Unit CLINICAL WORK IN VTH ADVANCED COURSE
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- 85036501
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesco Porciello
- Teachers
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- Francesco Porciello
- Hours
- 25 ore - Francesco Porciello
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2014
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Altro
- Area
- Altre conoscenze utili per l'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro
- Academic discipline
- NN
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course takes place within the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital facilities. Students are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics carried out both on pets than on horses as well as food producing animals.
Activities take place in shifts defined as: a) day shift from 8:00 am to 16:00 b) evening shift from 16.00 to 24.00 c) night shift from 24.00 at 9.00
Each student, guided by tutors and professors working in OVUD, are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities that take place on the animals visiting or admitted to OVUD. The activities are different depending on the day time slot, evening or night and include visits, specialist medical scans, applying medical therapies, surgical and obstetric, emergency management in the emergency department, monitoring of the clinical condition of the hospitalized animals. - Reference texts
- Students are required to interact with the Teacher through the UNISTUDIUM portal of the University where, in the space devoted to this course, together with suggestions, recommendations and guidelines given by the Teacher, teaching materials are available in the form of assigned assignments.
- Educational objectives
- The planned activities are essentially practical, and therefore it is expected that the students acquire practical skills on the physical exam of the sick animals, in the practical management of hospitalized animals in applying the main instrumental diagnostic tests in drug and medical therapeutic maneuvers, surgical and obstetric. In any case the "red week advanced course" only represents a small part (25 hours) of the time allotted for the teaching practice of the course of studies in veterinary medicine and is designed to allow students to experience an initial "full immersion" into reality veterinary hospital. This experience represents the continuation of the "red week basic course" in which the student was able to touch the animal sick initial approach by collecting medical history questioning the owner and doing the exam overall objective. The minimum learning objective for the "red week advanced course" is the ability to perform particular physical examinations of the individual apparatuses.
- Prerequisites
- The knowledge that a student must possess at the beginning of the activities planned for this course are derived from the "red week basic course" and the teachings characteristic of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.
To draw from this teaching the maximum profit it is important that the student knows the etiology, pathology and symptoms of major diseases of small animals and horses. - Teaching methods
- Direct participation, under the supervision of structured and unstructured teachers and veterinarians, for clinical activities in OVUD
- Other information
- To be admitted to attend the course, you must have the following certificates and requirements:
- Attendance of course on Legislative Decree 81/2008;
- To be covered with anti-tetanical vaccination and present the up-to-date certification, issued by the ASL in charge, at the Didactic Secretariat (Polo Didattico Veterinaria Medicina Veterinaria); - Learning verification modality
- There is no evaluation in the form of a oral or written exam, but each student will have to prepare a detailed report on the activity. This report must be compiled on UNISTUDIUM according to the instructions contained in the assignment section. The teacher evaluates the report and assigns a score (max 30/30) that is intended to indicate to the student the value of the product but does not have the value of exam grade. Student fitness is evaluated during the practical activity and on the basis of the presented report. Verbalization of fitness is performed periodically for the group of students who have reached the required hours of attendance.
The Activity Tutor will collect the attendance sheets of everyone who has completed all three scheduled shifts, logbooks and booklets one day every week. Booklets and logbooks will be returned to their Students on the following week at the same venue and at the same time. - Extended program
- The course takes place within the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital facilities. Students are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics carried out both on pets than on horses.
Activities take place in shifts defined as: a) day shift from 8:00 am to 16:00 b) evening shift from 16.00 to 24.00 c) night shift from 24.00 at 9.00
Each student, guided by tutors and professors working in OVUD, are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities that take place on the animals visiting or admitted to OVUD. The activities are different depending on the day time slot, evening or night and include visits, specialist medical scans, applying medical therapies, surgical and obstetric, emergency management in the emergency department, monitoring of the clinical condition of the hospitalized animals.
Students, during the practical activities, interact with veterinary staff and compare also discussing the theoretical aspects regarding the cases under observation.