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 2017
- Offered
- 2018/19
- 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 aplication of the main non conventional therapeutic modalities in veterinary medicine: acupuncture, phisical rehabilitation, omeopathy, phytotherapy, nutraceuticals, stem cell therapy.
- Reference texts
- PDFs available on "Unistudium" platform.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to introduce students to the existence of therapeutic techniques that go beyond the parmacologic treatments, and to let them acquire basic knowledge on the mode of action and the possible applications of these tecniques in veterinary medicine.
- Prerequisites
- To better undertend the concepts delivered in this module, knowledge on animal anatomy and physiology are recommended.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:- Supervised discussions within small student's groups on the topics listed in the program.
- 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). Omeopathy and omotoxicology: mode of action and fields of applications (2 h). Phytotherapy and floriterapy: mode of action and fields of applications (2 h). Clinical cases (from diagnosis to therapy): application of non conventional therapy in various clinical conditions (15 h - SDL).