Unit GROSS PATHOLOGY OF FOOD-PRODUCING ANIMALS
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A001652
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Elvio Lepri
- Teachers
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- Elvio Lepri
- Hours
- 25 ore - Elvio Lepri
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2015
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course provides the basic skills to interpret gross lesions most commonly observed during the farm animal (bovine, ovine, caprine, swine) practice and to apply the knowledges into an integrated diagnostic algoritm form necropsy to ancillary tests.
- Reference texts
- Di Marco Lopresti Vincenzo; Capucchio Maria Teresa; Mignacca Sebastian Alessandro; Guarda Franco. Atlante di Patologia Ovina e Caprina . Genoma Editore 2012
Claus D Buergelt, Edward G Clark, Fabio Del Piero. Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas. CABI 2018
Zimmermann JJ, Karriker LA, Ramirez A, Schwartz K, Stevenson GW, Zhang J. Diseases of swine. 11th ed. Wiley 2019 - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide the student with basic knowledge to construct a anatomopathological diagnostic algorithm for the main syndromes affecting farm animals.
At the end of the course the student will know:
- the main gross features of the lesions affecting respiratory, gastrointestinal and genital systems.
At the end of the course the student will acquire ability to:
- establish a diagnostic algorithm and appropriate ancillary tests to differentiate among diseases with similar pathological findings.
- interpetate the results of laboratory tests (cytology, histology, bacteriology, serology, molecular biology) in order to distinguish among the diseases that are in differential diagnosis - Prerequisites
- Although there are no compulsory propedeuticities according to
regulation, it is strongly advised that the student attending the course
has already sat the examinations of veterinary pathology and special
pathology and veterinary medical pathology - Teaching methods
- The course is organized with frontal lectures aimed to introduce the argument of discussion (20%), team-work to examine study-cases prepared by the teacher by vision of gross images, histological slides, laboratory test results and videos (40%) and collegial discussion of the cases (40%)
- Learning verification modality
- The course does not provide a final exam, as the current Learning
Organization. Therefore, the student's learning is individually tested with the reports of the cases provided and in the various steps of the diagnostic algorithm. - Extended program
- The course is divided into 5 days.
In day 1 ad introduction will be provided to field necropsy technique in farm animal practice, including sampling organs and tissues, and shipping to laboratory. Furthermore a colleague of the diagnostic section of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche will give details about diagnostic algoritms applied during the most common field scenarios (respiratory, enteric, nervous and reproductive syndromes).
From day 2 to day 5 an introductory first hour will be provided on the criteria of pathological diagnosis of enteric, respiratory, nervous and reproductive lesions; then the students will work in groups for two hours on simulated cases; in the last two hours, the cases will be discussed together with the teacher.