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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
VETE0081-2  Clinic for ruminants (individual cases)
Duration :  70h Clin.
Credits/ECTS :  
Master in Veterinary Medicine, 3rd yearToute l'année3
Holder(s) :  Hugues Guyot, Christian Hanzen, Frédéric Rollin, Kamal Touati
Coordinator :  Kamal Touati
Language :  French language
Course contents :  Training of students is achieved through consultation and/or hospitalisation of ruminants for medical, surgical, obstetrical and reproductive pathologies.
Course objective :  The pedagogical objectives of the organized clinical activities are the following:

Initiating students to the collection of individual clinical symptoms (semiology) and complementary exams with regards to ruminants;

Analyze the collected data and to find a differential diagnosis and an individual diagnosis;

Establish a vital, economical and zootechnical prognosis;

Establish and apply a treatment (medical and/or surgical;

Establish methods of prevention.
Prerequisites :  All theoretical fields concerning the clinic for ruminants.
Workshops :  Without sense
Organization :  Attendance is compulsary from 8h30 until 17h.
Consultations, surgeries and nursing of hospitalized animals (referred cases from field veterinarians).
Consultaions, Herd health management at the experimental farm.
On-call duties and emergency receptions at the clinic and the experimental farm.
The rotation calendar and details of the organisation of the week will be given to the students before the beginning of the study year.
Written notes :  No specific notes.
Assessment :  During the clinical week each student will be evaluated according to their behaviour and practical skills.
Behaviour is represented by their motivation, attendance, tardiness, equipment and attitude...
Practical skills are evaluated at the end of the week by an oral exam lasting 10 min. relating to the hospitalized cases.
Behaviour and Practical skills represent 25% of the final grade.
This training will also be evaluated by a written exam during the exam session. the written exam is a multiple choice questionnaire related to clinical cases illustrated or not by slides and movies.
This evaluation takes place at the same time as the evaluation for the porcine clinic and that of the bovin farm visits, resulting in 2 grades on 20 at the end of the year.
Contacts :  Kamal Touati (co-ordinating) (kamal.touati@ulg.ac.be)

Frédéric Rollin (frollin@ulg.ac.be)
Christian Hanzen (christian.hanzen@ulg.ac.be)
Hugues Guyot (hugues.guyot@ulg.ac.be)

Secretariat : Marie Delacroix, Nathalie Chometton, Phone : 04/366 40 20.
Remarks :  Attendance taking in the clinic is automatic. An absence must be communicated by telephone prior to the beginning of the clinic. If it is not communicated it will be considered unjustified, unless it is a very serious matter. Medical (or others)certificates justifying the absence must be turned in to the secretary's office at the RUPO pole. A copy should also be turned in at the FMV administrative secretariat.

Unjustified absences will be taken into account during final deliberation.

Students should have adequate equipment for the ruminant clinic activities.


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