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| VETE2031-1 | Biosecurity, veterinary good practices and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Biosecurity, veterinary good practices
- Evidence-Based Medicine
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| Duration : | Biosecurity, veterinary good practices : 1h Th, 30h Mon. WS
Evidence-Based Medicine : 4h Th, 4h Mon. WS
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| Holder(s) : | Biosecurity, veterinary good practices : Christine Filot, Claude Saegerman
Evidence-Based Medicine : Jean‑Michel Vandeweerd
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : |
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| Veterinarians play an important role in animals' welfare, animal and public health, environment protection, and provide a wide range of services. To properly fulfil these roles, vets must be aware and capitalize new skills, know-how and behaviours in matter of biosecurity, good veterinary practices and livestock farming as well as in evidence-based medicine.
Part I. Biosecurity, Good Veterinary and Farming practices
There is a growing interest of public opinion about prevention and control of emerging diseases and pathogens. Prevention of such outbreaks requires higher biosafety levels and implies an adaptation of the university veterinary education. International definition of biosecurity in the field of animal health is very wide (World Organisation for Animal Health, 2008): "Biosecurity is the execution of the measures that reduce the risk of introduction (bioexclusion) and diffusion of pathogens (bioconfinement); it demands the adoption of a set of attitudes and behaviours by people in a way to reduce the risk in any activity involving domestic animals, exotic and wild birds maintained in captivity and their products."
Fundamental principles of biosecurity are the followings: (i) biosecurity tends to reduce the risk of introduction and spread of an infection; (ii) people's actions are essential in the application of biosecurity and (iii) biosecurity is made up of three main steps (isolation, cleaning and disinfection); isolation being the most efficient action and disinfection the least one. Information, awareness and formation should be implemented in every single university implied in veterinary training.
Furthermore, a Good Veterinary Practice Guide was published? by the European Veterinaries Federation. It consists in a standard specifying the principles related to ethic and European veterinary deontology, as well as the requirements related to quality management in a veterinary structure. As an adviser, every vet should also be informed about the content of the WOAH-FAO Good Farming Practice guide, aiming to control the dangers that could threat animal health and food sanitary security at the farm level. Every single vet student should be aware of such information.
The course is constituted by a theoretical part (biosecurity procedures applied to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,University of Liege, Good Veterinary and Farming Practice codes) and by a practical part. Tutorials will be implemented by mean of simulation exercises for the learner and resolution of questions related to each chapter of the taught subject. |
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| Course objective : |
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| At the end of the course, the learner will be able to:
Part I. Biosecurity,Good Veterinary and Farming Practices
· Understand didactic materials made available, in English
· Know the biosecurity and Good Veterinary and Farming Practices codes issues
· Know and apply wisely practices of biosecurity in the faculty
· Know, understand and apply the main measures required to minimize the risk of introducing pathogens in individual production units (bioexclusion),the risk of transmission outside (bioconfinement), and the spread of pathogens throughout the food chain, with regards to zoonotic aspects
· Know and enforce good practices aiming at minimizing the risks for animal health and food safety that can occur at a farm level
· Explain the authority alert procedure in case of detection of a notifiable disease
· Improve his ability to provide services in accordance with customers' requests (breeders, competent authority)
· Know the means to demonstrate his ability to provide regular services complying customers' requests and legal requirements.
· Be aware of the veterinarian's role in matter of environment protection (responsible use of veterinary products, recycling of consummables) |
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| Prerequisites : |
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| General formation in veterinary sciences (bachelor's degree) |
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| Workshops : |
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| Practical class (30 hours): based on the student's personal work via a telematic platform (WebCity) which consists in studying each chapter of the course successively. |
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| Organization : |
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| Part I. Biosecurity and Good Veterinary and Farming Practices
· Lecture in French (1 hour): presentation of speakers, of the whole course and the different parts, of issues and global context, of pedagogic objectives to reach and of ways of functioning.
· Practical class (30 hours): based on the student's personal work via a telematic platform (WebCity) which consists in studying each chapter of the course successively. Each chapter includes a written support (Biosecurity manual of the Faculty and Good Veterinary or Farming Practice codes) and a telematic picturing support (didactic film or powerpoint presentation illustrating the main points to be memorised ). After studying each chapter, the student has to answer an on-line questionnaire in order to test his knowledge (max. 5 questions). Chapters are divided as follows:
o Chapter 1. Procedures and general biosecurity rules (C. Saegerman)
o Chapter 2. Biosecurity applied to horses (G. van Galen)
o Chapter 3. Biosecurity applied to large animals (F. Rollin et H. Guyot regarding ambulatory clinic)
o Chapter 4. Biosecurity applied to pets (K. Gommeren)
o Chapter 5. Biosecurity applied to poultry, rodents and exotic pets (Mihai Szalo)
o Chapter 6. Biosecurity applied to slaughterhouses, cutting-plants and other agro-alimentary industries (Marie-Athénaïs De Schaetzen)
o Chapter 7. Biosecurity in veterinary diagnosis laboratories (D. Cassart)
o Chapter 8. Good Veterinary Practice code (C. Saegerman)
o Chapter 9. Good Farming Practice code (C. Saegerman)
A part of the didactic material will be available in English, in a way to stimulate its learning. Time periods will be settled to allow students to meet a referent person for a more customized monitoring.
One referent person by chapter will also be identified to answerstudents' questions ont matters related to biosecurity, Good Veterinary and Farming Practices code. |
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| Written notes : |
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| Part I : Biosecurity and Good Veterinary and Farming Practices
· Biosecurity SOP applied to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,University of Liege
· Powerpoint presentation
· Didactic movie of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
· Good Veterinary Practice code of the European Veterinary Federation
· OIE-FAO Good Farming Practice Guide, aiming at ensuring food safety |
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| Assessment : |
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| Part I : Biosecurity and Good Veterinary and Farming Practice
· MCQ counting for 4/5 of the whole grade and including questions related to lectures with 80% of questions in French (knowledge of the topic) and 20% of questions in English (English understanding and knowledge of the topic) |
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