| Course title | Clinical Rotation III |
| Course code | VeteP025 |
| Credit points (ECTS) | 24 |
| Total Hours in Course | 648 |
| Independent study hours | 648 |
| Date of course confirmation | 02/03/2016 |
| Responsible Unit | Clinical Institute |
| Course developers | |
| Dr. med. vet., doc. Armands Vekšins |
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| Prior knowledge | |
| Vete3026, Special Pathology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine II Vete4018, Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics II Vete4019, Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics III Vete4022, Large Animal Surgery II Vete4024, Small Animal Surgery II Vete4045, Epidemiology Vete4049, Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases II Vete4097, Farm Animal Reproduction II Vete4099, Small Animal Internal Medicine II Vete4100, Animal Postmortem Necropsies Vete4101, Radiology II Vete4105, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology I Vete4108, Infectious Diseases II Vete4113, Surgery Techniques and Topographical Anatomy II Vete4114, Anesthesiology and Emergency Vete6038, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology II Vete6039, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology III Vete6040, Internal Medicine, Herd Health III VeteP022, Clinical Rotation I VeteP024, Clinical Rotation II |
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| Course abstract | |
| Intramural practice. During rotations, students shadow physicians at teaching hospital and farms, have access to patients, and gain valuable hands-on experience. | |
| Learning outcomes and their assessment | |
| Knowledges: of laboratorial tests and diagnostic imaging, most common diseases etiology, pathogenesis and treatment. Assessment – tests in practice all blocks.
Skills: to do clinical and diagnostic imaging examinations, set diagnosis, treatment and recommendations. Assessment – evaluating practical work. Competence: select correct diagnostic tests and treatment, herd health evaluation. Assessment – tests in practice all blocks and evaluating a practical work. |
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| Course Content(Calendar) | |
| 1.Small animal internal medicine. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, clinical case analysis.
2.Small animal surgery. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, clinical case analysis. 3.Equine medicine. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, clinical case analysis. 4.Large animal medicine. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, clinical case analysis. 5.Mobile clinic. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, clinical case analysis. 6.Patological examination. Three weeks. Theoretical lessons, practical works, test, case analysis. 7.Clinical rotation practice final work. Two weeks. |
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| Requirements for awarding credit points | |
| Pass all requirements in all clinical rotation practice blocks and defended final work. | |
| Description of the organization and tasks of students’ independent work | |
| During a practice students must write a final work (Clinical rotation practice thesis). | |
| Criteria for Evaluating Learning Outcomes | |
| Study course tests and final work are evaluated in accordance with the criteria of the 10 point system scale indicated in the LLU Study Regulations. To get a final grade of Clinical rotation practice student must pass all tests and final work (Clinical rotation practice thesis). Final grade consists of average mark of all practice rotation blocks and final work mark (50% of final grade). | |
| Compulsory reading | |
| 1.Nelson R.W., Couto Guillermo C. Small Animal Internal Medicine. Canada: Elsevier, 2014. 1473 p. 2.Anjou M., Penninck D., Atlas of Small animal ultrasonography. Singapore: Blackwele Publishing, 2008. 511 p. 3.Brūvers Z. Mājdzīvnieku anatomija: mācību grāmata. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds, 2007. 783 lpp. 4.Dirksen G, Grunder H.-D., Grunert E., Stober M, Mack R., Clinical Examination of Cattle. Berlin, 1979. 453 p. 5.Ettinger J.S., Feldman E.C. Textbook of veterinary internal medicine. Vol 1. Canada: Saunders Elsevier 2010. 1983 p. | |
| Further reading | |
| - | |
| Periodicals and other sources | |
| LLU Fundamentālās bibliotēkas datu bāzes. | |
| Notes | |
| Compulsory course of study program Veterinary medicine in 12th semester. | |