Livestock Clinic II

Presentation

This discipline is the culprit of most of the prior clinical and production disciplines studied throughout the studies, where students will have the opportunity to applied their knowledge and skills acquired, in order to prepare for a professional life in farm animal practice.

It has a strong  population medicine component in swine, avian and ruminant species. Other less frequent but equally important areas are lectured, such as production of rabbits, bees and fish. 

Part of this Programme

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 3

Year | Type of course unit | Language

5 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT478-8551

Recommended complementary curricular units

PCDI II

PCDP II

Livestock I

Animal production

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

Medicine and production of swine, poultry, ruminants, rabbits, bees and fish

Objectives

Apply the knowledge on the common diseases and disorders studied in previous disciplines that afect health and production of ruminants, in regards to infectious, parasitic, metabolic and production diseases.

Identify group problems based on the clinical examination, monitorisation of clinical and production data, and assessment of facilities and management.

Establish a prognosis for the productive life of the animal and group of animals.

Establish therapeutical and control programmes for metabolic, infectious, parasitic and management diseases, with special focus on antimicrobial stewardship.

Develop communication skills

Recognise common problems int he production of rabbits, bees and fish.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

Presence in 2/3 of the theoretical and practical classes is mandatory to allow for continuous assessment, except for students with status of working students or other applicable exceptions. To these, the lecturer should provide alternative assessment tool.

For approval in continuous assessment, students must attain a minimum of 9.5 marks out of 20 in both the theoretical and the practical components of the discipline. The mark is the mean of these two components.

Practical continuous assessment = 80% demonstration of competencies report + 20% ambulatory visit report

Theoretical assessment: Bees test (5%), Fish (5%), Poultry (10%), AW/AMR (5%) - if passed with 9.5 out of 20 marks, these contents are approved; Final theoretical written assessment (75%) + supervised self learning (25%)

The final mark is the mean of the practical and theoretical components, which must be at least 9.5 marks out of 20

References

Constable, P.D. et. al., (2017) Veterinary Medicine: A textbook of the diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and goats (11th ed.). Edinburgh; London; New York; Oxford; Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier

Diseases of Poultry

Boulianne, M. et al. (2020). Diseases of Poultry. 14th ed. Wiley

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