Case Study Of UPCVM

At present, the University of the Philippines College of Veterinary Medicine is the best Veterinary Medicine school in the Philippines because it offers a comprehensive and holistic curriculum, it has been producing prominent graduates and a roster of faculty who are specialists in their own fields, and it is a trendsetter in the local and international veterinary research, extension, and postgraduate studies.

UPCVM’s Curriculum UPCVM has become the best veterinary college in the Philippines because it offers the most comprehensive and holistic veterinary medicine curriculum of all veterinary colleges in the country. Being the first veterinary college in the country, it patterned its curriculum with that of the best veterinary colleges
It keeps a keen eye on fresh developments in veterinary medicine, especially pioneering discoveries, procedures and techniques that will enable their students to have the best knowledge that they can have. UPCVM has been offering a six-year DVM program that includes a two year preparatory veterinary curriculum from the College of Arts and Sciences, followed by a rigorous and extensive professional veterinary curriculum from the College of Veterinary Medicine. The preparatory veterinary curriculum is instituted to equip the students with 76 units of preparatory courses in communication, science, and socio-political knowledge. It also includes basic courses in philosophy, physics, information technology and botany, as well as advanced courses in chemistry, statistics and zoology. These courses are prerequisites in basic veterinary subjects and also in the National Veterinary Admission Test (NVAT), which is administered by CHED to regulate and standardize the entry of students to proper veterinary courses. The professional veterinary curriculum involves a wide range of courses, the first two years focuses on basic and paraclinical veterinary courses while the last two years concentrate on clinical
It may not have produced numerous mediocre graduates, but it surely has produced a few graduates with a broad veterinary knowledge and experience in various fields that exceeds expectations. UPCVM has performed excellently in the Veterinarian Licensure Examinations administered by the Veterinary Professional Board of the Professional Regulations Commission. UPCVM had an examinee passing rate of 93.10%, 92.16%, 94.29%, 87.80% and 97.78% during the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 veterinarian licensure examinations, respectively. (Callanta, 2015) (Callanta, 2014) (Callanta, 2013) (Policarpio, 2012) (Acorda, 2011) This is also one of the reasons why the prestige of being the country’s leading Center of Excellence in Veterinary Education has recently been conferred by the Commission on Higher Education to the University of the Philippines College of Veterinary Medicine. (Licuanan,