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Wersja polska

Course code: VVSS00129o12
Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Preventive Veterinary Medicine I
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 9
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Stefaniak
Language of instruction: Polish / English


Learning outcomes: Students understand herd breeding, feeding, prevention and health monitoring. They know the problems with newborn immunity and diseases concerned with immunity deficiency. They know laboratory methods of prevention and eradication within the herd.

Competences: Students are able to resolve the main problems connected with large herd management and are able monitor the herd’s health. They are able to assess the conditions of large animals and put into practice methods and the main principles of cooperation with the owner. Students are able to use some simple diagnostic methods, available in large animal veterinary.

Prerequisites: Animal breeding, Animal nutrition, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Ethology and Animal Welfare, Animal Hygiene

Course content: Course consists of fifth topics, decrypting the most important problems of food animals’ herds: 1. Prevention and health monitoring in herd; 2. Food animals’ immunity – especially immunity of newborn; 3. Losses in young stock – causes associated with alimentary tract; 4. Losses in young stock – causes associated with respiratory tract; 5. Losses in herd and progeny caused by inappropriate feeding. The most important swine and bovine herd problems (selected aspects of bovine, goat and horse health problems) methods of prevention and eradication within the herd.

Recommended literature: 1. Herd Health: Food Animal Production Medicine, Radostits O.M., Leslie K.E., Fetrow J., 2nd edition 1994 2. Large Animal Internal Medicine, Smith B.P. Mosby Inc., 2nd edition 1996

Assessment methods: Passing grades of course and written elaborates; written exam. Minimum grade for passing: 60%

Comment: This subject lasts two semesters: Preventive Veterinary Medicine I and II.