Unit ADE - Non conventional medicine: scientific bases and possible applications
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A000669
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giorgia Della Rocca
- Teachers
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- Giorgia Della Rocca
- Hours
- 25 ore - Giorgia Della Rocca
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/07
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Principles of action and therapeutical application of the main non conventional therapeutic modalities in veterinary medicine: phisical rehabilitation, phytotherapy and micotherapy, acupuncture, omeopathy and omotoxicology.
- Reference texts
- PDFs available on "Unistudium" platform.
- Educational objectives
- D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABILITY
The student must acquire basic knowledge related to:
- principles of physical rehabilitation techniques
- principles of acupuncture
- principles of herbal medicine and aromatherapy
- principles of homeopathy and homotoxicology
D2 - ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training activity the student must have the necessary bases to be able to make a reasoned choice for setting up appropriate unconventional therapeutic protocols, to be used in veterinary clinical practice instead of - or in association with the traditional ones, in view of an extension the therapeutic possibilities at his disposal.
D3 - AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
At the end of the training the student must be able to set up appropriate non-conventional therapeutic protocols to be adopted in the veterinary clinical practice, being able to distinguish among the various possibilities in order to apply the most suitable in the presented pathological condition, in view the most correct patient management.
D4 - COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- know how to organize, prepare and exhibit, to an audience made up of people of equal level of preparation, a presentation on a non conventional technique with its own evaluations supported by appropriate arguments;
- support an adversarial process with people of equal preparation and experts in different issues, of a regulatory, scientific, procedural and / or technological nature;
- demonstrate language properties in both written and oral form, as well as the ability to use terminology that is sufficiently appropriate for a correct approach to the profession, which is also important for job interviews.
D5 - LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training the student will be able to:
- consult and understand scientific texts, even innovative ones, bibliographic updates, normative dictations, in such a way as to employ them in contexts not only usual for the profession, including research, but also originals;
- possess a sufficiently broad mastery of the subject to guarantee an acceptable basis for continuing professional updating throughout life, through ongoing lifelong learning. - Prerequisites
- To better understand the concepts delivered in this module, knowledge on animal anatomy and physiology are recommended.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Lectures on the main topics of the course.
- Supervised discussions within small student's groups on the topics listed in the program.
- Self-directed learning (SDL) activity: preparation and description of clinical cases based on on-line research and material provided by the teacher. - Learning verification modality
- Multiple-choice test on course topics or brief report (eg. clinical case).
- Extended program
- Non-conventional medicine: its applicability in Veterinary Medicine (2 h). Acupuncture): mode of action and fields of applications (2 h). Phisical rehabilitation): mode of action and fields of applications (2 h). Phytotherapy and micotherapy): mode of action and fields of applications (2 h), homeopathy and homotoxicology (2 h): mode of action and fields of applications.
Clinical cases (from diagnosis to therapy): application of non conventional therapy in various clinical conditions (15 h - SDL).