Veterinary medicine is a multidimensional profession requiring knowledge and skills about animal health in particular, as well as animal breeding, husbandry, animal-originated food, environmental health, production of feed stuff, and production of biological materials.
Education at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is five years and given as a single program. Since 2003-2004 academic year, one year of preparatory English class is obligatory. Since 2011-2012, 30% of the curriculum is given in English.
In our faculty, in the 2001-2002 academic year, the credit education system has been switched to the credit education system as of the 1st grade, and the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) education system since the 2014-2015 academic year. With the credit education system, students were provided with the opportunity to choose more courses, as well as vocational education, social and cultural courses were also provided, and it was aimed to prepare them for life after being a student.Education at the Faculty aims to train students who have more information on certain topics as dictated by the World Veterinary Association and who can use information technologies effectively. During the first four years, students are trained for common obligatory subjects in veterinary medicine, and in the autumn semester of the fifth year, they choose one of the modules on;
- Farm Animal Medicine
- Companion Animal Medicine
- Poultry Medicine
- Food Hygiene and Technology.
The students get theoretical and practical training in their selected modules during the 9th semester. Tenth semester is composed of only practices and the student also has to prepare a graduation thesis and present it.

Veterinary Surgeon

Second Cycle

The candidates have to successfully graduate from high school and get sufficient points from the centrally organized Student Selection Examination.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

ECTS credits of elective courses and at least 30 ECTS credits, including supervised study, are required. In the IX. Semester, 13 ECTS credits are required, as well as at least 9 ECTS from their own group and 8 ECTS from other groups, and at least 30 ECTS credits in this semester. In addition to completing credit courses, the student must successfully complete clinical duties, in-house and external internships, seminars and graduation thesis in order to graduate.

Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; To carry out the obligation of research and service to society at universal standards, to reach information, to produce, apply and disseminate information for animal existence, health, rights and productivity, the quality and safety of animal products, the development of the relationship between human and animal health and environmental safety, which are indispensable elements of humanity and nature. It aims to train patriotic veterinarians who have adopted Atatürk´s principles and revolutions.

1. He/she has basic and sufficient knowledge in every aspect of veterinary medicine and can use this knowledge efficiently.
2. He/she performs his/her profession considering professional and ethical issues as well as animal rights.
3. He/she has sufficient knowledge and skills in clinical and laboratory level for proper diagnosis and he/she can evaluate data.
4. He/she, with his/her knowledge and skills, can create solutions and practices proper treatment methods.
5. He/she knows and practices the basics of preventive medicine for individual and herd health.
6. He/she has sufficient knowledge and skills about the principles of animal breeding, husbandry and nutrition.
7. He/she has sufficient knowledge and skills about public health and farm-to-fork food safey and technology.
8. He/she knows the laws and legislations about veterinary medicine and can analyze professional problems from various aspects.
9. He/she can communicate successfully with his/her peers, members of other professions, animal owners, and employers.
10. He/she can express himself/herself both orally and in written and is good in foreign languages and information technologies.
11. He/she gains the ability to investigate, learn and practice individually and accepts life-long learning as a principle.
12. He/she is literate and is informed and responsible about the social and economic structure of the country.

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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples

1. Practicing clinician 2. Private animal hospitals and policlinics 3. Companies importing veterinary biological products 4. Companies producing and importing human and veterinary drugs 5. Companies trading human and veterinary drugs and vaccines 6. Companies for pest control 7. Companies producing and selling instruments and equipments related to veterinary medicine and animal breeding 8. Organizations involved in control and certification of organic agriculture 9. Companies breeding and selling broodstock animals 10. Food production premises; plants for poultry and beef; slaughterhouses, cold storages 11. Private food control laboratories 12. Minced meat sale units 13. Aquaproducts production plants 14. Wholesale and retail sale units of aquaproducts 15. Feed production companies 16. Embryo and sperm production centers 17. Poultry broodstock enterprises and hatcheries 18. Raw hide purchasers 19. Sale units, housings and training centers of pet and exotic animals 20. Bee production centers

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Access to Further Studies

Candidates who have successfully completed their education at the master´s level can study in postgraduate doctorate programs provided that they have a valid grade from the ALES exam and have sufficient foreign language knowledge.

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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Each student must register for classes at the beginning of the term. In order to be able to take the final exam, he / she must have attended at least 70% of the theoretical courses and at least 80% of the practices. In courses with 2 ECTS credits and above, they are subjected to a short news exam, midterm and final exam. There is no requirement for an exam with short notice for 1 ECTS credit courses. The contribution of midterm or midterm exams and quiz exams to the success grade is 40% in total and the contribution of the final exam is 60%. All exams are evaluated over 100 points. There is a requirement to get at least 55 points from the final exam. Students who get AA, BA, BB, CB and CC letter grades from a course are considered successful from that course. DC and DD grades are conditionally successful grades.

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Graduation Requirements

Total graduation ECTS credits must be 300 to successfully complete the program. His GANO must be at least 2.0 out of 4.00, he must successfully complete his internship, internship training and graduation thesis.

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Mode of Study

Full-Time/Part-Time

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Address and Contact Details

Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir KESKİN
Bursa UÜ Veteriner Fakültesi
Doğum ve Jinekoloji AD
Görükle/Bursa
Tel: +90 224.294 0826
e-posta: kadirk@uludag.edu.tr

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Facilities

The Faculty is composed of five divisions:
- Basic Sciences
- Preclinical Sciences
- Clinical Sciences
- Food Hygiene and Technology
- Zootechnics and Animal Nutrition
In total, there are 20 departments, 85 senior academic staff, 20 residents (performing also PhD), and 24 PhD students.
Physical capacity of the Faculty is as follows:
1. Student Complex and Deanship Building: 5451 m2 closed area.
- Lecture halls with 120 (5), 80 (2), 40 (2) and 25 (1) student capacities
- Five practice laboratories with 50 student capacity each.
- 106 m2 computer unit with 20 computers
- 142 m2 library
2. Block A: 5000 m2 closed area
- 1 meeting hall
- 2 seminar rooms with 25 and 35 persons capacity
- 2 lecture halls with 25 students capacity
- Laboratories and rooms for faculty of 14 departments.
3. Anatomy Dissection Hall: 450 m2 closed area
4. Clinical Sciences Training Building and Animal Health Research and Practice Hospital
- In the ground floor of the building, the hospital is active with 4800 m2 closed area with sections of
o Companion Animal Clinic
o Horse Clinic
o Farm Animal Clinic
o Hospitalisation Unit
o Necropsy Hall
o Lecture halls with 120 (1), 85 (1) and 35 (1) student capacities and laboratories
- On the first and second floors of the building (2700 m2 closed area) laboratories, rooms for faculty, and meeting rooms of 6 departments are located.
5. Animal Health and Animal Production Research and Practice Center: 7400 m2 closed area, 12000 m2 open field and 500 decares of cultivated land.

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Curriculum