21425 - Clinical Medicine and Medical Therapy of Pets

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to apply the knowledge for a correct procedural diagnostic iter, starting form medical history and physical examination. The student through the integration of clinical and collateral data will achieve a correct diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic protocol.

Course contents

It is a theoretical/practical course that completes the practice carried out in the internship at the Animal Hospital.

The student are guided to apply the knowledge and skills acquired from the lessons of previous years (particularly the topics of Clinical Methodology, Semeiotics and Medical Pathology) in order to achieve the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutical ability.

The student will be guided to the correct approach of clinical problems, and will stimulate to seek the symptoms of a specific disease as well as those aspects that deviate from the general laws.

In addition the student, at the end of the course, will be able to define a correct therapeutical plan about the main internal diseases of pets.

The goal of the course is the education of the students through the direct examination of clinical cases, comprehending the collection of anamnesis, clinical findings and the indication of a correct diagnostic plan.

Readings/Bibliography

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

NELSON-COUTO
Medicina interna del cane e del gatto
4th ed., Elsevier-Masson, October 2010

SJ Ettinger, FG Feldman

TEXTBOOK of Veterinary Internal Medicine 7 ed SAUNDER

Teaching methods

At the end of the course the students are given the tools and skill necessary to perform all the clinical procedure, in a context of interdisciplinarity, to achieve the diagnosis and to set the most appropriate treatment protocol and the correct prognosis.

The procedures start from the collection and interpretation of the history and signalment, and follow through the detection of clinical signs (remainders of methodology and clinical semeiotics) and complete through the diagnostic procedures (imaging, laboratory medicine, histopathology etc), interpreting the results in order to complete the diagnostic plan and develop the therapeutical procedure.

The clinical case will be an example for the student in order acquire the diagnostic method.

Assessment methods

The student have to present a clinical report on a clinical case observed at the Veterinary Animal Hospital, that will discuss during the examination. Outgoing Erasmus student will describe the clinical cases collected at the host structure.

The case report must be presented also by those students who have to take the exam only for part related to the Tirocinio (including Erasmus students). The case report must be sent by e-mail (paolo.famigli@unibo.it [mailto:paolo.famigli@unibo.it] ) at least one month before the date of the first appeal useful to take the exam (according to these examples: if the first appeal in which you want to take the examination falls on March 15, the case report must be received by 24.00 on February 14, if it falls on June 18 must be received by 24.00 on May 17, etc. ..). The case report has to be sent only one time, since it is valid to all the future dates of the examination.

The exam comprehend the physical examination of a dog or cat, the discussion of the clinical report, the execution of a process of differential diagnosis and the setting of a adequate treatment

Teaching tools

Lectures will focus on clinical cases admitted at the Veterinary Animal Hospital. All the systems (digestive, respiratory, cardiologic, neurologic etc) will be approach through the main symptoms (anemia, jaundice, hemorrhage, vomiting, diarroea, polyuria/polydipsia etc).

Each clinical case will be assigned to 3 or 4 students that will follow the diagnostic and therapeutical plan. The students will encouraged to deepen the arguments by the analysis of literature.

Office hours

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