Food Production Animals Medicine and Surgery
Code: 102623 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Veterinary Medicine | OB | 3 |
Contact
- Name:
- Maria Montserrat Rivera Del Alamo
- Email:
- mariamontserrat.rivera@uab.cat
Teachers
- Juan Enrique Rodríguez Gil
- Maria Jesus Palomo Peiro
- Arnau Alvarez Capella
- (External) Ahmed Salama
- (External) Jaume Alomar Huguet
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
There are no official prerequisites, but having sufficient knowledge of anatomy (morphology), physiology, ethology, protection and animal management, pathology, nutrition, reproduction, pharmacology, production, health and animal welfare is recommended.
The ability to observe and relate to the acquired knowledge in other subjects is very important.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Taught during the second semester of the 3rd year, this is a compulsory subject that introduces the student into ruminants, pigs and rabbits diseases. The different nutritional and management causes that can affect health negatively are individually and collectively studied. The methods of diagnosis, prevention, medical, surgical, dietary management that are necessary to solve problems will be determined.
Formative objectives:
- Understanding the basic concepts and methodology used in the study of the most frequent diseases of medical, food, environmental or management origin
- Understanding the pathogenic mechanisms, which will be the basis for the correct understanding and interpretation of different diseases
- Making a differential diagnosis based on the signs and injuries observed in animals.
- Developing a prevention and treatment program
Competences
- Analyse, synthesise and resolve problems and make decisions.
- Apply the basic cures that guarantee the correct function of the reproduction cycle and the resolution of obstetric problems.
- Comunicar la informació obtinguda durant l'exercici professional de manera fluïda, oralment i per escrit, amb altres col·legues, autoritats i la societat en general.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the general bases of medical and surgical treatments.
- Demonstrate knowledge of English to communicate both orally and in writing in academic and professional contexts.
- Diagnose different individual and collective animal diseases, and know about prevention measures, with emphasis on zoonoses and notifiable disease.
- Draft and present satisfactory professional reports, always maintaining the required confidentiality.
- Handle the correct protocols and technologies used to modify and optimise different animal production systems.
- Make clinical records and accurate and complete clinical exploration of animals.
- Perform a necropsy, including a record of the injuries found, sample taking and storage and posterior transport.
- Perform the most common medical and surgical treatments of animals.
- Value and interpret the production and health parameters of one animal group, considering the economic and welfare aspects.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse, synthesise and resolve problems and make decisions.
- Apply to clinical practice the knowledge acquired from the subjects of Pathology and General Surgery.
- Communicate information obtained during professional exercise in a fluid manner, orally and in writing, with other colleagues, authorities and society in general.
- Conduct a complete physical examination and detect disorders.
- Correct and prevent disorders of the locomotor apparatus and of other sporadic diseases.
- Correct, regulate and prevent the most frequent metabolic and nutritional diseases.
- Define the problems found in physical examinations or in the clinical history of an animal.
- Demonstrate knowledge of English to communicate both orally and in writing in academic and professional contexts.
- Describe the etiology, etiopathogeny, diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent medical and surgical diseases in small, equine and livestock animals.
- Describe the protocol for performing necropsies in different species.
- Determine when it is necessary or convenient to apply individual medical and/or surgical treatments to livestock animals.
- Diagnose and solve obstetric and post- delivery problems.
- Distinguish the prophylactic measures that can be applied to livestock farms to diminish the presence of diseases that affect production.
- Draft and present satisfactory professional reports, always maintaining the required confidentiality.
- Identify and prevent problems related with handling of animals that negatively affect their health.
- Identify and recognise the medical and surgical problems associated to the male and female reproduction apparatus in different animal species.
- Identify congenital and acquired diseases that affect the proper absorption of foods.
- Identify damaged organs or tissue and take samples for later study.
- Identify disorders of the locomotor apparatus and especially those of members and hooves.
- Identify neurological diseases and the most relevant ones that can sporadically affect the proper systemic functions of animals.
- Identify the most frequent metabolic disorders.
- Identify, treat and prevent problems that alter lactation and the functionality of the mammary gland.
- Identify, treat and prevent the causes of infertility in male and females.
- Identify, treat and prevent the causes that lead to anoestrus and alter normal cyclicity.
- Identify, treat and prevent the problems that affect neonates.
- Produce an anamnesis report in a real practical context.
- Properly apply hormonal treatments to the regulation and normalisation of reproduction.
- Recognise when a necropsy should be recommended in different species.
Content
In this subject, the main diseases of food, environmental, and facility origin and handling that affect the adequate hormonal and functional activity of organs and systems in ruminants, pigs, and rabbits will be studied from the point of view of collectivity and production function.
THEORY (29h): Lectures will be focused on the following topics
- Reproductive pathology in the male
- Reproductive pathology in the female
- Pregnancy
- Dystocia
- Clinical evaluation of mastitis
- Neonatology
- Extensive beef cattle farming
- Calf pathologies
- Handling of intestinal diseases
- Displacement of the abomasum
- Lameness
- Ovine pathologies
- Health management of porcine facilities
- Introduction to heliciculture
PRACTICE (38.5h)
MC1: Visit to a rabbit farm (SGVE) (2h)
MC2: Clinical cases of ruminants (SVGE) (2h)
MC3: Social-economic assessment of clinical and metabolic diseases in dairy cows I (2h)
MC4: Clinical diagnosis of seminal problems (2h)
MC5: Clinical evaluation of mastitis (SVGE) (2h)
MC6: Presentation of bovine clinical cases (2h)
MC7: Obstetric practice with bovine phantom (2h)
MC8: Rabbit necropsy (2h)
MC9: Social-economic assessment of clinical and metabolic diseases in dairy cows II (2h)
Clinical practice: Attendance at bovine farms supervised by the associated professors. The students will register all the clinical cases in their portfolio, indicating the applied procedures and treatments. An oral exposition, followed by discussion, of one of the clinical cases will be performed (MC6). (20,5h)
STUDENTS ATTENTION
Throughout the course, emails will be answered only during working schedule (from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 17:00). No emails will be answered outside this schedule.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Bovine ambulatory clinics, farm assistance and intramural clinical practices | 25 | 1 | 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 17, 22, 23, 4, 26 |
| Laboratory and Classrooms practices | 7 | 0.28 | 10, 18, 15, 16, 22, 23 |
| Lectures | 29 | 1.16 | 2, 27, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 21, 15, 16, 19, 17, 25, 22, 24, 23, 28 |
| Seminars and presentation of clinical cases | 3.5 | 0.14 | 27, 5, 6, 9, 13, 21, 15, 16, 17, 23 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 7, 4, 26, 14 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Self-learning cases | 32.5 | 1.3 | 1, 27, 3, 6, 7, 9, 13, 21, 15, 22, 23, 26, 14 |
| Study time | 45 | 1.8 | 27, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 21, 15, 16, 19, 17, 20, 25, 22, 24, 23 |
| Videos | 4 | 0.16 | 6, 12, 22 |
The course is composed of the following activities:
1. Lectures:
The student acquires the knowledge of the subject by attending the theoretical classes and complementing them with self-study of the exposed subjects. Although the theoretical classes are conceived as a unidirectional method of transmitting the teacher's knowledge to the student, it allows to establish direct questions for the students and create discussion.
2. Classroom practices and Seminars:
Classroom practices and seminars are sessions with a dual purpose. It allows deeply work with more knowledge exposed in the lectures and possibility to discuss the results obtained in the requested works, in small groups.
3. Tutorials:
The tutorials allow establishing a direct dialogue between student and teacher in which the orientation and motivation to self-study are emphasized.
4. Clinical practices, necropsies and farm assistance:
The pedagogical proposal consists in creating the atmosphere and experience that is motivating and interesting for learning. The student will develop the ability to observe and to integrate their knowledge. The practical sessions serve to apply and remember the knowledge acquired through the theoretical classes, practices and seminars. In necropsy lectures, the correct and systematic autopsy of animal, sample collection and ability to issue relevant reports will be taught. The ambulatory clinics and farm assistance with the professor provides students with a real and direct vision of the livestock in the farms and the role of veterinarian in the real environment.
5. Self-study:
Theoretical contents are exposed through the resolution of problems or clinical cases ("problem based learning") that the student has to develop. The objectives and methodology that have to be achieved by students are presented to them. The achievement of the proposed objectives depends on ability of each student, who establishes their rhythm of learning in the resolution of problems and clinical cases.
The study material used for the subject will be available in the Virtual Campus. This platform will be also used as a mechanism for documents and information exchange between teachers and students.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attitude during practices, ambulatory clínics and presentation of clinical cases | 5% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 14 |
| Self-study cases and clinical cases presentation | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 21, 15, 16, 19, 17, 22, 24, 23, 4, 26, 28, 14 |
| 2 partial exams | 45% 1st partial and 30% 2nd partial | 2 | 0.08 | 27, 5, 6, 10, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18, 21, 15, 16, 19, 17, 20, 25, 22, 24, 23 |
1- Two written partial exams:
- Evaluation of theoretical and practical knowledge
- Four options multiple choice test, incorrect answered questions subtract 0.33 each
- Overall exam score (75%) = 45% of the first partial and 30% of the second partial
- The minimal grade to pass them both is a 5. In the event of grade lower than 5, the student will have to take the remedial exam. For the fianl grade, the weighted average will be made according to the criteria set out above between the grades obtained in both exams. The average will not be made with one or both exames with a grade below 5. On the other hand, the average will be made if the grade in the make-up exam of the previously failed exam(s) is equal to or higher than 4,8. If the student take the make-up exam after passing the first one, the student will be averaged with the obtained highest grades.
- Students who will absent exam will be considered as not submitted.
2- Ambulatory clinics and intramural practices, continuous evaluation will be performed by
- Evaluation based on the student's attitude and participation
- Percentage of the qualification = 5%
- The absence not justified the practices subtracts 0.25 of the final grade.
- The absence not justified to ambulatory clinics subtracts 0.5 from the final grade.
3- Evaluation of clinical cases and self-study:
- Evaluation of clinical problems resolution, both oral and written communication
- Percentage of the qualification = 20%
- If there is not presentation of self-study or clinical cases adds 0 in the calculation of the average grade of the works and calculation of the percentage
NOTICE: this course has not the possibility of Single Assessment ("Avaluació Única")
Bibliography
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Medicina interna de grandes animales. 2010. B.P. Smith, 4º edició
Medicina Interna y Cirugía del Bovino. 2005. G. Dirksen, HD Gründer y M. Stóber. Inter-Médica. Vol 1 y vol. 2.
Cattle Medicine. 2011. PR. Scott, C. Penny, A. McCrae. Manson Publishing
Pathways to pregnancy and parturition. 2003. Senger PhL. Pullman. Current Conceptions.
Veterinary reproduction and obstetrics. 2019. Noakes DE, Parkinson TJ and England GCW., Elsevier, 10a ed.
Current Therapy in Theriogenology 2. 1986. Morrow. Saunders
Sheep Medicine. 2010. P.R. Scott. Manson Publishing
www.porcicultura.com
Software
No specific material is required
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 3 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 2 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 3 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 4 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 5 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 6 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 2 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 3 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 4 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 5 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 6 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |