Employment of Veterinarians

CONTENTS TOPIC PAGE Foreword 1 Summary of Project Since 1965 5 Veterinary Medicine in Kenya The Livestock Industry 8 Employment of Veterinarians 11 Livestock Diseases 14 Zoonoses 16 Research, Extension and Continuing Education 17 Operational Plan, Contract AID/afr-790 21 Scope of Work 22 Contract Staff 22 History of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 24 Beginning of Colorado State University Program of Technical Assistance 27 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Structure 29 Undergraduate Program of Study 29 Structure of Curriculum 30 Courses of Study 30 Examination Sche2me 31 Outlines of Courses 33 Postgraduate Programs of Study 39 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Departmental Structure Clinical Studies 41 Pathology and Microbiology 43 Anatomy and Histology 45 Animal Physiology 46 Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology 47 Kenyanization of the Faculty 48 Government of Kenya Contribution to the Project 49 Professional Staff Supplied by C.S.U. Field Staff in Nairobi 54 Campus Coordinators 60 Administrative Staff 60 Recruitment of Field Staff 62 Publications by C.S.U. Field Staff 64 Publications by Counterparts 66 Unpublished Research 68 Post Graduate Courses 69 Graduate Student Supervision 70 International Meetings 72 External Examiners from C.S.U. 73 Participant and Counterpart Training Summary 74 Distribution of Participants in U.S. Universities 74 Selection of Participants 75 Support of Participants Upon Return-to Kenya 77 Participants 78 Counterpart Training 85 Final Reports of Field Staff Parasitology, Dr. A. E. Sollod 87 Clinical Studies, Herd Health, Dr. D. E. Ward 90 Tables of Disease Incidence 96 Clinical Studies, Surgery, Dr. W. A. Wolff 98 Project Expenditures 108 Other International Donor Involvement 109 Commodities i1 Furniture and Appliances, Grant-in-Aid 115 Projection to the Future 119 Veterinary Manpower' Needs in Kenya 119 Table: Current Undergraduate Enrollment 121 Table: Graduates Since 1970 122 Post Graduate Education 123 Department of Clinical Studies 124 Clinical Case Accessions 127 Department of Pathology and Microbiology 131 Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology 132 Textbooks 132 Continuing Relationships 133 Appendices A - Veterinary Manpower in Kenya 135 B - Address to Kenya Veterinary Association 142 C - Loan Proposal for Practicing Veterinarians 146 D - Research on Cysticercosis and Hydatidosis 154 E - Dr. A. F. Alexander, Pathoiogy (External Examiner Report) 187 F - Dr. D. G. Low, Clinical Studies (External Examiner Report) 197 G - Dr. W. V. Lumb, Clinical Studies (External Examine Report) 202 H-l Commodity Situation 205 H-2 Latest Commodity Shipment 209 I - Work Plan, Colorado State University 215 J - Dean Tietz Report 225 K - Drs. York and Konnerup Report 243 L - Prof. McIntyre Report on the Department of Clinical Studies 258 TABLES AND CHARTS TITLE PAGE Outlines of Courses, Faculty of Veterinary iedicine 33 Professional Staff, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 40 Kenyanization of the Faculty 48 Gove-nment of Kenya Contribution 49 Publications, CSU Field Staff 64 Publications, Counterparts 66 Unpublished Research 68 Graduate Student Supervision 70 Distribution of Participants in U.S. Universities 74 Disease Distribution, Herd Health Program 96-97 Project Expenditures 108 Commodities Purchased, Dollar and Shilling Values 114 List of Grant-in-Aid Furniture and Appliances 117 Students Enrolled, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 121 Graduates, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 1970-77 122 Clinic Case Accessions, 1977 127 Veterinary Manpower Requirements for Kenya 138 Estimated Livestock Numbers in Kenya 141 FINAL REPORT A PROGRAM OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE at the FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI KENYA July 1971 July 1978 Presented by THE COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY to the UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT AID/afr-790 FORWARD This final report is submitted as part of contract requirements follow ing phaseout of the Colorado State University/United Stazes Agency for International Development Project at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya. The term of this contract, designated AID/afr-790, was 7 years and continued the previous contract which started in January 1965, with some overlap of personnel from the previous contract. The objectives of the two contracts were similar but with major emphasis being placed by USAID on development of post graduate capabilities within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The scope of the work, as stated in the contract, was that the Contractor, in cooperation with officials of the University of Nairobi, should perform but not be limited to the following services: 1) Teach courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. 2) Improve the relevance of the curriculum to the veterinary needs of Kenya and East Africa. 3) Establish a vigorous program of post graduate research within the Faculty. 4) Assist in selection and training of East African citizern replace ments for all contractor positions by June 30, 1978 , or sooner if possible. 5) Two external examiners will be provided annually by the contractor for the first 5 years of the project activity. One is to be selected from the Contractor University and one from another institution. The external examiners will serve the following purposes: a) to provide external examiner services to the University; and b) to assist the Mission in determining if project purposes are being accomplished. Additionally, the Contractor was to provide one staff member who would qualify for and assume the duties of Chairman of the Department of Clinical Studies. Money was provided in the budget for purchases of commodities and equip ment in support of teaching and research activities of Colorado State Uni versity veterinarians and their African counterparts. Realistic goals were attained under this contract and in some cases went beyond the expectations of the initial statement of scope of the work. All technicians were intimately involved in the teaching of undergraduate courses and in the improvement of the relevance of the curriculum. Nineteen Kenyans were identified as participants and subsequently were trained at Masters or Ph.D. levels in the United States. One CSU veterinarian served as Chairman of the Department of Clinical Studies for 1 years. External examiners from Colorado State University performed their prescribed functions and equipment purchased through USAID funds has been put into use to the benefit of the Faculty. Numerous research programs were proposed and carried out with the subsequent publishing of professionai papers by CSU professional staff and their counterparts. The one area of controversy during this contract was the establishment of courses taught at the graduate level at the Faculty. The USAID Mission in Nairobi was highly critical of failure of this phase of the project but, at the same time, recognized the major accomplishments of the other phases of the project, especially the Kenyanization of the Faculty through the o participant program and the improvement of the undergraduate curriculum and its relevance to the needs of veterinary medicine in East Africa. Colorado State University technicians did attempt to establish graduate courses but they were subsequently dropped due to lack of interest within the Faculty in general and by Kenyan counterparts in particular. Itmust be understood -2 that the University of Nairobi follows the European system of graduate education where the graduate student is assigned a supervisor with whom he works closely, usually in private library research relevant to a research project and thesis which is the major or even the only part of degree requirements. Taught graduate courses are few in number within the University but that number is increasing as the University recognizes the need to support graduate students with coursework of high professional quality that can be classified as post graduate. The time was not propitious for the introduction of a vigorous program of postgraduate coursework. Improvement of the under graduate program assumed first priority and occupied nearly all the time and efforts of CSU professionals. The time would now seem to be ripe for the introduction of further efforts specifically designed to establish a "vigorous" graduate program at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and it seems likely that the University of Nairobi would be very receptive to negotiations with USAID and Colorado State University for this specific purpose. It is hoped that such discussions could begin in the very near future. he job is there to be done, the undergraduate intrastructure is adequate, the University of Nairobi is very interested, and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, through its long experience at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, has the expertise and the desire to do the job. Finally, it will become obvious to the reader of this report that it is the effort of one individual, the last Chief-of-Party of the project. In fact, no one else was available to do the job. The reader is therefore cautioned that there may be omissions and errors which would not have occurred had more individuals been able to contribute. The author of this report expresses deepest gratitude to all who were -3 involved in the project: the Deans and Faculty at the University of Nairobi, University of Nairobi officials, USAID officials both in Nairobi and Washington,

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