Unit ADE - DEEPENING IN EQUINE ORTHOPEDICS
- Course
- Veterinary medicine
- Study-unit Code
- A003637
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesca Beccati
- Teachers
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- Francesca Beccati
- Hours
- 25 ore - Francesca Beccati
- CFU
- 1
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Academic discipline
- VET/09
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- ENGLISH
- Contents
- The ADE foresees the carrying out of practical activity of diagnostic and orthopedic surgery to be developed on didactic horses and/or on anatomical specimens.
- Reference texts
- Murray: Equine MRI, first edition, Wiley Publishing Auer: Equine Surgery, IV edition Saunders Ed. ISBN 0 7216 2860 5 Baxter GM: Adam's lameness in the horse. 7th edition. Wiley.
- Educational objectives
- D1 - KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ABILITY
The student have to:
- know the correct diagnostic path from orthopedic disease
- know the correct surgical plan
D2 - ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- how to approach and evaluate in a practical view equine orthopedic cases from the diagnosis to the medical and surgical treatments
D3 - AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- know how to apply the diagnostic and therapeutic planning the main equine orthopaedic disease
D4 - COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- know how to report to an appropriate audience the reasons for the diagnostic and therapeutic planning in the management of equine orthopedics disease
D5 - LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of the training, the student will be able to:
- consult and understand scientific test, literature update and orthopedics case reports - Prerequisites
- In order to understand and to apply the procedures required in this course, it is necessary to have passed the exams of Veterinary Surgical Semiotics and Pathology. For some topics the ability to interpret basic radiographic projections and ultrasound imaging of the limb of the horse will be required to pass the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- The ADE is organized as follows: practical training sessions will take place in the OVUD clinics. Depending on the number of students, they will be divided into two groups. While one group carries out the practical part—which varies by day and lasts two hours—the other group will follow a theoretical session using teaching materials (slides), focusing on the steps to be taken when approaching clinical case scenarios. The aim is to correctly apply the diagnostic and/or surgical procedures learned during their studies. Each session lasts two hours. The case scenarios will be discussed with the instructor.
- 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
- Final discussion with the students. Discussion of power points about previously assigned clinical cases, in order to assess the methods of approach to the clinical case and the knowledge acquired during ADE in relation to etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy For information about support services for students with disabilities and/or specific learning disorders (DSA), please visit the webpage: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- The ADE includes practical activities in orthopedic diagnostics, to be carried out on anatomical specimens and on phantoms prepared by the instructor. It also involves the use of radiographic, ultrasonographic, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans previously obtained from documented clinical cases, accompanied by photos and videos and made available to the students. Students will perform intra-articular diagnostic anesthetic injections with contrast medium to verify correct placement, and perineural blocks using methylene blue, which will be evaluated through subsequent dissection. Students will also describe and interpret the images by writing a clinical report. Additionally, they will perform ultrasound-guided procedures on phantoms and acquire MRI scans on specimens.