THE CONCEPT OF QUALITY IN VETERINARY EDUCATION AND THE QUALITY CULTURE DEVELOPMENT: A BRIEF REVIEW

Academic excellence for quality education: the concept has become a valuable tool in the ranking of educational institutions; for the effective evaluation of academic excellence, specialists use quantitative and qualitative parameters or objective and subjective indicators; academic excellence is more than just making good grades and demonstrated ability to perform, achieve, and/or excel in scholastic activities in both formal and informal education, academic excellence is the development of intellectual abilities and skills in service to humanity. Improving academic standards of quality education: academic standards are the benchmarks of quality and excellence in education; these standards identify what students should know and do in a given discipline/field, and serve as goals for student learning and assessment, and guide class instruction; academic standards are starting points of the curriculum development and quality of learning improvement. Applied learning in veterinary medicine quality education: the veterinary practice has several areas and students should benefit from a variety of learning methods to achieve all Day One Competencies. In this regard, the modern veterinary curricula integrate various methods of learning, as follows: problem-based or case-based learning, apprenticeship-based learning, collaborative / group-based learning, research-led based learning, evidence-based learning, and extramural / off-campus clinical rotations-based learning.