Hospital Activities I

Code: MVT14043I

3 ECTS

Duration: 30 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Veterinary Medicine

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This course represents a typology of intramural internships for practical skills acquisition in a hospital environment, namely consultation approach and care practices during hospitalization.

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

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

15. Proteger a 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:
- perform therapeutic administrations by enteral and parenteral routes;
- prepare a fluid therapy approach and place an intravenous catheter;
- interpret the physiological variables during monitoring and ventilation of the patient under sedation / anesthesia;
- perform a detailed physical examination of the animal's general condition;
- interpret deviations from normality in imaging tests;
- monitor pain and propose possible approaches to it.

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

Throughout the academic year, each student will perform 10 non-consecutive day shifts of four hours each, and two non-consecutive night shifts of eight hours each. During shifts, each student will have the opportunity to accompany clinicians in consultations, surgeries and hospitalization services for companion animals, horses, livestock species and exotic animals, and demonstrate the acquisition of skills, under the supervision of clinicians and teachers, in five activities defined based on the scope of skills to be acquired in the curricular unit in the clinical/surgical areas. Additionally, seminars will be organized throughout the academic semesters to promote learning based on the discussion of practical problems.

Assessment

Course Attendance: Comprise of a minimum of 56 hours of hospital shifts and attendance at 75% of seminars. This is mandatory for the student to take the continuous assessment.
Continuous Assessment: Demonstration of proficiency in the execution of up to 20 competencies offered at the beginning of the semester and completed during hospital shifts. Each competency is worth a point toward the final grade. Students pass by demonstrating proficiency in at least 10 competencies, which will correspond to a grade of 10.
Assessment by Final Exam: Comprises an individual assessment of all the competencies defined for being developed, demonstrated through practical implementation and discussion before the course committee.
Final Grade: Sum of the scores resulting from the number of proficiencies obtained in the demonstration of the proposed competencies during continuous assessment, or the grade obtained on the final exam.