The struggle toward a unified Europe in the area of veterinary medical education]

The recent years have been conspicuous by an unusually dynamic arrangement of political, social and economic relations among all European countries. Scientific community of nations on our continent concerns also our discipline-veterinary medicine-giving numerous examples of common aims, beginning from the 1st Veterinary Congress in 1863, Hamburg. The present changes occurring in Europe give priority to individual scientific, professional and productive integration also in our veterinary science and practice. It must be said, too, that international exchange of goods stimulates not only their standardization as for production conditions and assessment methods, but also the level of consciousness and objective knowledge of the parties warranting the quality of the product. This concerns particularly the food products as for which the parties interested take into account the technical and sanitary norms concerning the products at all stages of their production. Hence the tendency to unification of veterinary studies in all Europe has been approved by all four facilities in Poland. Accession of our faculties to the European Association of Veterinary Medicine Faculties direct by Prof. TOMA, as well as of Czechoslovak and Hungarian faculties, is a clear example of these countries being ready to integration. Similarly, the resolutions of the Association concerning standardization of diplomas and professional specializations of veterinary surgeons in European Community would inspire the veterinary education centres to comparing and following unified organization and programmes of studies.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)