Hospital Activities II

Code: MVT14042I

3 ECTS

Duration: 30 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Veterinary Medicine

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde e bem-estar - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Trabalho decente e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

Vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

The objectives of the course are to develop in the student the following skills in the areas of companion animals, horses, livestock and exotic animals, by knowing how to:
- monitor a hospitalized animal (pain and physiological variables) and interpret it according to the competing pathology;
- propose an enteral and parenteral nutrition plan focused on the specific nutritional needs of each patient;
- interpret the results of blood counts and biochemical analyses, and other complementary means of diagnosis, and propose possible differential diagnoses and an integrated therapeutic approach;
- perform basic surgical procedures (orchiectomy, OVH and simple nodulectomies in companion animals);
- perform and interpret the neurological examination, the detailed orthopedic examination and the gynecological-andrological examination (endorsement of external genitalia).

Tutored face-to-face accompanying of hospital clinical activities, with rotation between consultation services, surgery and hospitalization of companion animals, horses, livestock species and exotic animals.

Teaching Methods

Each student will perform two shifts of four consecutive hours, in each of the consultation services, surgeries and hospitalizations of companion animals, horses, livestock and exotic animals in each semester, whose activities will be recorded and validated in a logbook.
At the end of each semester, a seminar will be organized to promote problem-based learning discussion of practical problems.
Continuous assessment: assessment of the skills of each student, demonstrated by performing three procedures per semester, recorded on video.
If the student does not approve the submitted procedure, he / she will have a second opportunity to submit a new video, considering the teachers' suggestions.
The student approves if he obtains a minimum of 10 values in each of the procedures under evaluation.
The final grade is the average of the grades obtained.
Exam evaluation: six procedures performed before a jury. The student approves with a minimum classification of 10 values.