65th anniversary of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Guests from Poland and abroad were also able to attend Professor Norbert Pospieszny’s lecture on the development of faculty studies as well as Professor Bernd Hoffman’s lecture on the challenges and needs of veterinary education.

In addition, there was a fifteen-minute film about the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and a special big band performance directed by Professor Aleksander Mazur from the Academy of Music in Wrocław.

Professor Roman Kołacz awarded former Rectors: Prof. Tadeusz Garbuliński, Prof. Ryszard Badura and Prof. Michał Mazurkiewicz with “roses without thorns”. These were glass figurines prepared by Prof. Zbigniew Horbowy from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. The awards were given in recognition of their outstanding vision and development of the University.

In celebration of his 90th birthday, Professor Tadeusz Garbuliński received a Merit Medal of the City of Wrocław. This was awarded by the President of Wrocław Rafał Dutkiewicz and was granted at the request of the City Council. This award was given in recognition of Professor Garbuliński’s considerable services to Wrocław, and was presented by Dr. Jacek Ossowski – President of the Council.

Many people at the ceremony were awarded with departmental medals, awards and distinctions. The Jubilee celebrations were held under the patronage of Professor Barbara Kudrycka – Minister of Science and Higher Education.

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine formally began offering courses on 1 November 1945 as one of the faculties of Wrocław University and the University of Technology in Wrocław. There were 18 departments at that time and classes for its 15 students began on 21 November 1945. The Wrocław Department comes from the Lwow academic environment, primarily the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Lwow. The first Dean and founder of Wrocław Veterinary Medicine was Professor Zygmunt Markowski. In 1951 the faculty was merged into the newly formed Higher Agricultural School in Wrocław as the Veterinary Faculty, and its former title (The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) was restored in 1989.

Wrocław Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, as one of four such Faculties in Poland, has the right to grant the title of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and academic degrees of PhD and habilitation. The process of education is in accordance with international standards of the ‘Bologna Process’. Currently, the program includes 1350 full and part-time students (including an English Division) and 52 students are enrolled in its Doctoral program. The Faculty is a member of European Association of Establishments of Veterinary Education – EAEVE, which is a branch of Federation of Veterinarians of Europe – FVE.

There are different specialization departments in the Faculty covering fields such as veterinarian surgery, diseases of poultry and exotic birds, diseases of dogs and cats, epizootiology and veterinary administration, food hygiene and consumer health, animal reproduction, veterinary lab diagnostics, radiology and diseases of insects.

A new scientific and industrial consortium has been established in order to focus scientific research in concert with other outstanding scientific, research and industrial units in Poland. The effective and efficient cooperation between the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine has led to the creation of the Confederation of Faculties of Veterinary Medicine in Poland. The latest initiative of the Faculty was the grand opening of its Wild Animals Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Złotówek.