Unit ADE - EQUINE OPTHALMOLOGY
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A001143
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Rodolfo Gialletti
- Teachers
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- Rodolfo Gialletti
- Hours
- 25 ore - Rodolfo Gialletti
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2014
- Offered
- 2018/19
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline cliniche veterinarie
- 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 ophthalmology to be developed on didactic horses and/or on anatomical specimens.
- Reference texts
- Brian Gilger: Equine Ophthalmology.
Wiley Blackwell - Educational objectives
- Acquisition by the student in knowing how to manage and evaluate cases of ophthalmology from diagnosis to therapy
- 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 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
- Not applicable. This course considers only the presence at the professional course.
- Extended program
- In the ADE it is planned to teach and have the student do the ophthalmological visit on the horse. Evaluate intraocular pressure; perform various tests: fluorescein, rose bengal and green lissamine; know how to do an ocular ultrasound; examine the ocular fundus.
Evaluate possible injuries and establish medical or surgical treatment. Exercises on eyelids and eyes of cadaver.