| Responsible Department | Department for Small Animal Clinical Sciences
50 % Department of Veterinary Disease Biology 50 % | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination No aid allowed Description of Examination: On the last day in the practical courses, one text and/or image diagnosis tests, and/or a practical skills test and/or clinical microbiology diagnostic test (1-h, indiv., no aids allowed) will be held to assess the knowledge and practical skills learned in the course.Re-examination will concern the theme(s) (clinical pathology or clinical microbiology) that has not been passed pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Students have to participate at least 80% of the practical course | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, theoretical and practical exercises, case-study work. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 3 Week Structure: Outside schedule, Year 1 Block 4 Week Structure: Outside schedule, Year 1 Block 1 Week Structure: Outside schedule, Year 2 Block 2 Week Structure: Outside schedule, Year 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Veterinary bachelor's degree | ||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | Ingen. Forbeholdt veterinærstuderende. | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| PropaedeuticsClinical microbiology (bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycology,)· Sampling· Analysis with regard to diagnosis of infectious agents, antimicrobial resistance and serological response to infection· Result interpretations· Prudent use of antimicrobials to minimize resistanceClinical Pathology (haematology, clinical chemistry, diagnostic cytology, urinalysis, faecal analysis, haemostasis, endocrinology, etc)· Overview of tests· The clinical pathology laboratory in veterinary practise· Pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical variation· Practicals in clinical pathology· Result interpretationsVeterinary serology:· Overview of tests (serologic test on serum, bulk milk, meat juice etc. to diagnose diseases and for surveillance of health status in production animal heards)· Application of tests (sampling strategies and results interpretation | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Lectures (to activate the student's prior knowledge on which to build on; to present overviews of specific topics; to introduce to practicals). Supervised work including e.g. e-learning and guided cases (to assist learning of practical skills, and to activate the student in order to facilitate learning relevant principles and clinical problem-solving in a laboratory context). Practicals (to facilitate learning of relevant laboratory methods, including state of the art characterization of antimicrobial resistance) | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| The purpose of this propaedeutic course is that the student must acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies required to examine or analyse the case, collect and analyse the laboratory data as the fundamental basis for a diagnostic and therapeutic plan for the case. The course thus relates to the Danish Act of veterinarians (Lov om dyrlæger (Lov nr. 433 af 09/06-2004) §12 stk. 1, pkt.. 2) and having completed the course, the student should be able to: Knowledge: ·Explain how to address and/or counteract common causes for variation in clinical microbiological and clinical pathological tests ·Explain functions and main disorders of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets; and the appropriate procedures to evaluate these cells in a blood smear. ·Interpretate common clinical pathological and microbiological test results as the fundamental basis for a diagnostic and therapeutic plan for the case ·Explain the principles of appropriate diagnostic methods in clinical microbiology ·Explain the principles of use of serological tests in surveillance of disease ·Explain how to use antibiotics to minimize antimicrobial resistance ·Explain the veterinary, human and society relevance of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria Skills: ·Prepare a blood smear ·Identify healthy and abnormal erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets ·Perform a leukocyte differential count ·Perform urinalysis (sticks, refractometry, sediment analysis) ·Assess quality of cytological specimens ·Identify and classify inflammatory reactions in cytological specimens ·Perform practice-relevant microbiological tests to identify possible cause of disease as a fundament for a proper therapy ·Evaluate results of serological tests for presence of infectious agents in animals ·Perform state-of-the art measurement of antimicrobial resistance. Competencies: ·Behave in a safe way in a laboratory ·Perform clear case reports ·Choose the correct samples and methods for laboratory analysis of the case | |||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||
| Clinical microbiology: A common book in veterinary clinical diagnostics will be the basis for teaching in bacteriology, parasitology and virologyGuardabassi et al. Guide to antimicrobial use in animalsVeterinary clinical pathology: Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, 2.ed. (eds. Stockham & Scott), 2008, ISBN: 9780813800769Small animal clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods, 4ed. (eds. Willard & Tvedten), 2003, Saunders (ISBN-10: 0-7216-8903-5)Veterinary serology: Not defined yet | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Mads Kjelgaard-Hansen, mjkh@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/Centrallaboratoriet, Phone: 353-33873 Luca Guardabassi, lg@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Microbiology, Phone: 353-32745 | |||||||||||||||
| Study Board | |||||||||||||||
| Study Committee V | |||||||||||||||
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