- Docente: Gualtiero Gandini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8617)
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed to provide the student with the cultural and
operative tools to perform a thorough and complete physical examination focused to assess the health status of an animal.
At the end of the course:
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING - the student knows the different
methods and the equipment to perform a complete and thorough
physical examination
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING - the student is able
to:
- properly collect the data related to the signalament and
history;
- adequately approach an animal in order to warrant his own
safety and that of the patient;
- perform the correct manual procedures pertaining to the
physical examination of an animal;
- recognize, appreciate and collect the clinical signs;
- correctly perform the manual procedures necessary to
collect biologic samples for the necessary diagnostic investigation
LEARNING SKILLS, ABILITY OF MAKING JUDGEMENTS AND COMMUNICATION
SKILLS - the student is able to:
- solve the proposed problems through the exposition to real
clinical cases;
- communicate and share with the other students and with the
tutor her/his own inferences;
- utilize complementary resources available In situ (Portale
Didattico Veterinario, web-search systems and similars) to
solve the proposed problems.
Course contents
Prerequisites
The student, starting this course, should already have the
knowledge, and be able to use it in the different clinical
applications, the information related to the normal morphology and
physiology of the differnt organs and systems. The student should
also have know the fundamentals of the pathologic processes,
acquired through the study of the general pathology.
The student should have the knowledge and understading of the
spoken and written English language in oreder to be able to read
and understand the slides that the teacher may use and abstracts of
publications, textbooks and handbooks.
(Regolamento didattico: Art. 4 - Frequenza e
propedeuticita' -
http://www.vet.unibo.it/NR/rdonlyres/08E3C369-31C6-48AB-B63B-E5D3F367C01A/253007/RegolamentodidatticoCdS8618.pdf).
The course is aimed to provide the student with the
cultural and operative tools to perform a thorough and
complete clinical examination focused to assess the health status
of an animal.
The detailed syllabus of the course is downloadable at the
teacher's website ( http://www.unibo.it/docenti/gualtiero.gandini
)
Readings/Bibliography
The teaching material consists of the suggested textbooks (see below) and of the material put on the specific course website (http://campus.cib.unibo.it or website of the teacher responsible for the course: http://www.unibo.it/docenti/gualtiero.gandini ).
Specifically. the suggested textbooks are:
- Ciaramella P. (ed) - Semeiologia Clinica Veterinaria - Poletto Editore, 2013.
- Ettinger SJ, Feldman EC, eds. Textbook of Veterinary Internal
Medicine, 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders, 2010
- Nelson RW, Couto CG, eds Small Animal Internal Medicine,
4th ed. Philadelphia, Saunders, 2008
- "L'esame Clinico del Bovino", di G. Rosenberger, terza edizione a
cura di G. Dirksen, HD. Gruender, M. Stoeber, Edagricole,
1993;
- "Clinical Examination of Farm Animals", di P. Jackson e P
Cockcroft, Blackwell Publishing, 2002;
Teaching methods
The course is made of academic (frontal - 26 hours) and
practical lessons (10 x 4 hours)
a. Academic lessons
Academic lessons require close interaction between the teacher and
students and are organized with the aim to best represent the real
professional situation and environment of the veterinary
surgeon.
More precisely, the academic lessons are dedicated to the
explanation of the clinical approach to the patient using the
in-depth description of the items hereunder reported:
- procedures of direct semiology
- signalament and anamnesis
- Esame obiettivo generale (EOG) - General physical
examination
- Esame obiettivo particolare - Physical examination
of the different specific systems
- examples of algorythms according to the problem oriented
approach
b. Practical and “hands on" lessons
Practical lessons are held dividing the students in four groups of
about 25 students each, further divided in smaller groups of 4-6
students. The same hour of practical lesson is provided for each
major group
During practical lectures, students are obliged to wear a white coat and protective toecap footwear. Some practical sessions require a percussion hammer, 12 cm Klemmer, neurologic hammer and sthetoscope
The goals of the practical lessons are:
- making the student able to perform the practical procedures
of the physical examination (hands-on activity) - This
activity is focused to gain professional skills;
- develop the student's ability to recognize and collect the
clinical signs using either real cases from the Teaching Hospital .
Therefore, practical lessons consist in hands-on activity on the
live animal aimed to acquire the necessary manual skills;
Within the practical lessons, the teacher/tutor will
emphasize the importance and necessity of the team work, oriented
to the development of searching, learning, judgement and
communication skills.
Assessment methods
The final exam has the objective to evaluate the achievement of
the main learning outcomes:
- Ability to adequately and thoroughly collect the history of
the patient;
- Knowledge of the manual procedures of the clinical
examination o fan animal and ability to practically perform
them;
- Ability to detect and collect the clinical signs in a sick
animal;
The exam will focus on the topics related to the suyllabus of the last year.
The final mark of the integrated teaching course Metodologia, Patologia Clinica e Medicina Legale results from the mean of the marks obtained in the final evaluations of the single different parts that comprise the teaching course. The marks obtained in the different part of the exam do not expire. Since the course is an integrated Course, teh teacher responsible for the verbalization of the marks is prof. Gualtiero Gandini.
The evaluation of the student for the teaching course
Metodologia Clinica Veterinaria consists of a pratical part,
integrated with an oral part.
The goal of the practical part of the exam, performed on a
live animal, is to assess the achievement of an adequate skill in
the manual procedures necessary to perform a thorough physical
examination;
- This part of the exam is passed when the candidate
is able to perform correctly the required procedures.
- If the candidate is not able to adequately perform teh required manual procedures, the exam is NOT passed. The goal of the oral part of the exam is to assess the
achievement of the theoretical knowledge as detailed in the part
learning outcomes. This part of the exam is passed when the
candidate is able to correctly answer a maximum of two main questions concerning the topics
discussed during the course. The mark will include the oral and practical assessment.
- The evaluation of the candidate may include other
minor questions related to the topics of the two main
questions.
- It's considered extremely important that the
candidate has the knowledge of the relevant information acquired in
the previous teaching courses (prerequisites), and specifically
those pertaining the physiological function of the different
systems of the body, as well as those related with the principal
physiopathological mechanisms of dysfunction.
- When evaluating the candidate's answers, the
examiners will put specific relevance in evaluating the
achievement of a logic-deductive methodology in the
discussion of the topics of the questions.
- During the exam is not allowed the use of any
support material, such as textbooks, nots, notebooks and other
electronic devices.
Practical Information
The practical and oral part are taken at the same time.
Students can make a reservation for the exam using the modalities of the Atheneum' online system
“Alma Esamiâ€:
(https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm).
- The dates of the exam are proposed within the dedicated periods of the academic year for the students that have regularly attended the course in the present academic year. All the other students (so called “fuori corso†students) can take the exam in specific dates that are proposed during the whole year.
- Depending on the frequency of the available dates, the examination committee will decide the maximum number of the candidates allowed to take the exam per day. - Each student can't make reservations for multiple dates of the exam at the same time.
- The student who fail the oral part of the exam, can retake the same part of the exam after a minimum period of three weeks.
Teaching tools
Clinical cases (real and videotaped) , computer room, Portale
Didattico Veterinario (PDV), material and structures of the
teaching Hospital , including the multimedial lecture room.
Office hours
See the website of Gualtiero Gandini