession Day 1 Skills include not only the traditional veterinary tasks but also governmental duties: food hygiene in a large extent and also animal welfare Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen Veterinary curriculum (Finland)

Bachelor includes basic veterinary medicine Year 2: Meat inspection technique after pathology Year 3: Meat inspection, Meat inspection practice, Veterinarian as an officer, Epidemiology Licentiate includes applied studies Year 4: Herd health, production animal medicine Year 6: Food hygiene and food inspection Environmental hygiene and toxicology Health protection practice Veterinary health service and municipal administration Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen Curriculum details

More integration between basic veterinary sciences and applied content More emphasis on the animal welfare Division of Meat inspection training into two sections: Year 3 (meat inspection) and Year 5 (control at the slaughterhouse) Reorganization of Meat inspection technique and Meat inspection courses to be taught on 3rd and 4th year and more co-operation with studies in production animal health A new international textbook on Meat inspection and slaughterhouse control Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen Curriculum under construction

Other subjects integrated in the curriculum: IL Information Literacy, from the second school day until the deposition of the Licenciate Thesis Introduction to scientific work Veterinary ethics and animal welfare Embedded in all phases of the curriculum Viikki Campus Library / Raisa Iivonen Integration and innovation

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