Veterinary Science Graduate Program (Animal Science and Veterinary Clinics)
Level: Master’s Degree in Veterinary Science
Mission:
Union, ethics and flexibility: Inspiring professionals for continuous improvement. Transforming knowledge in actions. Training professionals to be ethical and capable to promote regional and social development based on pioneering research.
Singularities:
Focus in general and regional challenges; multi-orientation; qualify professionals already inserted in the market; flexibility; partnerships.
Values:
Changing; mentoring; harmony; management; intelligence; respect; balance
Research area(by Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – CAPES – Brazil):
Veterinary Medicine (Animal Science and Veterinary Clinics)
Admission Requirements:
Professionals from biological, health and veterinary sciences.
About Us
Based on the principles of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – CAPES – Brazil, the research focus area of the Veterinary Science Graduate Program is Veterinary Medicine. The Program began its activities on January 19, 2007. Thenceforth, the Program has been officially recognized from CAPES and Homologated by Brazilian Ministry of Education ordinance #73, published in the Federal Official Gazette #14, section 1, page 22/24 on 1/19/2007).
The researches and training courses offered by the Program insure a differential scientific and didactic experience to our master’s graduate students. The main purpose of the Program is to provide mastery conceptual, methodological and scientific instruments in order to instigate professionals with notable critical sense and exceptional teaching skills. Just as importantly, our graduate students are prepared to develop research activities in both public and private sectors, besides to offer community services aiming to solve daily problems found in different areas of veterinary science.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
The University of Franca, under the terms of the PROSUP/CAPES/ UNIFRAN agreement, make available to the graduate student entering the Postgraduate Program in Veterinary Science, through classification in the selection process, CAPES/PROSUP scholarships or financial aid with full or partial dedication.
The number of scholarships or financial aid to be distributed each year varies according to their availability. The PROSUP-CAPES regulations, published with the CAPES Ordinance #181 of 12/18/2012, can be accessed on the CAPES website. Scholarships and Financial Aid have duration of twelve months and may be renewed.
Moreover, scholarships can also be offered by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Information on this type of scholarship is available on the website www.fapesp.br
Biological, health and veterinary sciences
The research lines of Master’s Degree Program in Veterinary Science, inserted in the Veterinary Medicine area, are strategically comprehensive and represent current scientific aspects. Our lines of research aim to attract young researchers with diversified skills acquired in different courses in the areas of biological, health and veterinary sciences, as well as training human resources with multidisciplinary grounding.
Requirements for degree completion:
To obtain the title of Master’s Degree in Veterinary Science, the graduate student will need to fulfill one hundred credits in the period of twenty-four months, being:
• Twenty-five credits in courses and/or complementary activities;
• Twenty-five credits related to approval in the Qualification Exam;
• Fifty credits related to approval in the Dissertation.
Credits
Each credit corresponds to fifteen hours of activity in courses (check the course details in “Courses Offerings”). Up to 25% of credits in disciplines can be obtained in others Programs at the University of Franca or in other programs recommended by CAPES, according to criteria defined by the internal Graduate Commission of the University of Franca.
Frequency and Use
The minimum average and frequency for approval in each course are respectively, seven (scale from zero to ten) and 75%.
In case of failure in a mandatory course, the graduate student must take it again until it is approved with a minimum grade of seven.
Failure in a non-mandatory course will not be considered in the grade school record and is not mandatory attending it for a second time.
Course Cancellation
The cancellation of one or more individualized courses will be allowed, since 25% of the activities foreseen for the respective course have not yet been completed, at the discretion of Graduate Commission of the University of Franca.
Registration in the Program
The graduate student must register in the program every six months, and thereafter for each courses in which they are completing requirements for the degree.
Program Enrollment
Exceptionally, it will be allowed to lock enrollment, provided that the graduate student has sufficient academic performance in all subjects of at least one semester of the course.
Deadlines
The Program must be concluded within 24 months, from the date of registration until the date of defense of the dissertation. Exceptionally, the Graduate Commission of the University of Franca may grant up to six months of extension of deadline for completion of post-graduation work.
Qualification Exam
After completing the credits and the research project, the student must request the Qualification Exam eighteen days in advance of the intended date for the Exam. The specific form (Qualification Request Form) must be filled by the student.
In case of failure, the candidate will be entitled to repeat, once again, the General Qualification Examination, within thirty days after notification of the failure.
Dissertation
The minimum term for the defense of the dissertation will be fifteen days, counted from the appointment of the Examining Board. After the defense, the graduate student must deliver the required number of corrected and bound volumes to the Secretariat of Graduate Affairs Office within thirty days.
The Secretariat of Graduate Affairs Office will be able to issue the Master’s Diploma, transcript and other documents after delivering the documents expressed in the previous paragraph.
For more information, please contact the Veterinary Science Graduate Program Office at (+55) 16-3711-8713 or via e-mail pgcienciaanimal@unifran.edu.br
Course Program
Introduction to ethics in research with humans and animals and biosafety. Concepts, origin and principles. Professional codes on ethics: rights, duties and sanctions. Research Ethics Committee. Research Integrity Committee. Animal Use Ethics Committee.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturer: Ewaldo de Mattos Junior
Norms and techniques of research, organization and information of data. Preparation of scientific transcripts, research projects, research dissemination. Norms for bibliographic references. Cultured norms in Portuguese. Writing and Style. Interpretation of texts, version, translation. Review, Abstracts, Descriptions. Dissertation and Thesis – mandatory and optional elements. Characterization of Seminar, Symposium, Congress and Conference.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Alessandra Marieli Vaccari, Jair Camargo Ferreira, Marcela Aldrovani Rodrigues and Rafael Paranhos de Mendonça
Provide graduate students with the necessary information to prepare their master’s thesis project, through the discussion of the different stages involved in it. In addition, it should consist of the presentation of individual seminars by students addressing topics related to their researches, prepared according to the current rules. The seminars will be presented in expository form, adapting to all the rules of a didactic presentation, evaluated by a panel composed of 3 teachers.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Daniel Paulino Junior, Fernanda Gosuen Gonçalves Dias and Maiza Ziviani
Presentation of the research project, the chronogram and partial results. The aim is to stimulate the continuous academic-scientific growth of graduate students, proposing improvements and alternatives that contribute to their development and strengthen the Program.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Alessandra Marieli Vacari, Cristiane dos Santos Honsho, Daniel Paulino Junior, Ewaldo de Mattos Junior and Fernanda Gosuen Gonçalves Dias.
Presentation of the research project, the chronogram and partial results. The aim is to stimulate the continuous academic-scientific growth of graduate students, proposing improvements and alternatives that contribute to their development and strengthen the Program.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Jair Camargo Ferreira, Marcela Aldrovani Rodrigues, Maricy Apparicio Ferreira, Leandro Zuccolotto Crivellenti, Rafael Paranhos de Medonça e Ricardo Andrade Furtado
Developing emotional intelligence in the workplace is critical to achieving success consistently. The companies are looking for calm, confident, determined, resilient professionals who know how to manage unforeseen events. Therefore, the discipline goal is to assist students to understand and manage their own emotions, as well as those of the people around them, meets the requirements of both the university and the business environment.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Alessandra Marieli Vacari and Jair Camargo Ferreira
Concept on Integrated Pest Management that involves knowledge about insect taxonomy, biology, ecology, behavior and interactions with plants, the identification of key pests and natural enemies, monitoring based on information on levels of control and the management of agro-ecosystems, prioritizing conditions for plant balance and natural pest control. Knowledge about agroecological systems and how to manage the pests in these systems aiming at the production of food with low impact on the environment and animals, and that are safe for health.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Alessandra Marieli Vacari
Covering the lack of information observed in the community and in the high school system and the tools and attitudes that graduate students can make available to help minimize them.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge
Lecturers: Cristiane dos Santos Honsho, Daniel Paulino Junior and Fernanda Gosuen Gonçalves Dias.
Reviewing the main aspects of the epidemiology and biology of parasites that cause zoonoses, as well as the importance, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of parasitic diseases of importance in public health. The evaluation will consist of presentation of seminars, participatory presence, reading and discussion of articles.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Rafael Paranhos de Mendonça
Basic design of experiments: replication, randomness and blocking; organization of the stages of an experiment; determination of univariate and multivariate statistical methods; actuarial methods; hypothesis tests, associations and correlations; analysis of variability of experimental units: intrinsic, controlled and experimental error.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Ricardo Andrade Furtado
Addressing the main aspects of the inflammatory process, as well as the in vitro and in vivo biological tests used to evaluate the anesthetic, pro and anti-inflammatory activities of promising natural or synthetic products.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Ricardo Andrade Furtado
Discipline offered in English focused on theoretical knowledge of the techniques for presenting papers in international scientific conclaves and the ability to communicate in the English language through the practice of presenting a scientific article as a simulation of participation in an international congress.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Leandro Zuccolotto Crivellenti and Ricardo Andrade Furtado.
Theoretical and practical aspects of the main tools used in the qualitative and quantitative microscopic descriptive and functional study of Metazoa tissues. Methods for fixing and routine processing of paraffin tissues will be covered; routine and special stains used for inspection and differentiation of cell types and extracellular components in tissues of animal origin; good practices in optical microscopy, step by step for Köhler illumination and observation of tissue components; capturing, digitizing and processing microscopic images; concepts about digital imaging under microscopy; fundamental processing of ImageJ® software and data extraction by segmentation and arithmetic and logical operations; planimetric and stereological measurements by “STEPanizer®”; rational use of images in scientific articles and preparation of boards.
Target audience: professionals from biological, health, agrarian and veterinary sciences.
Lecturers: Marcela Aldrovani Rodrigues.
Tips on how to write a scientific article in English in order to maximize the chances of acceptance for publication in international indexed journals.
Target audience: professionals from all areas of knowledge.
Lecturers: Jair Camargo Ferreira and Leandro Zuccolotto Crivellenti.
Aspects related to the principles of monitoring domestic species in critical conditions. Approach to the protocols used in the critical patient related to nutrition, analgesia and prognosis, in addition to discussion of interventionist therapy themes in different organ systems. Knowledge about cardiovascular anatomophysiology, compensatory mechanisms, main cardiovascular diseases, diagnostic approach (clinical and complementary) and therapy used in clinical and experimental routine. Basic to advanced knowledge on methods of collecting and interpreting tests related to renal function. Direct graduate students with methods of assessing the urinary system, as well as their use in routine and experimental evaluation.
Target audience: Veterinarians.
Lecturers: Daniel Paulino Junior, Ewaldo de Mattos Junior, Leandro Zuccolotto Crivellenti
The course will cover topics in ophthalmology, with the discussion of relevant works and innovative therapies. In dentistry, the main dental conditions in dogs and cats, forms of treatment, prevention and systemic repercussions in small animals will be addressed. In animal reproduction, the different biological processes of reproduction will be studied in a comparative way, focusing on domestic and wild mammals; reproductive management of domestic and wild species kept in captivity; behavioral and stress aspects and its influence on reproductive success.
Target audience: Veterinarians.
Lecturers: Cristiane dos Santos Honsho, Fernanda Gosuen Gonçalves Dias, Maricy Apparicio Ferreira
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