Duration
20h Clin.
Number of credits
| Veterinary surgeon | 1 crédit |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Dead animals, issued from the clinics or submitted for necropsy by field practitioners are choice material for student training. Over 2000 necropsies of domestic animals and wildlife are routinely performed every day.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- To identify and to describe lesions, to correlate lesions and diseases in the various systems and organs.
- To evaluate differential lesions diagnoses and to deduct a cause of death.
- To propose or to confirm an etiologic diagnosis and to decide on relevant associated procedures.
- To learn how to write a necropsy report using appropriate medical terms and to discriminate between the relative importance of the various observations.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Theoretical medical backgrounds taught in 1st and 2nd blocks in association with the various clinics are an essential prerequisite. Besides, specific backgrounds taught in "General pathology" and "Systemic Pathology" courses are unescapable prerequisites.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Organized by clinical rounds completed by additional duties covering the session of exams in June. Students presence is requested every day of the week from 8:30AM to 12:00 noon. The rotation carousel is made available at the beginning of each academic year.
Recommended or required readings
There is no specific handout.
Assessment methods and criteria
Formal assessment is done during the block 3 only. It may consist of an oral exam directly organized around a dead animal and/or of the written drafting of autopsy reports. The student's assessment is made during the internal stage. The notes will be displayed in a qualitative form after the clinical carousel is over. The student has the opportunity to ask an exam during the session itself provided he/she enrolls according to the rules displayed in the department's secretariat.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Presence at the autopsy clinic is mandatory. Any unjustified absence will be sanctioned during the establishment of the examination note. Furthermore, nonjustified absences will be considered during deliberations. The term "justified" is understood as any absence related (1) to a health problem duly attested by a medical certificate or (2) to the death of a relative in the first or second degree, again duly attested by a copy of death certificate. Supporting documentation must be sent to the student secretariat AND to the secretariat of the service BEFORE the holding of the corresponding clinic.
Contacts
D. DESMECHT (coordinator), M. GARIGLIANY Morphology and Pathology Department Secretary's office : 04/366.40.75
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
To compensate for the absence in the necropsy room, a virtual case is sent every day by email to each student supposed to be in the autopsy clinic ; it is a necropsy report with animal description, anamnestic data and description of the lesions. The exercise consists of filling out the necropsy report with an anatomopathological diagnosis, an interpretation of the case, an aetiological differential diagnosis (possibly the pathogenesis of the disease) and the samples to carry out. All the cases are different. At the end of the week, each student receives a personalized feedback by email.
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Each exercise is evaluated out of 20; the final grade is the arithmetic mean between the results obtained by the student for the different exercises.
Contacts
Dominique Cassart
dominique.cassart@uliege.be
32 478 90 68 08