Study Programmes 2015-2016
VETE0487-1  
General and clinical epidemiology of emerging diseases
Duration :
24h Th, 18h Mon. WS
Number of credits :
Specialised master in specialised veterinary medicine5
Lecturer :
Marius Gilbert, Hugues Guyot, Claude Saegerman
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
All year long, with partial in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases:
- Clinical examination of animals
- Analysis and interpretation of clinical findings
- Development of tools to support clinical decision
Learning outcomes of the course :
Being able to perform a clinical examination of a suspect with an emerging animal disease.
Being able to analyze the results of clinical examination and be able to interpret results at the population level.
Understanding the development of clinical decision tree.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Clinical examination in veterinary infectiology.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Interactive course.
Learning problem solving.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Face-to-face.
Recommended or required readings :
Notes available on the Web site eCampus.
Assessment methods and criteria :
A transverse general question on emerging diseases.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
The schedule is provided to students.
Contacts :
Clinical examination:
Prof. Hugues Guyot
hugues.guyot@ulg.ac.be

Clinical decision Tools :
Prof. Claude Saegerman
claude.saegerman@ulg.ac.be
Items online :
General and clinical epidemiology of emerging diseases
Power point présentations.