Welcome to the website of the School of Veterinary Medicine (SoVM), which is located at the UNAM Neudamm campus under the umbrella of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR). The school started in 2016 and is the first and only veterinary school in Namibia. It offers the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree in a BVM course that is to be completed in a minimum of six and a maximum of eight years.
The purpose of the six-year program is to train veterinary professionals who are adequately equipped with skills to assist both the public and private sectors in all relevant veterinary fields including disease surveillance, diagnostics, prevention, control and veterinary public health, especially in the remote areas of the country.
The program aims to train veterinary professionals to comply both with the World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE) Day-one competencies, and the requirements of the Namibian Veterinary Council as outlined in the Regulations pertaining to the Veterinary and Veterinary Para-professionals Act, Act 1 of 2013. The overall mission of the SoVM is "To promote development through training, research, extension, provision of services to the public and private sector in an environmentally friendly manner" in veterinary medicine, epidemiology, public health and food safety, livestock economics and jurisprudence.
