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| VETE0044-1 | Clinical Biochemistry applied to Veterinary Medicine | |||||
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| Duration : | 18h Th, 12h Pr, 12,5h PCL | |||||
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Marie Godeau | |||||
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| Course contents : | All the chapters deal with Biochemistry, since basics (related to laboratory) to pathologies regarding different metabolisms (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids) and tissues (blood, digestive system, liver, kidney...) which are the subject of daily routine. A special emphasis is made on the interpretation of laboratory results. | |||||
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| Course objective : | To teach the student about pathological and clinical veterinary biochemistry. The main goal is to give the student the tools to easily understand clinical biology when he/she will be a veterinarian. | |||||
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| Prerequisites : | Courses of second and third candidatures (a reminder of notions learned in candidatures appears in introduction of each chapter). | |||||
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| Workshops : | Practical works mean to improve the knowledge of theory. They are organised to teach the students how the equipment works but also to show the limits of the methods used in the laboratory. The students are then able to interpret laboratory results. | |||||
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| Organization : | Lectures are given according to the structure of the notes but are restricted to the main informations required to pass the final exam. | |||||
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| Written notes : | Notes of the pathological and clinical biochemistry are essentially meant to inform the student who want to improve his/her knowledge in this field. This field of Veterinary Medicine being in constant evolution, these notes can only be imperfect and incomplete, even if they appear to be well documented. Comparatively to human clinical biology, the main difference of Veterinary clinical biochemistry lies in the diversity of expression and regulation of traditional metabolisms resulting from species diversity. An important part of this work is devoted to reminders of general and special biochemistry, as well as physiology tought in candidature (supposed to be known). They aim to help the reader to better comprehend pathological biochemistry, to better assimilate the tests in clinical biochemistry and to comprehend their limits. For this reason, they are not usually part of the matter for the exam: the informations given during lectures and practical works must be known to pass the final exam. Reference Books: - Willard MD, Tvedten H & Turnwald GH. Small animal clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods. 4th ed. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2004 - Latimer K, Mahaffey E, Prasse KW. Duncan and Prasse's Veterinary Laboratory Medicine: Clinical Pathology. Iowa State University Press, Ames, 2003 | |||||
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| Assessment : | Final exams are partly written (one question about theory and/or tests of one chapter) and partly oral. The written part is quoted over 10 points. The oral part covers two sections: the first (quoted over 5 points) consists in answering at least 5 questions about any aspect of the matter given during lectures and the second part (quoted over 5 points) is about the correct interpretation of an animal laboratory results (laboratory techniques and species particularities). If the number of students exceeds the acceptable standard for this type of exam (250 students), a written evaluation (mcqtype) could be planned. | |||||
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| Contacts : | Prof. JM Godeau E-mail : jmgodeau@ulg.ac.be Tél. : 04/366 40 05 | |||||
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| Remarks : | Paraclinics could be held if logistics allows it. | |||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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