03811 - Surgical Veterinary Medicine

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module the student knows the basics of general surgery and the methods of execution for the surgical procedures on the soft tissues most frequently requested in professional practice; is capable of conducting simple surgery as a first surgeon.

Course contents

http://corsi.unibo.it/singlecycle/VeterinaryMedicine/course-units-syllabi-and-day-one-competences

General surgery is part of the integrated course 03811 - Semeiotics, Surgical Pathology, Anesthesiology and General Surgery. Prof. Monika Joechler, is responsible for recording the final evaluation of the integrated course.

Educational aim of the Integrated Course (IC). The IC aims to provide the student with:

• the etiopathogenetic and symptomatological bases of surgical diseases in large and companion animals in order to formulate a correct diagnostic protocol;
• the basic anesthetic and surgical notions transversal to the different species
• the appropriate terminology in order to communicate properly with clients, professional colleagues and responsible authorities

Competences of a Veterinary surgeon includes ability to perform surgical operations following the rules of asepsis and having the skillness to do them. Goal of the course is giving to the student a specific preparation on animal handling, instrumentation, suture material properties before knowing the details of the specific surgical techniques.

This course gives to the student the knowledge about basics of surgery (animal handling, dieresis, exeresis, surgical environments and organization, instrumentation and its proper use, suture material and pattern. The most common surgeries in all the domestic species are explained

The Syllabus of the course unit and the list of EAEVE Day One Competences that the course unit contributes to achieving can be viewed on the dedicated page

Readings/Bibliography

Slides on website http://campus.cib.unibo.it

Recommended readings:

Auer – Equine surgery 4^th ed. Saunders 2012

Slatter – Small animal surgery, Saunders 2008

Fubini Ducharme – Large animal surgery Lea Febiger 2006

TOBIAS-JOHNSTON - Veterinary surgery: small animal. 2-volume set -Elsevier,2012

Kudnig and Séguin – Veterinary surgical oncology - Wiley-Blackwell 2012

T.W. Fossum – Chirurgia dei piccoli animali - 5th edition _ EV 2021

Teaching methods

1. academic (frontal) with a general part that includes the description of all the manouvres from the beginning to the end of a surgical intervention (such as animal handling, sterilization and disinfection, knowledge of surgical instruments, diaeresis and tissue exeresis, haemostasis, tissue synthesis, wound treatment, bandages and the use of drainages) and a special part includes a description of the most frequent surgical procedures in the abdominal and thoracic cavity that are offered to the profession in general and oncological surgery.

1. practical (tutorial supervised or “hands on”)

students are selected in four groups with the same number of hours of practical teaching on 6 topics. Aim of this part of the course is to obtain an individual manual surgical skillness, especially on the execution of tissue sutures

Assessment methods

The evaluation of this course is included with the other of the Integrated Course n° 03811 Surgical semeiotics and pathology, anesthesiology and general surgery in a single vote.

The evaluation of the general surgery test ranges from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude.

The evaluation of this course is based on an oral exam, on the whole program and on a simultaneous practical part to verify the knowledge of the surgical instruments and the manual skills achieved such as the execution of tissue sutures. In addition, the practical part makes use of videos that reproduce the various surgeries

Office hours

See the website of Luciano Pisoni