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Welcome to the abdominal and urogenital surgery in farm and companion animals. This module is taught in year 4 Veterinary Medicine of undergraduate program at University of Rwanda.
The module is designed to provide to students the basic expertise on common surgical conditions of the abdominal and urogenital tracts and practical hands-on skills in surgical handling these underlying conditions in cattle, goat, sheep, pig, horse, dogs and cats.
Aim of the module
The aim of this module is to provide the student knowledge and practical skills in ability to diagnose and stabilise abdominal and urogenital emergencies, and understanding of underlying abdominal and urogenital conditions requiring surgical intervention in livestock farm and companion animals in veterinary medicine.
Brief description of module
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The module provides the student knowledge and practical skills in differentiating between a medical and surgical condition relating to the abdominal cavity, ability to diagnose and stabilise abdominal and urogenital emergencies, an understanding of underlying abdominal and urogenital conditions requiring surgical intervention in companion and livestock animals in veterinary medicine. |
Therefore, the module is a pre-requisite to practicing abdominal and urogenital surgery in domestic animals. Full technical knowledge in all abdominal and urogenital surgeries relating to domestic animals requires further years of specialization and practices under the supervision of experienced veterinary surgeons following graduation.
Intended learning outcomes
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Having successfully completed the module, you should be able to:
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Indicative contents
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Farm animal Abdominal & Urogenital surgery:
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Summative assessment:
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1. Assignments : 10% 2. Practical : 15% 3. Continuous assessment (CATs) : 25% 4. Final examination : 50% |
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TOTAL : 100% |
Facilitator contacts:
Dr. Gervais Ndazigaruye
Email:shemagervais@yahoo.com
Mobile phone:+250 786 180 200/ 788 468 430
The module of Veterinary Public Health (II) and Food Safety is taught to BVM 4 students. This 10 credits module is composed of two components: Food Hygiene and Safety (4 credits) and Meat Inspection (6 credits).
Welcome to Companion animal Medicine Module; This module aims at transferring the knowledge and clinical skills to take a history, perform a full clinical examination, generate a list of differential diagnosis, know how to choose the appropriate confirmatory diagnosis, to understand the economic feasibility of diagnostics and treatment of companion animals in Rwanda, to make a treatment protocol and prognosis, advise on prevention and control for canine, feline and equine disease conditions.
Teacher: Dr Emmanuel Irimaso
Welcome to Production Animal Medicine I module. This module is taught in year four of veterinary medicine. In this academic year 2019-2020 the course will be taught in Trimester one.
The module has 10 Credits: 10 and is composed of 3 components:
1. Bovine Infectious diseases (3 credits)
2. Bovine Parasitic Diseases (3 credits)
3. Bovine Metabolic diseases (4 credits)
The first two components will be taught by Dr Michael Tukei while Bovine Metabolic diseases will be facilitated by Dr Emmanuel Irimaso
In order to take this course you are required to have learned the following module (courses): Pre- requisite or co-requisite modules (courses), excluded combinations:
Pre-requisite: Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, General & Systemic Pathology, Veterinary Pharmacology, Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology, Immunology and Animal Behaviour.
Please note that you will only see one component of Bovine Metabolic diseases on this e-learning platform
Welcome and feel free to reach out the course facilitator for more details on irimasoemmy@gmail.com or 0788471323
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- Aseptic Techniques
- Anesthesiology
- Instrumentation and Suturing
At the end of the module, a CAT, practical assignments and the final written exam will be given to students.