Duration
22h Th, 24h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in veterinary medicine | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Anatomy is the science which study the organisation of living beings. It is the fondation of the teaching of medicine and consists of a necessary introduction to the knowledge of the sound organism and its functions. Veterinary anatomy is general and comparative: it concerns all animal domestic species and describes resemblances and caracteristical differences.
The course anatomy of domestic animals III is the third part of the anatomy course. It comes after anatomy of domestic animals I and II of the second year of the bachelor grade.The IV anatomy course for which it is a pre-requisite will follow.
The course will begin with general angiology (heart, arteries, veins and lymphatics) and general neurology (basic anatomical vocabulary, divisions of the nervous system, sense of information, peripheral nervous system: spinal nerves, autonomic nervous system. Topographical anatomy, angiology and applied neurology of the neck, thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities will then be studied. Comparative foetal anatomy will also be studied
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
A the end of the lessons, students must be able to cite the general organisation of all the studied systems, to describe and draw the morphology of anatomical structures, to explain their functions. The understanding of the matter is essential to pass the examination. In practics, the student must be able to adapt the knowledge to the professional requirements, particularly in the field of clinical sciences; medical imaging, semiology, propedeutics and surgery as well as in foodstuffs inspection
Anatomy is a big course that may frighten several students that believe that they must learn by heart. However, even if long hours are necessary to learn it, the numerous connections made with physiology, histology, biochemistry and pathology make it very interesting and necessitate its comprehension.
It is usefull to begin with the study of the table of content, with big titles and then general conformation, main characteristics, function and localisation before studying small details. It is especially necessary to understand what you study!
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge of anatomy courses of the second year is indispensable. See this later in the section " evaluation ".
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assistance to practical lessons is obligatory. A student with 2 or more non justified absences during the TPs may be forbidden to present his exam during the first session. A student with a justified absence must make up for lost practice hours. The student must be able to realise a nice dissection, to describe what he has dissected, to identify the different structures and their function. He has to look and learn what the other students has dissected. The students must prepare their dissections. Before every session of practical classes, the student will have to listen to (or listen again) the podcasts of the theoretical lessons and to listen the practical films on e-campus. Assessments (pre-requisite questioning) will be made every beginning of session of practical class or by means of quiz on ecampus. A file, published on myulg or ecampus will inform the student about the piece he has to dissect and that, with the aim to better prepare the TP. Questioning about pratical knowledge will be regularly organised during the practical classes. These interrogations are mainly formative but the notes obtained for these interrogations can be taken into account in the final evaluation to save a bad practical examination. There are 24 hours of practical works (TP) in the programm. These TPs are obligatory and complementary to theoric lessons. They are organised by groupes of 45 to 50 students during 2 weeks (12h TP/week). The following TPs are organised concerning angiology, neurology and topographical anatomy.Dissection of neck; Dissection of the trunk (thorax and abdomen). The matter is approached there in a regional way. Instructions of arrangement You are responsible for your dissection room, what means that at the end of session, before the taking of the presences, it will be advisable to tidy up it and to clean the material which you will have used. Here is in detail for what we expect from you: = > the parts of dissection must be gathered on a minimum of tables to be put in the refrigerator. = > beforehand, it will be advisable to cover your parts by means of the skin or of the wet cloth to avoid the drying. = > the buckets of every table must be emptied in the wheelbarrow AND put back under the adequate table attached by means of the thread = > the blades of scalpel will be thrown in the appropriate yellow trash cans. It is advisable to verify that no blade of scalpel is lying about on tables, edge of sinks, etc. == > stools will be tidied up in a corner of the room. == > the empty tables and the provided equipment will be cleaned and tidied up in the room. == > the last one will verify that the door of the refrigerator is closed well, that faucets are closed well and that sinks do not flow any more.
Biosecurity measures:For the practical activities of this UE, the student will have to know and apply the biosecurity rules available at the following address: https://www.fmv-biosecurite.ulg.ac.be/anatomie/marche-a-suivre-unique
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
22 hours of theoric lessons are at the program. The typical horary includes 4 hours of anatomy lessons per week . Assistance to theoric lessons is not compulsory. However, it is strongly advised because the way to address the course is clearly developped and the focus is put on the parts to be known to be able to pass the examination. Schemes and drawings are frequently realised on a graphic tablet, put "online" and permit an easier memorisation. Most of the lessons will be podcast. A revision session can be organised at the end of the year at the request of the students. The matters that are not understood must be transmitted to the delegates that will draw up a list they will transmit to prof Gabriel some days before the session. The theoric lessons and the revision session are the only moments where the theory is developped. The aim of the TPs is for training and practical knowledge and not for teaching!
Recommended or required readings
Reference books
The power points, support of the lessons, and the reference drawings will be available electronically on myulg or e-campus. They contain all the informations necessary to pass the examination.
Dyce, Sack and Wensing. Textbook of veterinary anatomy. Ed. W.B. Saunders Company
Advised readings:
Sissons and Grossman's. The anatomy of the domestic animals. Volume 1. Ed. W.B. Saunders.
Anatomy of the dog. Miller, Christensen and Evans. Ed. W.B. Saunders Company
A color atlas of clinical anatomy of the dog and cat. J.S.Boyd. Wolfe Publishung Ltd.
Anatomie comparée des mammifères domestiques. Barone R. Angiology, Nervous system
Assessment methods and criteria
The examination consists of two main part: a theoretical and a practical examination. In the second session, this examination can, according to the number of students that must represent the course, be preceded by an examination of prerequisite. If the student fails, he cannot take his oral examination nor his practical examination.The theoretical part consists of a written part followed by an oral examination. The practical examination represents 20% of the total note, consists in in recognizing and discribing several structures giving their functions. The horaries established for these examinations must be strictly respected. It is very important to know the precise topography of the structures, and to link them to the clinic. It is necessary to understand the matter to make a success of the examination as well as the knowledge of prerequisites. To made a success of the examination, the student must be able of representing in a schematic way, the bones of the limbs with their axes (including belts), to place the members with regard to the trunk and to the vertebral column, to cite and place the main muscular masses. He must also know how to schematize the organs of every system and place them topographycally. If these prerequisites are not acquired, it is impossible to understand the vascularization and the innervation; this will imply a note <10/20. The students experiencing difficulties or stressed by an oral examination can ask in the course of the year to pass a "white" examination. They have to book an appointment by e-mail and bound the subject about which they wish to be questioned.
There is no partial exemption within this teaching unit. The student with a mark <10/20 must represent both parts of the exam in the second session
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The presence in practical class is compulsory. Rather than to waste time to take the presences, the dissections realized by the students will serve as control of presences.
Parts put at the disposal the students must be completely dissected and the dissections have to be of quality to allow all the students of the group to benefit from it for their apprenticeship.
Contacts
Prof Annick Gabriel
Tel : 04/366 40 60
Fax: 04 366 40 76
annick.gabriel@ulg.ac.be
Students may obtain a rendez-vous (preferate way: by e-mail) if they have any problem.