2023/24
28441 - Clinical Practice: Small, Exotic and Equine Animals
Compulsory
1. General information
The subject is designed to enable the student to apply, in a real professional context, the knowledge and skills acquired in previous years regarding the clinical practice of the species whose individual pathologies are treated by the veterinarian: equids, canids, felids and exotics. It is developed in the context of the last year of the Degree, an ideal moment to develop, under appropriate supervision, a first clinical experience.
These approaches and objectives are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030(https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/) 3,4,5,8 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16, so that the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides training and competence to contribute to some extent to their achievement.
Students have all the information available in the following links, as well as in the ADD (Anillo Digital Docente) of each of the subjects:
https://veterinaria.unizar.es/estudiantes/formacion-prevencion-riesgos-y-seguridad#normas
http://patologiaanimal.unizar.es/medidas-de-seguridad
2. Learning results
In order to pass this subject, the students shall demonstrate they has acquired the following results:
1. To know how to take the history and clinical examination of patients of canine, feline, equine and main groups of exotic species.
2. To know how to perform differential diagnoses including the most common diseases of dogs, cats, horses and main exotic species, choosing the necessary complementary diagnostic techniques.
3. To know how to collect and submit the most common samples, with their corresponding report. 4. To know how to interpret the results of basic analytical techniques.
5. To know how to perform and interpret the diagnostic imaging tests used in the most frequent pathologies in these species.
6. To know how to perform and interpret necropsy results of these species.
7. To know how to attend emergencies and perform first aid on dogs, cats and horses.
8. To know how to indicate the most common medical and surgical treatments for these species, as well as the necessary hospital care.
9. To know how to anesthetize and provide analgesia to canine, feline and equine patients.
10. To know how to perform the most common surgical techniques (surgical sterilization in dogs/cats) and to how to manage and assist, in the surgical environment.
11. To know how to identify a horse as well as the main pathologies of the horse's locomotor system.
12. To know the most common surgical techniques on the extremities of the horse as well as to perform the main head blocks and know the main surgical pathologies of the head.
13. To know how to search for and manage clinical information and know how to transmit it to other professionals.
5. Assessment system
5. Assessment System
The evaluation will be done by blocks, with the following % in the calculation of the final grade:
Block 1 (40%) will be assessed through
The teacher may ask the student questions to check that they has reviewed the basic knowledge to make the most of the practice and will evaluate the attitude in consultation by means of a rubric (5%)
The student must keep a notebook for recording cases and choose five of them from among all the specialties to prepare a report (5%). This assignment will be registered in Moodle, which will be a necessary requirement to be able to take the written exam.
Assessed learning results 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 13
Assessed learning results 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8.
Block 2 (25%) will be assessed through
On the first day of practice of this block, all students will be evaluated on theoretical and practical knowledge of basic aspects of surgery and anesthesia. These can be found in the Teaching Digital Ring (ADD) ( http://moodle.unizar.es). During the presentation of the subject, students will be advised to review this content prior to the practical sessions as part of their personal work and will be made aware of the fact that they will be evaluated on it. With this objective, the teacher will carry out a theoretical-practical evaluation that will allow they to assess the basic knowledge and skills necessary to take advantage of the practice.
Students will be evaluated during the development of the last practice. Each student will be assessed using a rubric to verify that they have acquired learning results 9, 10 and 13.
Block 3 (5%) will be assessed through:
The student will make an individual report of the cases dealt with during the week of the practices, which will be presented at the end of the practices and evaluated by the teacher.
It will be evaluated by means of written exam, which will account for 4.5% of the final grade and will take place together with the written exam of block 1.
The exam will consist of questions on clinical cases related to emergency, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospitalization protocols explained in the practices that the student will have been able to practice voluntarily during on-call shifts.
Assessed learning results 7 and 11.
Block 4 (5%) will be assessed through:
Block 4 will be evaluated by means of a written exam, which will account for 5% of the final grade. The exam will consist of necropsy cases. Learning results assessed: 6
Block 5 (25%) will be assessed through:
It will consist of questions on the identification and basic radiology seminars given, as well as practice with biomodels (transrectal palpation on cadavers, nerve blocks and main interventions on the head and surgical techniques on extremities). Assessed learning results 10, 11, and 12.
For blocks 1, 2, 3 and 5, the student must submit to the Coordinator the signature sheet completed by the teachers as proof that they has attended the practices.
Assessment criteria and levels of demand
It will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 40% of the grade of each of the blocks in order for them to average with the rest. That is, a minimum of:
12 points out of the 30 points of the evaluation (written exam) of block 1
10 points out of the 25 points of the evaluation of block 2
2 points out of the 5 points of the evaluation of block 3
2 points out of the 5 points of the evaluation of block 4
10 points out of the 25 points of the evaluation of block 5
In case of not reaching the minimum grade in any of the blocks or if the average does not reach 50% of the final grade, the student will keep the grade of the blocks passed during the whole academic year, having to take an exam only for those activities they has not passed.
Attendance to 90% of the practices is compulsory. Otherwise, the student must take the global test,
which will account for 100% of the final grade. It will be a global theoretical and practical evaluation test in which they will have to solve clinical cases of the different species and specialties object of the subject.
Grading system: the usual grading system at the University of Zaragoza.