Educational work
Educational process at the department is based on conducting lectures, labs and practical classes, students' coursework and master's degree work, conferences, round tables, seminars, meetings with leading practitioners. In recent years, the priority tasks of scientific and pedagogical staff provides the training of specialists for master's programs, as well as retraining and advanced training of specialists in veterinary medicine.
Classes in classrooms, research laboratories and directly at farms are carried out by highly skilled specialists, associated professors and professors. Practical training of future specialists is carried out under production conditions during field studies at the university's educational and research facilities.
The scientific student society is functioning systematically, because a scientific student circle functioning at the department: "Parasitology and Tropical veterinary science". By October 2017 two separate circles ("Parasitology" and "Tropical veterinary and diseases of exotic and wild animals") functioned at the department, which today, according to the instruction on optimization of students' scientific circles, are united into one circle in which all interested students have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and carry out research work.
The results of this work will be further developed in the form of coursework and master's theses, as well as further study of the problem issue in the postgraduate study. Members of the Scientific Student Society conduct research on the scientific topics of the department, as well as on individual topics in Ukraine, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The results of their research students annually report on scientific conferences and seminars, publish in journals and collections of scientific works, as well as execute master's theses, which successfully protect the State Attestation Commission.
Professor Natalia Soroka with Master's students
Associate Professor Helen Semenko at training classes
Associate Professor Iryna Pashkevych with students at laboratory classes
For the students of degree "Bachelor" taught courses: "Medicinal Plants", "Veterinary Pharmacology", "Veterinary Toxicology".
For the students of degree "Master" taught courses: "Pharmacognosy", "Pharmaceutical Chemistry", "Toxicological Chemistry", "pharmacy", "Pharmaceutical Technology", "Clinical Pharmacology", "Clinical Pharmacy", "Pre-clinical and clinical studies of veterinary medicinal products".
The study of these subjects performed during lectures, laboratory work and individual work. At the disciplines of "Veterinary Toxicology", "Pharmacy" and "Pharmaceutical technology" students perform coursework.
The practical training of students is performed on the laboratory lessons, educational and manufacturing practice.
The educational practice at the discipline of "Medicinal Plants" implies the study of wild flora and cultivated medicinal plants. The base of practical training is Golosiivskyi forest, phyto center NULES and laboratory of the department.
The educational practice at the discipline of "Veterinary Pharmacology" involves the study of the making technology of galenicals, soft and liquid dosage forms, preparing of herbarium medicinal plants, familiarity with manufacturing activities of pharmaceutical companies.
The manufacturing (master) practice is performed according a program that carry out tasks on each discipline of the master program of "Veterinary Pharmacy". Location of manufacturing practices is pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical storehouse, veterinary pharmacies etc.
At the department performed continuing education of heads and chemists toxicologists of the chemical-toxicological departments of veterinary medicine laboratories and training of heads and worker of the pharmacy veterinary medicine according to educational and thematic programs.
