Duration
30w Clin.
Number of credits
University certificate in oriented veterinary internship | 30 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Thorough internal medicine course for vet willing to develop a practice dedicated to zoological medicine mainly non conventional small pet mammals and free-living indigenous wild mammals. Main common internal diseases of pet birds, free-living indigenous wild birds and reptiles are also included in the course.
Students take part in medical examinations, treatments and necropsies of animal species described above either sent directly by owners or by veterinarians for specialized examinations .
According to legal limits visits of production units or bird / small mammal rehabilitation centers improve this teaching.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- At the end of the course students will be ableto make a complete anamnesis and to collect clinical signs
- to analyses clinical data and to make a differential diagnosis
- to determine how and when to refer complex cases
- to propose complementary examinations and to set up a treatment
- to face emergencies
- to establish a vital, sporting or zootechnical prognosis
- to settle preventive measures
He will also be able to diagnose main common internal diseases of pet birds, common free-living indigenous wild birds and reptiles.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Notions dedicated to birds, rabbits, and new companion animals that are developed during the theoretical courses from previous years (anatomy, physiology, propaedeutics, parasitology, bacteriology, virology, ...) are of the uppermost importance. A thorough knowledge of the course " Medicine of birds, rabbits and rodents " (VETE0439-1VETE0027-1) is mandatory.
Acces is limited to veterinarians who have already completed an intership in a field other than zoological medicine
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Individual discussion with veterinarians in charge of clinical examinations, complementary examinations or treatments of inpatients and outpatients in the bird, rodent and rabbit clinic.
For the practical activities of this UE, the student will have to know and apply the biosecurity rules available at the following address: https://www.fmv-biosecurite.ulg.ac.be/CARL
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
30 weeks of clinical activities.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
During the weeks spent in the Clinic, students are strongly advised to read articles or book chapters linked with the clinical cases on an evidenced-based vet medicine choice framework. As an indication, the following books are recommanded.
Multispecies
- BSAVA Manual of Exotic Pets, Fifth revised edition, 2010, ISBN: 978 1 905319 16 9
- Diagnostic Imaging of exotic pets. Birds, small mammals, reptiles, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-8999-3049-8
- Skin diseases of exotic pets, 2006, ISBN: 9780632059690
- Veterinary Hematology and Clinical Chemistry, 2012, ISBN : 9780813810270
- Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets. 1st edn. 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4443-3041-0
- Clinical Radiology of Exotic Companion Mammals, 2008 ISBN: 9780813810492
- Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Fourth edition, 2020, ISBN: 9780323484350
- BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Surgery, Dentistry and Imaging, 2013, ISBN: 9781905319411
- BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Medicine, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-905319-49-7
- Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents, 2015, ISBN : 978-1-118-80254-0
- Rabbit and Rodent Dentistry Handbook, 2005, ISBN: 0-97006395-1-1
- Ferret medicine and surgery. 1st ed. 2017, ISBN : 978-1-4987-0787-9
- BSAVA Manual of Raptors, Pigeons and Passerine Birds, 2008, ISBN : 9781905319046
- BSAVA Manual of backyard poultry medicine and surgery, 2016, ISBN: 9781905319435
- Avian Medicine, 3rd edition, 2016, ISBN : 0-7234-3955-9
- Current Veterinary Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery, 2016, ISBN : 1-4557-4671-1
- Avian Physiology, 6th edition, Elsevier, Boston, 2015, ISBN : 0-12-407243-7
- Clinical Avian Medicine, 2006, ISBN: 00-9754994-0-8
- Mader's Reptile and Amphibian Medicine and Surgery 3rd Edition, 2019, ISBN: 9780323676618
Permanent evaluation by the staff of the work, the behaviour, the knowledge during the clinic.
A written work on a clinical subject may be required.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
During his (her) master's degree, the student will participate, under the responsibility of the assistants, in an emergnecy service according to a role to be determined. Clinical works include teaching to students in Vet Medicine Master.
The attendance at the clinic is compulsory. Absences have to be justified by official certificates. The unjustified absences will be taken into account at the time of deliberations.
Administrative rules of the clinic are available in the Service.
Students must use their official email address of the ULg to contact the service.
Contacts
Chairman
Professor Dr (DVSc, DVM) D. Marlier, Dip. ECZM (small mammals), Clinic for Birds, Rodents and Rabbits, B42, Sart-Tilman, B4000 Liège, dmarlier@uliege.be