35597 - Semeiotics and Internal Medicine of Large Animal

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8206)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course sudent is able to deal with a clinical case related to a farm animal. Moreover he is able to recognize the most important diseases of farm animals and to link them with the most important clinical findings .

Course contents

Clinical findings and principal diseases of the following system:

digestive tract;

respiratory tract;

cardiac and circolatory system;

nervous system;

tegumentary system;

urinary  system.

Clinical findings and pathological aspects of the metabolic diseases.

Readings/Bibliography

A.Messieri e B.Moretti. Semiologia e Diagnostica Medica Veterinaria. Libreria Universitaria Tinarelli, 1963.

"Medicina interna e chirurgia del bovino" (Dirksen, Gruender, Stoeber), Le Point Veterinaire (2004).

"Veterinary medicine", 10th edition (Radostits, Gay, Kenneth, Hinchliff, Constable, Saunders Ltd (2007)

Teaching methods

Lessons and practicals

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Caseload referred to the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences and pictures/videos.

Office hours

See the website of Arcangelo Gentile