Republic of Latvia
Cabinet of Ministers
Regulations No. 67
Riga, February 19, 2002
Minimum training requirements for acquisition of professional qualifications in
veterinary surgery and institutions, which directly control acquisition of
practical education in the profession of veterinary surgery
(rec. No.8, paragraph 2)
Issued in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 2, Article 26, Part I and Article 27,
Part V of the Law on Regulated Professions and Recognition of Professional
Qualifications
1. Regulation provides minimum requirements for study programmes in
acquisition of professional qualifications in veterinary surgery and institutions,
which directly control acquisition of practical education in the profession of
veterinary surgery.
2. Veterinary surgery study programmes must provide that the person concerned
has acquired adequate theoretical and practical knowledge of:
2.1. the sciences on which the activities of the veterinary surgeon are based;
2.2. the structure, physiology and functions of healthy animals, of their breeding,
husbandry, reproduction and hygiene in general as well as their feeding,
including the technology involved in the manufacture and preservation of
foods corresponding to their needs;
2.3. the behaviour and protection of animals;
2.4. the causes, nature, diagnosis and treatment of the diseases (individual and in
groups) of animals, including special knowledge of the diseases which may be
transmitted to humans;
2.5. preventive veterinary medicine;
2.6. the hygiene and technology involved in the production, manufacture and
putting into circulation foodstuffs of animal origin intended for human
consumption;
2.7. the laws, regulating the subjects mentioned in subparagraphs 2.1., 2.2., 2.3.,
2.4., 2.5. and 2.6.;
2.8. adequate clinical and other practical experience under supervision of qualified
specialists.
3. Study programmes for the acquisition of diploma in veterinary surgery shall
include a minimum of study subjects (courses). Some subjects (courses) may
be taught in the context of other subjects (courses) or in conjunction with other
subjects (courses). The minimum of subjects (courses) is the following:
3.1. basic subjects:
3.1.1. physics;
3.1.2. chemistry;
3.1.3. animal biology;
3.1.4. plant biology;
3.1.5. biomathematics;
3.2. specific subjects, basic sciences:
3.2.1. anatomy;
3.2.2. physiology;
3.2.3. bio-chemistry;
3.2.4. genetics;
3.2.5. pharmacology;
3.2.6. pharmacy;
3.2.7. toxicology;
3.2.8. microbiology;
3.2.9. immunology;
3.2.10. epidemiology and epizootology;
3.2.11. professional ethics;
3.2.12. cytology, histology and embryology;
3.3. special subjects, clinical sciences
3.3.1. obstetrics;
3.3.2. pathology (including pathological anatomy);
3.3.3. parasitology and invasion diseases;
3.3.4. clinical medicine and surgery (including anaesthetics);
3.3.5. clinical lectures on the various domestic animals, poultry and other animal
species;
3.3.6. preventive medicine;
3.3.7. radiology;
3.3.8. reproduction and reproductive disorders;
3.3.9. veterinary state medicine and public health;
3.3.10. organisation of veterinary medicine (veterinary state medicine and public
health, veterinary legislation and forensic medicine);
3.3.11. therapeutics;
3.3.12. clinical and laboratory diagnostics (propaedeutics);
3.3.13. contagious diseases;
3.3.14. heard health;
3.4. animal production:
3.4.1. animal production;
3.4.2. animal nutrition;
3.4.3. agronomy;
3.4.4. economic theory;
3.4.5. animal husbandry;
3.4.6. veterinary and environmental hygiene;
3.4.7. animal ethology and protection
3.5. food hygiene:
3.5.1. inspection and control of food and
3.5.2. basics of food technology (food infection and toxicology);
3.5.3. practical work (including practical work in places where slaughtering and
food processing takes place)
4. Institutions, which directly controls acquisition of practical education in the
profession of veterinary surgery, is Latvian Agricultural University.
Prime Minister
A. Bērziņš
In the name of the Minister of Education and ScienceMinister of Justice
I. Labucka