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Students’ Success on the Mandatory Anatomy and Histology Courses at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb -Influential Factors and Trends-

INTRODUCTION The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (University of Zagreb, Croatia) has for the past 100 years been the only higher education institution in Croatia where future doctors of veterinary medicine are educated. The integrated undergraduate and graduate study of veterinary medicine lasts for 6 years since the implication of the Bologna declaration in the academic year 2005./2006. The Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology has four mandatory courses which are held during the first three semesters. Three mandatory courses in anatomy during the first three semesters and one mandatory course in histology and embryology during the second semester. The aim of this study was to determine the influential factors and trends in the students’ success on the mandatory courses held by the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology during the period between the years 2007 and 2017. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data from academic year 2007./2008. until 2017./2018. were collected from our institutional student`s affairs office and the main faculty archive. Collected data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and Statistica 12 (StatSoft Inc. Tulsa, USA). Variables according to which the success of the study was evaluated are: academic year of enrollment in the study, gender of the students, secondary education by the type of finished secondary school and the average grade on the exams. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The analysis of the available data suggests a steady increase in the number of female students compared to male students and students with finished gymnasiums compared to other secondary schools. The results further showed that female students achieved better results on exams, while secondary education showed that students from gymnasiums had better level of success than students from secondary veterinary and vocational schools. CONCLUSION The data presented in this abstract are only presenting trends during the last 10 years. Further data gathering and research (in progress) is needed to describe the trends over a longer period of time.

Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology ; integrated undergraduate and graduate study of veterinary medicine ; students’ success ; gender ; high-school education.

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