Author/Editor		Batis, J
Title		Kratek opis veterinarskega izobraževanja v Sloveniji
Translated title		Brief description of the veterinary education system in Slovenia
Type		članek
Source		Zb Vet Fak Univ Ljublj
Vol. and No.		Letnik 31, št. 1-2
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 9-18
Language		slo
Abstract		In the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, where the Slovenian territory belonged, infectious animal diseases were treated by physicians, who had finished a two-years course in veterinary medicine. From the year 1810 onwards however veterinary work had been done exclusively by graduated veterinarians. In the year 1795 the Chair of Veterinary Medicine was established at the Medico-Surgical Institute in Ljubljana. In 1850, just before the cancellation of the Medico-Surgical Institute, the Veterinary and Horseshoeing School in Ljubljana was founded. The aim of this school was to train veterinary assistents and horseshoers. This was the first vocational school with all the lessons given in Slovene. Veterinarians from Slovenia were educated in Vienna and other places where there were high schools of Veterinary Medicine, after World War I at the Veterinary Faculties in Zagreb and Belgrade. In the year 1926 the State Veterinary Institute for Bacteriology was founded in Ljubljana, with the task to organize professional meetings and courses for additional training of graduated veterinarians, besides the other obligation. After Word War II the Veterinary Institute of Slovenia was founded in Ljubljana in 1946, where also the staff for the future Veterinary Faculty was beeing trained and the newly-graduated veterinarians were given the opportunity to do their one-year internship. In 1948 two lower vocational Veterinary Schools for veterinary assistants were brought into being in Ljubljana and Kočevje. Both functioned only for a few years. The Secondary Veterinary School, too, founded in Ljubljana in 1947 was stopped in its activity four years later and a Four-Years School for live-stock breeders and veterinary technicians was founded instead. It was later transformed into the Secondary School for Food Production and Technology with the aim to train veterinary and food-processing technicians as well as educate for other professions connected with food-production and processing.(trunc.)
Descriptors		EDUCATION, VETERINARY SLOVENIA