Olivier FAUGERE DVM - Director National School for Veterinary Services - ENSV An example of collaboration between a veterinary education establishment, national veterinary services and veterinary associations
Ecole Nationale des Services Vétérinaires - ENSV 2 Overview Created in 1973 Lyon / France OIE collaborating Centre for the training of Official veterinarians (2004) Lyon «Joint venture» : - French government - Veterinary education (VetAgro Sup) Dedicated to Governance of Veterinary Public Health (food safety + animal health and welfare + impact on/of environment)
Who has to be trained? 3 OIE definition of veterinary services : Governmental and non-governmental organisations that implement animal health and welfare measures and other standards and recommendations of the OIE Codes in the territory Partnership between Public sector and private sector Good governance of veterinary services requires training of all components = public and private
In France Who s who? 4 Target-public of ENSV Trainings systematically organised in collaboration with concerned targets Veterinary laboratories? Agro-Food industry Ministry of Agriculture, Agro-food and Forestry General directorate for food 18 Regions 101 Departments Official veterinarians Civil servants = 900 Under contract = 300 Breeders organizations Veterinary private practitioners (mandate Holders)
Statutory training of civil servants 5 French veterinary civil servants Training at ENSV, during one year, before taking their first position. Allow compliance with international normative requirements : OIE, Codex Alimentarius, IPPC, and WTO (SPS)... and obviously EU regulation Avoid on the job training
Statutory training of civil servants 6 French pattern for the training of veterinary civil servants Continuous training Lifelong learning Statutory training Governance of veterinary public health Can be last year of vet. education Veterinary education : - Veterinary schools -5 years - Selection by competition - Preparatory class 2 years - Bachelor Civil servant Appointment Training one year Competitive recruitment : Before last year of vet. education or after a working experience Student
Statutory training of civil servants 7 Reinforcing basic scientific skills already acquired (technical items) Ensuring skills in public law / policies / administration Multi-disciplinary approach of public action for VPH No internal teachers, but large network of > 150 external trainers-lecturers civil servants from the ministry of agriculture (50%), academics and researchers (40%), private professionals (10%) (practitioners, quality managers...)
8 Statutory training of civil servants Technical and scientific inputs Food safety Animal disease control and animal welfare Economics Environmental sciences Law and public administration French & European International / Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement (SPS) Role and responsibility of the official veterinarian Public policies Risk management policy Food policy Environmental policy Human resources Project management Communication Work placement foreign VS French administration
Statutory training of civil servants 9 A curricula well balanced between lectures (35%) collective case studies (25%) : purpose-goal, identified funds, delay, deliverable study visit tour : OIE, FAO, OMS, WTO, UE Fr veterinary administration work placement (40%)
Continuous training of civil servants 10 No-one can know everything! Necessity of lifelong learning Method : Residential short term courses (3 to 5 days) Annual influx : 750 trainees / 50 sessions Technical, institutional and legal inputs Knowledge + specific professional skills : ability to carry out actions, capacity to adapt to new needs of veterinary services,
Continuous training of civil servants 11 Various items : Technical items, public policies and law in the scope of public vet. services activities Crisis management Disease outbreak investigation Food hygiene and controls Import and export control and certification Veterinary Medicinal products controls By-products controls Risks assessment Animal welfare
Training for veterinary private practitioners mandate holders 12 17 000 Veterinary private practitionners in France : 4 000 / 4 500 practice livestock medecine Most of them have a «public mandate» authorizing : the implementation of official prophylaxis, health monitoring of animal gathering, participation in official action on disease outbreaks, They are eyes and ears of administration for epidemiological monitoring They should be «wide-open» and well «connected»
Training for veterinary private practitioners mandate holders 13 Initial training : one week training course for veterinary students before delivering the mandate Co-organised with all french veterinary schools 8 sessions / year presentation of organization and stakeholders for governance of animal health situational exercises / role games
Training for veterinary private practitioners mandate holders 14 Continuous training : ½ or 1 day training course for professional vet. once every two years for each veterinarian Co-organised with veterinary technical professional organisation (SNGTV) A mixed training team : one private veterinarian/practitioner (technical topics) + one official veterinarian (administrative and legal matters) 150 sessions / year held across France, nearby veterinary offices 2 000 trainees / year
Training for veterinary private practitioners mandate holders 15 Goals of the continuous training : «prevention is better than cure» Updating knowledges for specific actions in VPH Raising awareness on VPH Collect information on difficulties met Strenghtening relationships between private veterinarians and administration Reinforcing the OIE notion of «veterinary services» among private veteriarian professionals
Training for veterinary private practitioners mandate holders 16 12 topics / year related with current sanitary issues and local sanitary contexts Veterinary medicinal products and public health Emerging and exotic major diseases Autopsy and samples in poultry Tuberculosis control : the role of the mandated veterinarian Surveillance of abortion in ruminants
Training for agro-food industrials 17 Agro-food industries : 1 day training course for export staff of agribusiness Workshops on export rules Co-organised with «FranceAgriMer» (organization promoting French products) Content : international business context, SPS rules, regulations and certification for export, etc. 2 weeks training course for insurance agents Acculturation to the risk assessment Co-organised with Groupama Insurance Content : process, health hazards, critical points, etc.
Training for breeders organizations 18 Breeders organizations : short training course for direction staff (1 3 days) Training for managers on sanitary context and governance Co-organised with «FNGDS» (federation of sanitary breeders organisations) Laboratories : future action?
English-speaking summer courses for official veterinarians of country partners of France 19 One course about Food safety, one about Animal Health and Welfare Organised in collaboration with France Vétérinaire International (FVI) (French organization dedicated to veterinary international cooperation) 3 weeks in june : lectures, working groups, field visits, case studies, European study trip. Week 1 : Framework and concepts Week 2 : Tools for sanitary risk assessment and management Week 3 : International and European Governance study tour OIE- Paris, FAO-Rome, WTO-Geneva, Europ. Commission-Bruxelles Challenge is to enable participants to : - gather and share experience - reflect on their own practices in the light of European and international management of both animal health and welfare and food safety.
Thank you Olivier FAUGERE Director Ecole Nationale des Services Vétérinaires - ENSV ensv@ensv.vetagro-sup.fr