ESVCP Letter of Pre-Intent
The ESVCP Working Group (formed at the Perugia meeting to investigate establishing a specialty of Veterinary Clinical Pathology) drafted a letter to the EBVS indicating its remit and the ESVCP intention of establishing a vet speciality within Europe. This letter, copied below, was submitted in Nov 99 by JP, although he received no response. I just came across the July 2000 issue of the FVE newsletter and on pages 6 and 7 in the education section it describes successful application for formation of ECLAM, and then states the following...
"Applications were also received for the establishment of a College for Bovine Veterinarians and of one for Clinical Pathology. In both cases, the EBVS judged that this would create a major overlap with existing colleges." In both cases, the EBVS judged that this would create a major overlap with existing colleges."
European Board of Veterinary Specialization
c/o : Federation of Veterinarians in Europe
Rue Defacqz 1
B 1000 Bruxelles - Belgique
Re : Information about a tentative European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Dear Sir,
At its latest general assembly, Friday, October 15th, the ESVCP - European Society of Veterinary Clinical Pathology - has discussed the opportunity of creating a European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology in the aim of training veterinary graduates in this speciality, establishing standards for the qualification of specialists, furthering scientific progress in this field, etc.
Following discussions and majority agreement on the need to establish a European speciality on veterinary clinical pathology, a subcommittee was formed whose purpose is :
i) to investigate whether a European speciality of Veterinary Clinical Pathology should be formed as an independent College or as a subspeciality of an existing College;
ii) to define a plan and time-table for establishing the speciality;
iii) to report back to ESCVP when completed, and by next meeting at the latest
The first actions of this group will be :
i) to poll ESVCP members about their individual opinion concerning the creation of a College, its independent vs dependent status, etc.
ii) to collect information about the number of people mainly involved in Vet Clin Path in Europe with the curricula of those wishing to participate in the possible creation of a College
iii) to collect information about the number of professional positions available to specialists of Vet Clin Path in Europe.
The subcommittee for the establishment
of a European speciality
of Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Jean-Pierre Braun, Dr Vet, Dr Sc
Professor, Biochemistry-Biophysics, Dpt Sciences Biologiques et
Fonctionnelles & UMR Physiopathologie et Toxicologie Expérimentales,
Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, 23 Chemin des Capelles, 31076 Toulouse
Cedex 3, France
Phone : (+33) 561 19 38 44; Fax : (+33) 561 19 39 78; e-mail :
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