ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 67.5 Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 30 Interactive Classroom: 4 EEES Clinics: 10 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Animal Pathology
Areas: Animal Health
Center Faculty of Veterinary Science
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The aims of Preventive Medicine are forming students in:
• Basic concepts and specific terminology used within Veterinary Preventive Medicine
• Design of sanitary and productive programs for each animal species in order to optimize profitability of farms.
• How to establish the most correct measures of medical prophylaxis, vaccination, biosecurity and husbandry, according to the farm system, to avoid the entrance of diseases, prevent the dissemination of a still present one and reduce their effects when possible.
• Monitoring and evaluation of disease control programs.
• Husbandry, hygienic characteristics and sanitary practices for each production type.
• The understanding of the economic and sanitary importance of preventive medicine programs and their influence in production.
• The knowing of the veterinary performance regarding Preventive Medicine programs.
The aims of Sanitary Police are instructing students regarding:
• The basic concepts and the terminology of Sanitary Police.
• Principles in which legislation upon animal health is based.
• Organizations and legal field on Sanitary Police.
• The official legislation on Sanitary Police.
• How the veterinary performance is regarding Sanitary Police.
THEORICAL LESSONS
The program of this discipline is divided into two parts. The first part is dedicated to Preventive Medicine measures in livestock and companion animals, and the second one includes different aspects related to the Sanitary Police.
PART 1. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (17 hours: 6 cattle, 2 small ruminants, 2 rabbits, 2 swine, 2 poultry, 1.5 equines and 1.5 dogs and cats).
• Unit 1.- Health and production management programs in dairy cattle (I): structure of the bovine production. Aims, requests and components. Biosecurity.
• Unit 2.- Health and production management programs in dairy cattle (II): monitoring of the herd: planning, organization and development. Sanitary and productive data collection: external information, both farms and animals.
• Unit 3.- Health and production management programs in dairy cattle (III): Preventive Medicine in the different stages of production. Strategies of replacement and removal.
• Unit 4.- Health and production management programs in dairy cattle (IV): Sanitary Programs for infectious and parasitic diseases. Analysis of results. Decision making.
• Unit 5.- Health and production management programs in small ruminant flocks.
• Unit 6.- Health and production management programs in rabbit farms.
• Unit 7.- Health and production management programs in swine livestock (I): Structure of the swine production. Aims, requests and components. Influence factors in the different stages of production.
• Unit 8.- Health and production management programs in swine livestock (II): Sanitary Programs for infectious and parasitic diseases. Examination and recognition of a disease in the farm: data collection. Analysis of results. Decision making.
• Unit 9.- Health and production management programs in avian farms.
• Unit 10.- Health and production management programs in equines and canine and feline communities.
PART 2. SANITARY POLICY (13 hours: general points 2 hours; 11 hours the remaining units).
• Unit 11.- Sanitary police: Concept, aims and objectives. Historical development. International organisms (OIE, FAO, WHO, OMC, etc.). European, national and local organisms and institutions. Official veterinary services and Sanitary Police. Controls and inspections.
• Unit 12.- International, European, national and local normative in animal health. Main sanitary norms: Terrestrial Code. Animal Health Act. Other normative.
• Unit 13.- Regulation of farms: Permission, sanitary conditions, sanitary qualification. Sanitary regulation for slaughterhouses, domestic and wild animals in captivity centers, and others.
• Unit 14.- Identification and traceability of livestock: Aims, farms registration. Identification elements: systems and documents of identification and farm books. Databases. Control.
• Unit 15.- Equine identification. Dog identification. Rules for potentially dangerous dogs. Identification of wild species in captivity.
• Unit 16.- Sanitary and husbandry conditions regarding animal and animal products trade with third countries, EU, national and within autonomic communities. System of communication of movements. Sanitary conditions during transport.
• Unit 17.- Prevention, control, fight and eradication of animal diseases (I). General measures of prevention. Laboratories. Diseases of compulsory communication: general procedures and performance in emergent diseases.
• Unit 18.- Prevention, control, fight and eradication of animal diseases (II). Current diseases of compulsory communication with an official performance: National Programs of Eradication and other official performances. Animal Health Defence Associations.
• Unit 19: Products of animal origin no allowed for human consumption. Animal feeding. Animal welfare in farm, trade and sacrifice. Veterinary drugs.
PRACTICAL PROGRAM
The practical program will consist of 4 sessions in at least 2 farms of different animal species, distributed as follows:
- EMPPSII C1. (4 hours). Location: Campus Terra Farm. Analysis of the health program carried out by the Association of Livestock Sanitary Defence (ADSG) on a cattle farm. In this practical session, the students will analyse the regional regulations of cattle ADSG, analyse the results of a farm, and perform ("hands on training") the most appropriate actions to comply with the health program, including vaccination and deworming of animals. They will also collect samples for performing laboratory analysis if needed.
- EMPPS II C2. (4 hours). Location: Campus Terra Farm. Elements of Health Police in dairy farms. In this practice, the students will carry out an inspection, assessing different aspects related to the health police, including compliance with regulations on animal identification and traceability, use and storage of veterinary medicines and food.
- EMPPSII C3. (4 hours). Location: Campus Terra Farm. Analysis of both the animal health program and the production status on a cattle farm. Students will perform the anamnesis of the farm and the animals, as well as the analysis of both production and sanitary data, the diagnosis of the pathologies presented by the animals and the measures to be followed for a proper diagnosis. They will also discuss the preventive and medical measures to be taken. In this farm the students will perform an inspection practice, considering different issues related to the sanitary police.
- EMPPSII C4. (3 hours). Location: Pazo de Vilane Poultry Farm. Analysis of the animal health program and production on a poultry farm. The students will visit a poultry farm where biosecurity measures and animal management will be analyzed and discussed. The prevention programs for different diseases will also be analyzed and the most recent laboratory data will be interpreted; all these actions will allow discussing the most appropriate preventive measures on the farm.
In all these practices the students will have to follow all the biosecurity rules indicated by the owners of the farms.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAFÍA BÁSICA
• ANONIMO (1984). Dicionario terminológico de Ciencias Médicas. Salvat Editores. Barcelona.
• BLANCOU, J. (2003). History of the surveillance and control of transmisible animal diseases. OIE. París.
• BLOOD, D.C.; STUDDERT, V. (1993). Diccionario de veterinaria. Interamericana-McGraw Hill. Madrid.
• O.I.E. (2003) . Código sanitario de los animales terrestres. OIE. París.
• O.I.E. (2004). Veterinary institutions in the developing world: current status and future needs. OIE. París.
• RADOSTIS, O.M. (2001). Herd health. Food animal production medicine. W.B. Saunders Company.
• RADOSTIS, O.M.; BLOOD, D.C. (1985). Heard health. A testbook of health and production management of agricultural animals. W.B. Saunders Company. Estados Unidos.
• Lei 8/2003. de 24 de abril, de sanidade animal.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
• BLOWEY, R.W.; TAYLOR, D.; WINTER, A.C.; CLARKSON, M.L.; LISTER, S.E STUART, J.C. (1992). Atlas de autoevaluación en veterinaria práctica. 2. Animales de granja. Grass edicións. Barcelona.
• BRAND, A.; NOORDHUIZEN, J.P.T.M.; SCHUKKEN, E.H. (1997): Herd health and production management in dairy practice. Wageningen Pers. Holanda.
• BUXADÉ, C. (1998). Vacuno de carne: aspectos claves. Ed. Mundi-Prensa.
• FOUZ, R. CORRALES, J.C.; FERNÁNDEZ, G.; YUS, E. (2005): Programa de mellora da calidade do leite: control das mamites bovinas.
• FERNÁNDEZ, G.; FOUZ, R.; FONTES, G.; GARCÍA, A. (1997): Calidade do leite, reconto de células somáticas. Ed. Laboratorio Interprofesional Galego de Análise .
• FERNÁNDEZ, G, PANADERO, R. 2007. Medicina preventiva en la producción de conejos. Boletín de Cunicultura, 149. 6-18.
• HULSEN, J. (2007). Cow signals. Ed Roodbont.
• SELBITZ, H.J.; MOOS, M. (2002): Vacunación de los animales domésticos. Acribia. Zaragoza.
WEB PAGES
• http://xunta.es/consellerias: Visitar a páxina da Consellería de Medio Rural, o apartado de gandaría.
• http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/inspections/index_es.html
• http://ec.europa.eu/food/index_en.htm
• http://www.mapa.es/es/ganaderia/ganaderia.htm
• http://www.oie.int/esp/es_index.htm
Up-to-date normative will be provided in each unit.
-General competences:
The following general competences for the Degree in Veterinary Medicine are established according to the White Book recommendations, based on the TUNING project.
• GVUSC02. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• GVUSC03. General knowledge of the work area.
• GVUSC05. Capacity to put knowledge onto practice.
• GVUSC06. Capability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• GVUSC09. Capacity to communicate in different spheres of activity.
• GVUSC10. Ethical commitment and undertaking of responsibilities.
The specific and compulsory competences the students have to get during the Degree have been grouped in: those ones referring to the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, those requiring developing handle skills and those requiring the development of attitudes. These competences are defined as following:
-Specific disciplinary competences (knowledge):
These competences are related to the theoretical knowledge of the different disciplines included in the formation of a Veterinary practitioner:
• CEDVUSC 03. Livestock breeding, genetic improvement, management and animal welfare.
• CEDVUSC 05. Basic and applied principles of the immune response.
• CEDVUSC 08. Knowledge and diagnosis of the various animal diseases, both individual and collective, and their prevention measures, emphasizing on zoonosis and notifiable diseases.
• CEDVUSC 11. Knowledge of the bases of the operation of the systems of animal production and his repercussions on the environment.
• CEDVUSC 13. To know the organizational, economic and management aspects in all fields of the veterinary profession.
• CEDVUSC 14. To know the veterinary rules and laws, as well as animal trade regulations.
• CEDVUSC 15. To know the rights and duties of the veterinarian, with emphasizing on ethical principles.
-Specific professional competences (expertise):
Those intellectual and manual skills all veterinarians must have, and should obtain along their degree in order to be considered qualified for the performance of their profession.
• D1VUSC 02. To collect and send specimens with the corresponding reports.
• D1VUSC 05. To perform epidemiological studies and develop prevention, control and eradication programs on animal diseases, with a focus on compulsory notifiable diseases and zoonosis.
• D1VUSC 08. To prescribe, manage and administer properly veterinary medicines.
• D1VUSC 11. To evaluate and interpret health and production parameters of an animal group, considering the economic, environmental and welfare aspects, and seeking their optimization.
• D1VUSC 14. To conduct a risk assessment, including those related to environmental and biosecurity, as well as assessment, management and monitoring of quality management systems.
• D1VUSC 15. Technical and economic advice and management of veterinary companies in the context of sustainability.
• D1VUSC 16. Applying the methods of individual identification of animals.
• D1VUSC 17. To perform technical reports specific to veterinary competences.
-Academic specific competences (want to do):
Those in which the group of attitudes and values which characterize the veterinarian practitioner are expressed, and which have to be incorporated by the student to his life and must be integrated in his daily work.
• CEAVUSC 01. To analyze, synthesize and solve problems and make decisions within the scope of the Veterinary profession.
• CEAVUSC 02. To be aware of the ethical responsibilities of the veterinary profession in relation to the society.
• CEAVUSC 04. To search and manage information related to veterinary practice.
• CEAVUSC 08. To be aware of the need on keeping professional skills and updated knowledge in a lifelong learning process.
-Transversal competences:
In addition to the knowledge and skills already referred, the formation of a degree in Veterinary will have to promote and improve transversal competitions such as:
• CTVUSC 01. Capacity for reasoning and arguing.
• CTVUSC 03. Ability to develop and present an organized and understandable text.
• CTVUSC 04. Ability to make a clear, concise, and consistent public presentation
• CTVUSC 07. Ability to solve problems through the integration and application of knowledge.
As this subject is focused on future veterinary professionals, we want to follow the following basic methodological conditions:
a.- To keep a balance between the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills since we should not forget that a number of skills must be get in this discipline which are necessary for the professional exercise of the veterinary.
b.- To promote the continuous research of new information: this is not a static discipline but in a continuous evolution so, it is necessary the student to learn how to look for new information and analyze in a critical way.
The training activities with the presence of the teacher will be:
1. MASTER CLASSES (large group): They will last 50 minutes. The teacher will present the topics included in the program, and the student must acquire the basic knowledge of the discipline. These lessons can have different formats (theory, problems and/or general examples, general guidelines of the subject). The teacher can use audiovisual media but, in general, students do not need them in class. A summary of these topics will be provided to students through the virtual campus, and reading complementary bibliography for gaining knowledge is recommended. This activity will be taught on-site with the measures established by the USC.
2. CLINICAL PRACTICES (very small group): Manual practices (“hands on training”) that will be carried out throughout the course, in which students perform clinical procedures and techniques on dead or alive animals from farms; it is important to point out that the students develop an active work in these sessions, they do not act as a mere observer. Students must participate in all practical sessions of the subject, in order to develop the necessary skills for future professional practice. These clinical practices are mandatory.
This activity will be carried out on-site at the Campus terra dairy farm (4 hours each session) and the Pazo de Vilane poultry farm (3 hours) in accordance with the measures established by the USC. In the case where the measures established by the USC cannot be guaranteed, or if the company/farm does not allow the practice to be performed, it will be carried out on-site through activities in appropriate spaces of the faculty (laboratories, seminars, classrooms) according to the current health recommendations. In this case, the same schedules would be maintained for each group of practices; these groups could be divided into two subgroups with half the schedule if needed. In this case, the other half of the schedule would be complemented by videos and individual student work facilitated in Moodle.
3. SEMINARS: theoretical/practical class in which students, in groups of 4-5 speople, will orally present works on Sanitary Policy. The subject of these works must be chosen among those proposed at the beginning of the course. The exposed topics will be discussed by all the students, allowing clarification of doubts. This activity will be carried out on-site in classrooms with the measures established by the USC. A virtual visit to a livestock farm will be available in the Virtual Reality Classroom of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
4. TUTORIALS (very small or individual groups): these are tutorials programmed by the teacher, although during the course the students will have face-to-face support, being able to talk to the different teachers at the indicated tutoring hours. The aims of these sessions are proposing and supervising the works, clarifying doubts, problems, exercises, programs, readings or other proposed tasks, debate or comment on work. In addition, students will also have virtual support, being able to make inquiries through email or using the available channels in the virtual course of "Epidemology, Preventive Medicine and Sanitary Police II ”within the Moodle platform, which can be accessed by all students enrolled in the subject.
5. OTHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES: The students will have to solve a practical case that they must present resolved; a written document must be delivered in the virtual classroom. Students must investigate to establish an action protocol and answer the questions based on the knowledge acquired through the theoretical classes, the recommended bibliography and the available information search tools.
For the final evaluation of the student, all the tasks and activities carried out throughout the course will be considered, as well as the knowledge acquired and the practical skills developed. Thus, each student's qualification will include the following parts:
A. CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
1.- Active Participation in Practical Classes. In these sessions students should complete different activities and the degree of completion of these activities will be assessed. In addition, during the EMPPSII C2 and EMPPSII C3 practical sessions, students will have to perform an activity; the results of these activities will be included in the continuous evaluation. Because attendance at all these practical sessions is mandatory, the maximum final grade for the subject in the case of non-participation in the clinical practices will be a 4.
2.- Case studies: The students, in groups of 4-5, will work on a case study. It must be submitted on line before the last week of December. Its resolution as well as the acquired knowledge will be assessed.
3- Group work: Qualifications will relay on the quality of the presentation (10 minutes) during the seminar hours, as well as its content and difficulty in preparation.
In the event that the subject is not passed, the grade of the continuous assessment will be saved in subsequent courses. Students will have the chance of repeating an activity to raise their grades.
B. WRITTEN EXAM
In this section the theoretical/practical knowledge acquired by the student will be assessed. A final exam will be performed on the dates established in the Academic Programming of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This final test will be on-site as long as the hygienic and distancing conditions established by USC are met. In these cases it will consist of 3 short topics to be developed schematically and 40-50 test-type questions with four options available and a single correct answer. Two wrong answers will discount one correct.
For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and the review of qualifications will apply.
After the publication of the provisional marks of each exam, the student will be able to review the exercise and expose doubts, suggestions or claims. The date and place of the revisions will be published together with the exam scores.
FINAL QUALIFICATION:
The final qualification of the subject will be as follows:
1. CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT (30% of the final grade)
- Active Participation and Use of Practical Classes: 10%.
- Case studies: 10%.
- Group work: 10%.
2. WRITTEN EXAM (70% of the final grade)
To pass the subject and take into account the continuous assessment, you will have to pass the final exam with a grade equal to or higher than 50% of its value (5/10 points).
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EVALUATION:
Students must be aware that continuous assessment, ie work during theoretical and practical classes, resolution of case studies and group work, account for 30% of the final grade of the subject. It is therefore highly recommended to participate in these activities as it will facilitate passing the subject. It should also be noted that clinical practices must be performed in order to pass the subject.
As for the recommendations when facing the final exam, it is important to remind students that it is essential to read carefully each question and all answers. In the short questions the student should answer the question clearly and schematically.
Class dispensation in clinical sessions is not allowed.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PASSING THE SUBJECT:
In the event that the student does not pass the subject in a given call:
- The grades of the exams are not maintained, so the student must again be examined in the whole subject.
- The qualifications obtained from the practical assumptions and the group work for the calls of the following course will be kept.
- The work and practical cases in groups will be able to improve, having to do his presentation immediately after the examination of the corresponding announcement. Students will indicate this fact to teachers on the day of the exam.
- The exams of all the calls will have a similar format and the final mark will be calculated in the same way.
Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Sanitary Police II will consist of 4.5 ECTS credits. Each credit corresponds to 25 hours. The total study time to pass the subject is composed of work in class hours and autonomous work hours.
Work in class (47 hours):
• Lectures: 30 h
• Clinical practices 15 h
• Seminars: 1 h
• Tutorials: 1 h
Individual student work (65.5 hours)
• Individual study: 41.5 h
• Preparation of works: 7 h
• Review of bibliography, consult on library, etc.: 2 h
• Attendance to recommended activities: 1 h
• Resolution of practical suppositions: 10 h
• Oral presentations: 2 h
• Write exams: 2 h
Total hours: 112.5
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:
Concepts of interest:
The relative importance to each one of the species in the production will be reflected in the time and the contents of the lectures, but in general, the following points will be developed for each species:
• Structure of production.
• Aims, requests and components.
• Biosecurity
• Monitoring of the herd
• Planning, organisation and development of sanitary programs.
• Sanitary and productive data collection: external information, both farms and animals.
• Preventive medicine in the different stages of production
• Strategies of replacement and removal in regard to sanitary programs
• Programs of management of the health
• Sanitary programs of infectious and parasitic diseases.
• Analysis and preparation of results.
• Decision making.
Materials:
Prior to each class, the presentations of lectures will be supplied in Campus Virtual. This material is not enough and it must be completed by students taking their own notes in class.
It is advisable review the production systems in the different species and their infectious and parasitic diseases, since this knowledge is used in preventive medicine. Also it is important reviewing the available materials before assisting to clinical practices in order to make a better use of them. In some subjects the corresponding didactic unit will be provided.
Main difficulties:
In case of students who are not study previously the subjects of Animal Production, Infectious Diseases and Parasitic Diseases, the subject will probably be harder. These students will have to make a previous effort since it is necessary to have some knowledge of these subjects to be able to understand the some concepts developed in this subject.
SANITARY POLICE:
Concepts of great interest:
It is important to known the different types of norms, organisms from these norms emanate and their hierarchy. Also, the “official veterinary Services and the Sanitary Police. Controls and inspections” point. It is important to understand the bases and foundations of the Sanitary Police measures in the different subjects.
Materials:
Prior to each class, the presentations of lectures will be supplied in Campus Virtual. This material is not enough and it must be completed by students taking their own notes in class. It is recommended visiting websites of organisms of importance in the developing of laws affecting sanitary police in order to familiarize with them, since we will have to consult them during the course. In some subjects the corresponding didactic unit will be provided.
Main difficulties:
It is required to students to understand the hierarchical structure of international, national and local organisms and how they work, but no the memorization of norms or the concrete examples used in class to make easy the understanding of the subject.
The greater difficulty may be related with the use of legal terminology and vocabulary which might be unfamiliar to students.
Gonzalo Fernández Rodríguez
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- gonzalo.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alberto Prieto Lago
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- alberto.prieto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Pablo Díaz Fernández
Coordinador/a- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- pablo.diaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Gonzalo López Lorenzo
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- Phone
- 982822127
- Gonzalo.lopezlorenzo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Posdoutoral USC_Campus Terra
Susana Remesar Alonso
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- susana.remesar [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Cristiana Filipa Cazapal Monteiro
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- cristiana.cazapal [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Nestor Martinez Calabuig
- Department
- Animal Pathology
- Area
- Animal Health
- nestor.martinez.calabuig [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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