| Responsible Department | Department for Small Animal Clinical Sciences
97 % Department of Large Animal Sciences 3 % | ||||||||||||
| Duration | Two blocks | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall No aid allowed Description of Examination: Description of examination: written examination in week 9 of block 2. Two main essay questions contributing with 50% of the final grade and 50 multiple choice questions contributing 50% of the final grade. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | 80% participation in each module of practicals (clinical examination and basic surgical skills) | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | MSR: 24 to 36 modules of 3 to 4 hours Practicals: 25 days/team (36 students) The course can be taught in either Danish or English | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: Outside schedule Block 2 Week Structure: Outside schedule, Practicals according to separate schedule | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Restrictions | None. Forbeholdt veterinærstuderende. | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| Medicine, surgery and reproduction lectures.Occurrence, etiology, pathogenesis, work-up and treatment of medical, surgical and reproductive diseases. Problem oriented (POMR-based) assessment of patients. Integration of evidence and patient-client based aspects into treatment planPracticals in clinical examination and basic surgical skills . Patient handling and systematic clinical patient examination.Asepsis.Minor surgery.Basic anaesthesia | |||||||||||||
| 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 clinical context). Practicals (to facilitate learning of relevant clinical and surgical methods) | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The purpose of this master course is that the student must acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies required to examine a patient, analyse relevant information and construct a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic plan for a clinical veterinary case within companion animal medicine, surgery and/or reproduction. The course includes clinical skills labs and practicals on clinical examination and basic surgical techniques. 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). Having completed the course, the student should be able to: Knowledge: .Explain common medical, surgical and reproductive diseases with regards to occurrence, etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis .Explain optimal work-up and treatment plans for selected diseases .Explain the nomenclature of diseases, clinical findings and work-up and treatment procedures .Identify and integrate current relevant literature into diagnostic and treatment plans Skills: .Refer to the minimum database of knowledge acquired .Recite the basic elements from the database of knowledge .Obtain a patient history from a client .Perform a clinical examination of a companion animal (patient) .Write a POMR (problem oriented medical journal) based on history and clinical examination .Write a discharge letter to a client .Prepare an animal for surgery .Conduct an aseptical preparation for surgery .Conduct basic surgery within the followingoAtraumatic tissue handling Suturingo Instrument handling Hemostasiso Address complications Competencies: .Construct a meaningful diagnostic and treatment plan for a patient with a medical, surgical and/or reproductive problem .Perform a clinical examination according to POMR principles .Be able to manoeuvre in an aseptical environment .Be able to join a team of surgeons safely | |||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||
| Medicine: Small Animal Internal Medicine; R Nelson and C. Cuoto; Mosby, fourth ed. 2009 Surgery: Small Animal Surgery; Teresa Fossum, Mosby, third edition, 2007Reproduction: Arthur's Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics. Edited by David E. Noakes, Timothy J Parkinson and Gary C. W. England (W.B. Saunders).Practicals: Klinisk undersøgelsesmetodik og journalskrivning; J. Koch et al., DSR and Absalon (e-learning modules) | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Thomas Eriksen, ter@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/, Phone: 353-32935 Charlotte Reinhard Bjørnvad, crb@life.ku.dk, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences/, Phone: 353-32864 | |||||||||||||
| Study Board | |||||||||||||
| Study Committee V | |||||||||||||
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