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Course code: VVSS00294o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Internship-Farm Animals I
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 45 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Jan Twardoń
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: -Performs clinical examination of the patients. -Properly interprets clinical data and additional laboratory results -Implements therapeutic principles (including surgical procedures) -Knows the rules for issuing decisions and provides opinions for the state administration bodies, local government and professional Practical skills: -Performs a full clinical examination of the animal -Uses diagnostic equipment, including x-ray, ultrasound and other -Collects samples, is familiar with the procedures of transportation and is able to perform basic laboratory tests -Is able to apply appropriate treatment
Competences: -Puts the patient's well-being in the first place -Is aware of his own limitations -Is able to operate under the uncertainty and stress -Is able to organize work team
Prerequisites: Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy, Physiology, Physiopathology, Microbiology, Immunology, Clinical Diagnostic, Pharmacology, Parasites Diseases , Diseases of Farm Animals
Course content: Practical examination of farm animals, effective diagnosis of farm animal diseases, farm animal internal diseases, suitable therapy (including surgical procedures) in ruminants and swine
Recommended literature: Smith B.P. 1996. Large Animal Internal Medicine. Mosby, St. . Louis; Divers T.J, Peek S.F. 2007, Rebuhn’s Diseases of Dairy Cattle. Sunders Elsevier, St.Louis; Andrews A.H., Blowey R.W., Boyd H., Eddy R.G. 2004. Bovine Medicine. Diseases and Husbandry of Cattle. Blackwell, Oxford
Assessment methods: Credit for a course (minimal knowledge to pass– 60%)
Comment: This subject consist of two parts: Internship-Farm Animals I and II.