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Course title	Internal Medicine, Herd Health III
Course code	Vete6040
Credit points (ECTS)	4.5
Total Hours in Course	121.5
Number of hours for lectures	24
Number of hours for seminars and practical classes	36
Independent study hours	60
Date of course confirmation	22/11/2017
Responsible Unit	Clinical Institute
Course developers
Dr. med. vet., asoc. prof. Ilga Šematoviča Dr. med. vet., asoc. prof. Laima Liepa First-cycle professional higher education(līm.), pasn. Dana Laizāne
Prior knowledge
Ķīmi1028, Inorganic Chemistry Ķīmi3004, Biochemistry Vete2013, Anatomy of the Domestic Animals I Vete2014, Anatomy of the Domestic Animals II Vete2015, Anatomy of the Domestic Animals III Vete2016, Animal and Environmental Hygiene I Vete2017, Animal and Environmental Hygiene II Vete2018, Animal and Environmental Hygiene III Vete4019, Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics III Vete4036, General Pathology I Vete4037, General Pathology II Vete4078, Internal Medicine, Herd Health I Vete4104, Forage Production and Animal Nutrition III Vete4105, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology I Vete4109, Internal Medicine, Herd Health II Vete4110, Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics I Vete4111, Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics II Vete6022, Physiology I Vete6023, Physiology II
Replaced course
VeteB022 [GVETB022] Internal Medicine, Herd Health III
Course abstract
In this course students learn definitions of internal diseases, epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, and clinical signs of diseases, diagnosis principles, prognosis, diseases treatment and prevention options. In the general part of this study course is review of internal diseases pathophysiology, diagnostic and treatment principles, and after general part an in – depth review disease characteristics of each species. In the Heard health part students learn how to assess health of the livestock and how to deal with problems in the heard, taking into account economic considerations
Learning outcomes and their assessment
Knowledge: of diseases causes, pathogenesis, clinical findings, treatment and prophylaxis of diseases; knowledge of clinical examination methods; knowledge of collection of anamnesis data, about application of clinical symptoms and results of laboratory analyses in the differential diagnosis of disease and about limitations of application of treated animal products in human nutrition; Tests (5) Skills: to communicate effectively with clients, to collect anamnesis data, to interpret results of clinical and laboratory examination for differentiation diagnosis of diseases, to establish diagnosis, providing first aid. Skills to perform herd health control, to detect herd health problems and recognize causes of them in production animal unites; to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team in animal production unit; Tests (5); individually prepared CCRA work; Competent: to explain the pathogenesis of diseases; to establish diagnosis; to create a treatment plan of different diseases. Tests (5); Student’s presentation of CCRA work.
Course Content(Calendar)
1. Introduction. Planning a herd health visit. Lameness control. 2. Control of a feeding quality and metabolic disorders. Control of calf health. 3. Control of reproduction performance, milking hygiene and mastitis problem. 4. Welfare and biosecurity control. Control of infectious and parasitic diseases. 5. Sheep and goat herds’ health control. 6. Farm visit to a cow herd. A herd health control. Collection of materials for the individual CCRA work. 7. Farm visit to a sheep or goat herd. A herd health control. Collection of materials for the individual CCRA work. 8. Respiratory diseases of horses. Upper respiratory diseases. 9. Respiratory diseases of horses. Pneumonia. Pleuropneumonia. Asthma syndrome. 10. Cardiovascular diseases of horses. Congenital and acquired heart diseases. Arrhythmia. 11. Gastrointestinal diseases of horses. Colics. Obstructive colics. Gastric ulcers’ syndrome. Enteritis, colitis. 12. Endocrine diseases of horses. Myopathies. Cushing syndrome. Metabolic syndrome. Hyperlipemia. Hyperlipidemia. Laminitis. 13. Skin diseases of horses. Cellulitis. Lymphangitis. 14. Internal Medicine of pigs. Diseases of piglets. Diseases of fattening pigs. Diseases of breeding pigs. 15. Gastrointestinal diseases of pigs: gastritis, enteritis, gastric ulcers. Respiratory diseases of pigs; bronchopneumonia. Metabolic disorders. Skin diseases. Total: 24 lectures and 36 hours of practical work.
Requirements for awarding credit points
Five tests (1- with herd health problems analyze – in Herd Health, 1 – in Pig diseases and 3 – in Horse diseases), CCRA work and its presentation must be scored with a successful grade in order to get an access to the final exam of the courses “Internal Medicine, Herd Health II and III”. Absence of practical work is not more than 30% of the total number of lessons. If missed practical works are more than 30% of the total number of lessons, then the course must be repeated. In the exam at the end of the course Internal Medicine, Herd Health III are included the test and a written analyze of one clinical case. The final exam must be passed with successful grade.
Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work
The aim is to learn independently how to obtain information from the recommended veterinary literature, websites about herd health problems for preparing individual CCRA work, and develop the problem solving plan. Students must to analyze independently results of clinical and laboratory examination of the patients (on farm visits, FVM clinic); independently develop a treatment and prevention plan; independently prepare and present the Power Point presentation of CCRA work.
Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes
Students' knowledge and skills are assessed in accordance with the procedures specified in the tasks of the practical works. Tests, CCRA work with a “Power point” presentation and the final exam are evaluated in accordance with the 10 points system scale criteria indicated in the LLU Study Regulations.
Compulsory reading
1. Radostits O.M., Gay C.C., Hinchcliff K.W., Constable P.D. A text book of the diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and goats. - 10nd ed. - Edinburg: Saunders, Elsevier, 2008. 1548 p. 2. Radostitis O. M. Herd Health: Food Production Animal Medicine. 3rd Edition, Saunders, 2001. 885 p. 3. Radositis O.M., Blood D.C., Gay C.C. Veterinary Medicine. 10-th edition- Bailliere Tindall, 2006- 1435 p. 4. Bradford P. Smith. Large Animal Internal Medicine. 46h Edition, Williams & Wilkins. 2002. 1735 p. 5. S. Reed, W. Bayly, D. Sellon. Saunders, Equine Internal Medicine. 4th edition, 2017. 6. T. Mair, S. Love, J. Schumacher, R. Smith, G. Frazer. Saunders, Equine Medicine, Surgery and Reproduction. 2nd edition, 2011. 7. B. Rush, T. Mair. Wiley-Blackwell, Equine Respiratory diseases, 2008. 8. L. Couetil, j. Hawkin, Respiratory Diseases of the Horse. CRC press, 2013. 9. C. Marr, M. Bowen. Saunders, Cardiology of the Horse. 2nd edition, 2010.
Further reading
1. Kahn M.C., Line S. The Merck Veterinary Manual. 2010 2. Meyer D., Harvey J.W. Veterinary Laboratory Medicine: Interpretation and Diagnosis. 3rd ed. 2004. – 532 lpp. 3. H.R.Adams. Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics Jowa State University Press / AMES. 7-th ed. 1995.- 1181 p.
Periodicals and other sources
1.Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN:1939-1676 2.The Veterinary Journal, ISSN:1090-0233 3. Equine Veterinary Education. Wiley Blackwell, ISSN:2042-3292. 4. Equine Veterinary Journal. Wiley Blackwell, ISSN: 2042-3306.
Notes
The compulsory course name of the study programme Veterinary medicine is: Internal Medicine, Herd Health III (course code: Vete 6040)