The veterinary education program (VEP) was critically reviewed extensively in the 20th century; first by the Committee on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in 1931, and second, by the Pew National Veterinary Education program in 1989. Both reports emphasized on the necessity of a broad-based general education, developing skills in oral and written communication and an integrated understandings of the world, its people and their cultures. One of the interesting characteristic in these reviews is that a special attention has paid to the social influence of the profession, rather than the number and type of credit-hours of veterinary curriculum (VC). In the report of 1989, the most critics is toward the futile increased duration and bulking up of the curriculum, which in turn, has created excessive pressures on the students and faculty members, as well as the disruption of the inherent dynamic cohesion of the VC; a cohesion that is an inseparable feature required to induce diagnostic competency, acceptable performance, ability to choose timely decision in a variety of difficulty situations that the veterinary surgeons would inherently been confronted. Therefore, the revision of the VEP and VC is something more that increasing and/or reducing the specific credit-hours. The educational strategy and tactic of the Veterinary Faculties (VF) should be determined, accordingly. There are several presumptions in the VEP that once were beneficial, now should be replace by new theories, prior to performing changes in the VEP ( ). The veterinary medical institutions were established in Iran (and probably the Middle East), once about the beginning of the 20th century, when the life style of the majority of the people was on a subsistence survival in the context of rural and/or nomadic manner of life. The Veterinary medicine and science have played a crucial role in the modernization of the life style of rural people, in the process of joining to the middle class of the society. The VEP has kept the former structure, while it should be prepared itself for the addressing the requirements of modern societies and a globalized world.

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