Principles of exercising veterinary medicine

Duration

Veterinary law and deontology : 17h Th
Legal provisions : 13h Th
Meeting with the veterinary profession : 4h Mon. WS

Number of credits

Lecturer

Veterinary law and deontology : Pascal Gustin, Benoît Kohl, Claude Saegerman
Legal provisions : Hugues Guyot, Claude Saegerman
Meeting with the veterinary profession : Antoine Clinquart

Coordinator

Claude Saegerman

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

Veterinary law and deontology
In the part of the course allocated to deontology (P. Gustin - 5 h), the structure and functioning of the order of veterinaries are explained and the articles of the deontology code are commented.
In the part dedicated to "Law and veterinary medicine" (B. Köhl et C. Saegerman - 12 h), students receive simultaneously an initiation to the Belgian legal system and the essential legal rules to be respected in their professional practice.
Legal dispositions
In the part Legal dispositions in the veterinary practice (C. Saegerman - 8 h), the following chapters are presented:

• Introduction
• Legal framework
• Identification, registration, traceability, mandatory notification, sectorial guides for self-control
• Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
• Epidemiosurveillance in veterinary public health
• Emerging/ re-emerging zoonosis: challenges and opportunities.
• Enzooties
• Epizooties

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The teaching unit aims two distinct learning objectives, i.e.:
1° Veterinary law and deontology and legal dispositions
2° Meeting with veterinary professionals


Veterinary law and deontology
The objective of the Deontology course is to inform on the necessity to respect a certain number of rules when practicing veterinary medicine.
The objective of the course of Law and veterinary medicine aims to give to the future doctors in veterinary medicine an initiation to the law rules under which their professional practice will be implemented. This course has two parts. The first part of the course is dedicated to the study of the five most frequent norms encountered by the veterinarians:

• international norms
• laws and decrees
• royal decrees
• ministerial decrees and
• agreements between individuals.

• Presentation of the legal system with a special focus on the legal expert role and function,
• Presentation of the civil responsibility rules, especially in regards to animal facts and professional responsibility insurance,
• introduction on animals sales and redhibitory defects in the case of animal sales and
• a summarised description of the actual enforcement of legal sanctions.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Veterinary law and deontology
None
Legal dispositions
Co-requisite: immunology and pathology of viral, bacterial and parasitological diseases.
Meeting with the veterinary profession
None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Veterinary law and deontology

• Course in auditorium (17h)
• Interactive session
• The teachers are available at the end of the class in order to answer students' questions.

• Course in auditorium (13h)
• Interactive session largely illustrated by a computer assisted presentation.
• The teachers are available at the end of the class in order to answer students' questions.

• Testimonies from professionals

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning


Additional information:

Veterinary law and deontology

• On campus

• On campus

• Presentation in an auditorium

Recommended or required readings

Veterinary law and deontology

• Course notes available on e-Campus.
• Code of deontology (http://www.ordre-veterinaires.be/)
• Recommended readings:

• Course notes available at the « Office des cours".
• Reference book: no recommended books but a list of internet websites with available and useful information are mentioned in the course notes.

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )


Additional information:

Evaluation modalities and criteria:

The meeting with veterinary professionals is no subject to any formal evaluation but effective presence at the meeting is compulsory. Indeed, an absence from this activity gives rise to an overall score of "A" if the absence is unjustified or to an overall grade "E" if the absence is justified. As a result, the VETE2067-1 course will not be credited for the current year and the student will have to submit this course to their "PAE" the following year.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Veterinary law and deontology

• Prof. Benoît Kohl

• Prof. Pascal Gustin

• Prof. Claude Saegerman

• Prof. Claude Saegerman

• Prof. Hugues Guyot

• Dr. Fabiana Dal Pozzo (Amcra): invited reference person for antimicrobial resistance.  
  Meeting with the veterinary profession
  
• Prof. Tatania Art, Doyenne

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