Teacher training of Veterinary professors in Spain

For a long time, no specific qualification or certified training in teaching have been not demanded to professors to access higher education. Thus, the professor teaching training tends to be, in the majority of cases, a self-directed process that does not have regulated path to deal with the continuous and necessary update to face technological, methodological and structural changes of higher education in recent years. However, many teachers are looking for training and improving their teaching skills through a dispersed and broad offer of courses and activities. Since he creation of the EHEA, the interest of our universities and professional groups in further professional training of their teachers, as a guarantee for the upgrading and quality in university teaching, have been increased. Through their institutes and departments of Educational Sciences, universities assume responsibility to offer to their teachers a highly variable offer of training activities. In this article different aspects of teacher training in the field of the Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, in particular, are analysed: the educational spheres, the offer of regulated and non-regulated training activities (congresses, meetings, readings, publications,...), capacity and possibility of teaching innovation and the institutional assessment and the evaluation systems that currently exist in universities and quality evaluation agencies.