Unit ORTHOPEDIC DIAGNOSTICS AND SURGERY IN LARGE ANIMALS

Course
Veterinary medicine
Study-unit Code
A000679
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Francesca Beccati
Teachers
  • Francesca Beccati
Hours
  • 25 ore - Francesca Beccati
CFU
1
Course Regulation
Coorte 2018
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
A scelta dello studente
Area
A scelta dello studente
Academic discipline
VET/09
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian if there are not Erasmus students; English if there are Erasmus or foreign students
Contents
The ADE foresees the carrying out of practical activity of diagnostic and orthopedic surgery to be developed on didactic horses and/or on anatomical specimens.
Reference texts
Weaver and Barakzai: Handbook of Equine Radiography
Butler et al.: Clinical radiology of the Horse

Auer: Equine Surgery, IV edition Saunders Ed. ISBN 0 7216 2860 5
Educational objectives
D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABILITY
The student have to:
- know the correct diagnostic path from orthopedic disease
- know the correct surgical plan

D2 - ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- how to approach and evaluate in a practical view equine orthopedic cases from the diagnosis to the medical and surgical treatments

D3 - AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- know how to apply the diagnostic and therapeutic planning the main equine orthopaedic disease

D4 - COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- know how to report to an appropriate audience the reasons for the diagnostic and therapeutic planning in the management of equine orthopedics disease

D5 - LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- consult and understand scientific test, literature update and orthopedics case reports
Prerequisites
In order to understand and to apply the procedures required in this course, it is necessary to have passed the exams of Veterimanry Surgical Semiotics and Pathology. For some topics the ability to obtain and interpret basic radiographic projections of the limb of the horse will be required to pass the course with profit.
Teaching methods
The ADE is organized as follow:
practical exercise in surgical or ambulatory rooms of the Surgery Unit of the OVUD. According to the number, students will be divided in two or three groups and as a group will take place directly diagnostic procedures on the patient (two hours), the other group will follow the teaching materials (slide) about the different steps to be used to address the surgical disease showed and/or improve the use of the diagnostic/surgical procedures described (two hours) under the teacher supervision.
Other information
This course includes also complementary didactic activity represented by meetings and seminars with PhD students, interns and students by planning and agreeing with the student during the ADE
Learning verification modality
Final discussion with the students. Preparation of power points about previously assigned clinical cases, in order to assess the methods of approach to the clinical case and the knowledge acquired during ADE in relation to etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy
Extended program
The ADE foresees the carrying out of practical activity of diagnostic and orthopedic surgery to be developed on didactic horses, on anatomical specimens and on radiograpic and CT images of the horse. Acquisition of basic radiographic projections radiografiche of the foot, fetlock, carpus, hock and stifle of the horse.
Description and interpretation of the images through writing of a diagnostic report.
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