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The Faculty of Veterinary Science is a faculty of the University of Pretoria.Founded in 1920, it is the second oldest veterinary faculty in Africa. [4] With the exception of the faculties in Khartoum (Sudan, 1938), and Cairo (Egypt, 1946), all the other African faculties were established after 1960.
In 1999, the only two veterinary science faculties in the country, those of the University of Pretoria and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, formerly Medunsa, were amalgamated. The university's Onderstepoort campus once again housed the only veterinary faculty in South Africa.
Veterinary nurses (VNs) in South Africa attend a two-year program at the Onderstepoort campus of the University of Pretoria culminating in a diploma in veterinary nursing [DipVetNurs or DVN (previously Diploma Curing Animals or Dip.Cur.Anim.)] [1] and unlike lay staff are trained to do everything except clinical consultations and surgery subject to the Para-Veterinary Profession's Act. [2]
Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science, founded by Sir Arnold Theiler, is also situated here. The institute is known for tropical disease research, and the veterinary faculty has strong ties with the Royal College of Veterinary Science in the United Kingdom .
Argilla was born in South Africa, and grew up in Durban; she always wanted to be a bird veterinarian. [1] [2] She failed to get a place to study veterinary medicine at the University of Pretoria, so took a degree in animal and wildlife science. [1]
Jotello Festiri Soga (1865 – 6 December 1906) was South Africa's first black veterinary surgeon [1] who played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest. [2] The library at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria is named for him.
Verstraete developed a teaching program in veterinary dentistry and oral surgery first at the University of Pretoria and then at the University of California – Davis. [1] He further developed a residency program, where he trained residents to become AVDC and EVDC Diplomates.
A Veterinary Science graduate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 1958, Jenkins was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1970. [5] [3] He has delivered more than 200 lecturers and addresses in the USA and internationally, written more than 60 scientific articles and is the co-author of a textbook on veterinary ...