Unit CLINICAL WORK IN VTH ADVANCED COURSE
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- 85036501
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesco Porciello
- Teachers
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- Francesco Porciello
- Hours
- 25 ore - Francesco Porciello
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Altro
- Area
- Altre conoscenze utili per l'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro
- Academic discipline
- NN
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course takes place within the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital facilities. Students are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics carried out both on pets than on horses as well as food producing animals.
Activities take place in shifts defined as: a) day shift from 8:00 am to 16:00 b) evening shift from 16.00 to 24.00 c) night shift from 24.00 at 9.00
Each student, guided by tutors and professors working in OVUD, are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities that take place on the animals visiting or admitted to OVUD. The activities are different depending on the day time slot, evening or night and include visits, specialist medical scans, applying medical therapies, surgical and obstetric, emergency management in the emergency department, monitoring of the clinical condition of the hospitalized animals. - Reference texts
- Students are required to interact with the Teacher through the UNISTUDIUM portal of the University where, in the space devoted to this course, together with suggestions, recommendations and guidelines given by the Teacher, teaching materials are available in the form of assigned assignments.
The questions, requests and any explanations on particular cases can be made by the Students through the Teaching Forum contained in the Unistudium portal - Educational objectives
- The planned activities are essentially practical, and therefore it is expected that the students acquire practical skills on the physical exam of the sick animals, in the practical management of hospitalized animals in applying the main instrumental diagnostic tests in drug and medical therapeutic maneuvers, surgical and obstetric. In any case the "red week advanced course" only represents a small part (25 hours) of the time allotted for the teaching practice of the course of studies in veterinary medicine and is designed to allow students to experience an initial "full immersion" into reality veterinary hospital. This experience represents the continuation of the "red week basic course" in which the student was able to touch the animal sick initial approach by collecting medical history questioning the owner and doing the exam overall objective. The minimum learning objective for the "red week advanced course" is the ability to perform particular physical examinations of the individual apparatusesRegarding the descriptors of the didactic objectives, the course can be summarized as follows:
D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The student must
- have knowledge of the clinical methods of approaching the sick animal through questioning the owner, observing the animal and identifying particular signs of disease and involvement of different systems;
- know the methods of particular objective examination of the individual systems in the sick animal and the methods of clinical monitoring;
- know the characteristics and methods of use of the instrumental and imaging diagnostic equipment of greatest diffusion in the veterinary field (e.g. radiology, ultrasound, echocardiograph, electrocardiograph, biomedical parameters monitoring units, analysis laboratory equipment, administration equipment of drugs and to apply ordinary or intensive therapies etc.)
D2 - ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training, the student must:
- know how to perform the particular physical examination of the individual systems of the sick animal;
- know how to use the results of instrumental tests to confirm the diagnostic suspicion and quantify the severity of the disease;
- knowing how to administer the prescribed drugs;
- know how to take blood and other biological materials;
- know how to monitor the animal's clinical conditions.
D3 - AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- describe and quantify the changes detectable in the particular physical examination of the different systems;
- judge and quantify changes in clinical conditions being monitored;
D4 - COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- produce a report on the animals visited and actively participate in clinical briefings by discussing with people of the same level of preparation, presenting their evaluations supported by appropriate arguments;
- demonstrate language skills in both written and oral form, as well as the ability to use sufficiently appropriate terminology for a correct approach to the vocational subjects of the fifth year of the course
D5 - LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student must be able to:
- set up a professional interview methodology with teachers, pet owners and colleagues engaged in clinical activity, such as to ensure the acquisition of always new useful information in clinical practice;
- possess a sufficiently broad mastery of the subject to guarantee an acceptable basis for continuing profitably in the study of professional clinical subjects of the fifth year of the course - Prerequisites
- The knowledge that a student must possess at the beginning of the activities planned for this course are derived from the "red week basic course" and the teachings characteristic of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics.
To draw from this teaching the maximum profit it is important that the student knows the etiology, pathology and symptoms of major diseases of small animals and horses. - Teaching methods
- Direct participation, under the supervision of structured and unstructured teachers and veterinarians, for clinical activities in OVUD
- Other information
- To be admitted to attend the course, you must have the following certificates and requirements:
- Attendance of course on Legislative Decree 81/2008;
- To be covered with anti-tetanical vaccination and present the up-to-date certification, issued by the ASL in charge, at the Didactic Secretariat (Polo Didattico Veterinaria Medicina Veterinaria); - Learning verification modality
- There is no evaluation in the form of a test, but each student is required to prepare a detailed report on the activity carried out which also includes a general and particular objective examination plan of a chosen clinical case. Of all the cases listed in the report, the SIOVUD code that is composed of the current year and four digits (ex: 2017-9999) must be reported. This report must be compiled on UNISTUDIUM according to the instructions given in the assigned tasks section. The teacher evaluates the report and assigns a score in thirtieths that aims to indicate to the student the value of what is produced but does not have the value of an exam grade. The student's eligibility is assessed during the course of the teaching's own practical activities and on the basis of the presented report. The verbalization of the eligibility is performed periodically for the group of students who have reached the required number of hours. The Tutor of the activity will collect the attendance sheets of those who have completed all 3 shifts, log-books and booklets one vote a week (Friday morning at 12) at the acceptance of the OVUD. The booklets and logbooks will be returned to the respective Students on the following Friday at the same venue and same time.
- Extended program
- The course takes place within the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital facilities. Students are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the departments of Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics carried out both on pets than on horses.
Activities take place in shifts defined as: a) day shift from 8:00 am to 16:00 b) evening shift from 16.00 to 24.00 c) night shift from 24.00 at 9.00
Each student, guided by tutors and professors working in OVUD, are directly involved in clinical-diagnostic and therapeutic activities that take place on the animals visiting or admitted to OVUD. The activities are different depending on the day time slot, evening or night and include visits, specialist medical scans, applying medical therapies, surgical and obstetric, emergency management in the emergency department, monitoring of the clinical condition of the hospitalized animals.
During the practical activities the student interacts with the veterinary staff of the OVUD and also discusses the theoretical aspects concerning the cases under observation.
During the clinical activities the Student must be available and then collaborate with the Veterinary staff in the compilation of the clinical cards on the SIOVUD system.
Every Monday morning, weekday, from 8:00 to 8:45 the course tutor is available at the OVUD acceptance for explanations concerning the use of the SIOVUD system to all Students who are about to start their shifts in the immediately following period.