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Course code: VVSS00332f16Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Veterinary advisement in large farms - elective
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 12 / 18 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Stefaniak
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Preparation of future veterinarian to unassisted complex analysis of large farm conditions, elaboration of expertise and its presentation to the owner.
Competences: Ability to unassisted analysis of farm problems, to carry out the examination of representative group, and elaboration of general evaluation of herd health.
Prerequisites: Animal breeding, Technology in animal production, Animal nutrition, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Ethology, Welfare and Animal Protection, Animal hygiene, Veterinary Prevention
Course content: Description of the most important tasks of the farm veterinarian, based on the example of dairy farms. At visits in the farm carrying the evaluation of the farm, and production groups of animals, collection of samples for laboratory examination, analysis of farm records, analysis of nutrition and keeping conditions, recognition of management programme. Elaboration and interpretation of the results of the material collected on the farm, preparation of the opinion about the farm, presentation the presults to the owner.
Recommended literature: 1. Herd Health: Food Animal Production Medicine, Radostits O.M., Leslie K.E., Fetrow J., 2nd edition 1994 2. Actual veterinary literature.
Assessment methods: Written test
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