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| VETE0016-4 | Internal medicine of Companion animals
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| Duration : | 52,5h Clin. |
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| Holder(s) : | Frédéric Billen, Cécile Clercx, Dominique Peeters |
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| Coordinator : | Cécile Clercx |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Students participate to the consultations of cases, mostly refered, help to perform ancillary diagnostic tools and are involved in the hospitalisation process of the patients. |
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| Course objective : | Pegagogic objectives include
- Ability to takean accurate history in companion animals cases
- Ability to analyse historical and clinical data
- Ability to establish differential diagnosis,
- Ability to establish vital and economic prognosis
- Ability to establish a treatment, and to apply it
- Practice of problem solving approach |
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| Prerequisites : | Lectures of first and second doctorat: semiology, propedeutics and medical pathology of small animals |
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| Organization : | Clinical teaching is ensurred thoughout a seven-weeks clinical carrousel and associated seminars, together with participation to the emergency service during nights, week-ends and examination and holiday periods.
Clinics are organized from 7h45 to 17h00, and up to 8h30 the next day when on night duty
Groups of students and clinical rotations are available at the beginning of the carrousel periods
Each student has to fill in a full written report based on a clinical case
Details of pratical organisation of clinical activites can be found on a clinical rules document , available on the CVU website . |
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| Written notes : | There are no specific leaflets, although lots of written leaflets exist, for different practical seminars. |
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| Assessment : | Students are evaluated during their clinical prestations, a written and oral evaluations are also organized, and the written reports are evaluated. |
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| Contacts : | Cécile Clercx,
Tél. : 04/366 42 00 |
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| Remarks : | The presence of the student is due. For each absence or late arrival, the student needs to be excused in a very bried delay, medical certificate must be sent immediately to the secretary of the concerned service, with a copy to the general student secretariat. Missed days need to be made up.
Missed days will possibly lead to suspension to access the final examination. Unjustified absence will be punished and taken into account during deliberations. |
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