2018-2019 / VETE2068-1

Medicine, dentistry and general surgery for pets and equines, including principles of EBM

Duration

30h Th, 12h Clin. Pr.

Number of credits

 Veterinary surgeon3 crédits 

Lecturer

Frédéric Billen, Stéphanie Claeys, Catherine Delguste, Sigrid Grulke

Coordinator

Stéphanie Claeys

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This teaching unit includes the following chapters:
- general surgery
- wound healing and treatment: companion animals (CA) and horses
- dentistry (CA and horses)
- first consultation in CA
- management of the most frequent clinical situations in CA practice
- management of the most frequent clinical situations in equine practice
- evidence-based (veterinary) medicine (EB(V)M)

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- to gain the basic knowledge needed to understand the medical and surgical pathologies seen in bloc 2
- to prepare the students to deal with the most common clinical situations in their future profesional life
- to understand the basics of EBM, and apply them to answer clinical questions

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basic knowledge in anatomy and physiology of domestic animals.
EBM: understanding of scientific english, statistics, epidemiology, bibliographic research and information criticism.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Six practical sessions are organized: equine dentistry, equine colic approach, routes of administration and foot examination (EQ), surgical instruments (CA), cutaneous sutures on cadavers (CA), bandages (CA).
For the practical activities of this teaching unit, students should know and apply biosecurity rules available at this address : https://www.fmv-biosecurite.ulg.ac.be/
Presence of the students is MANDATORY. Any delay or absence must be communicated to Nadine Dumont (nadine.dumont@uliege.be). The missed practical session must be followed later by inserting another group after confirmation with Nadine Dumont (for CA sessions) or Yves Doyen (for EQ sessions) (yves.doyen@uliege.be). Any non excused absence exposes the student to being inadmissible to the theoretical exam.
Films exposing surure techniques, surgical instruments and bandages must be viewed before going to the 3 sessions in CA. Those films are accessible on ecampus.
The evaluation of the practical sessions is a global appreciation of the participation of the student. This appreciation .
The EBM part includes 3 hours of group works. The evaluation of this work can positively modulate the note obtained at the theoretical exam.
If the theorethical exam is not validated, students do not have to follow the practical activities a second time as soon as the reached the pass level for those activities.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face.
Both distance and face-to-face learning for the EBM practicals

Recommended or required readings

Course notes will be available on ecampus.

Assessment methods and criteria

A written exam will be organized on each session. 
The final mark results from a common decision of all the co-lecturers. This mark can not be split between the subfields of the course. A final mark < 10/20 will result in the student having to sit the exam again for the entire content of the course. 

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

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