Duration
26h Th, 24h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in veterinary medicine | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Anatomy is the science which study the organisation of living beings. It is the fondation of the teaching of medicine and consists of a necessary introduction to the knowledge of the sound organism and its functions. Veterinary anatomy is general and comparative: it concerns all animal domestic species and describes resemblances and caracteristical differences.
The course anatomy of domestic animals IV is the fourth part of the anatomy course. It comes after anatomy of domestic animals I, II and III
The course will begin with osteology of the neurocranium. Comparative and applied angiology of the head, the central nervous system part I: Introduction: morphology, different parts and vascularization, the cranial nerves with the comparative and applied neurology of the head, the spinal nerves constituting the plexuses with the distribution of nerves, angiology and applied neurology of the thoracic and pelvic limbs and their girdles including topographic anatomy. Sense organs, central nervous system part II: (afferent somatic pathways, special afferent somatic pathways, motor somatic pathways, visceral nervous system and visceral afferent, special afferent and efferent pathways) will be studied. The course will end with the study of the anatomy of birds.
The complete table of contents of the course is available on e-campus
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student must be able to cite the general organization of all the studied systems; to describe and draw the morphology of the anatomical structures, to explain their functions, the topography, the innervation and the vascularization. The understanding of the subject is essential to pass the exam.
In practice, the student will have to be able to adapt this knowledge to the professional requirements in the field of clinical sciences, in particular medical imaging, semiology, propaedeutic and surgery, as well as in the context of food inspection. food.
Learnings tips: Anatomy is a big lesson that can be frightening to some students who think they need to learn everything by heart. However, even if long hours of learning are necessary, especially for the acquisition of basic vocabulary and nomenclature, the many links existing with courses in physiology, histology, biochemistry, pathology make the study very interesting . The understanding of the subject is indispensable and proves to be much more important than the knowledge of small sharp details without clinical interest. When one studies, one must start with the "table of contents", then the main titles, the general conformation, the main characteristics and the location, the function, before going on to study the small details. Above all, we must understand what we are studying!
Tables showing the specific learning objectives of the course are posted on e-campus
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful completion of Anatomy I and II courses and knowledge of Anatomy III course are essential. See below for the prerequisites in the "evaluation" section.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assistance to practical lessons is obligatory. Any absence from the TP must be made up during the quadrimester, within a time window approved by the assistants. If not, the student may be prohibited from presenting his exam during the first session. Rather than to waste time to take the presences, the dissections realized by the students will serve as control of presences. Parts put at the disposal the students must be completely dissected and the dissections have to be of quality to allow all the students of the group to benefit from it for their apprenticeship.
The student should be able to perform a correct dissection, describe what he dissected, identify the different structures and describe their function. He must also look at the dissections of other students and study them. Students are required to prepare the material before coming to the dissection room. Before each lab session, the student will have to listen to (or re-listen to) the podcasts of the theory course as well as the practical films that are on e-campus. Basic knowledge checks may be done. A file, published on ecampus, will resume, before each dissection, the pieces they will have to dissect and this, in order to better prepare these TPs. A dissection technique guide is available on eCampus to help you complete the dissection, point by point and region by region. Oral examinations of knowledge control may be organized on Fridays of dissection weeks. The order of passage is communicated during the week. These questions are formative but they are also intended to inform the student about his / her level of knowledge and understanding of the subject and to best prepare him for the assessment on the day of the exam. The program provides 24 hours of practical work (TP). These courses are compulsory and complementary to the theoretical courses. They are organized in groups of 50 to 60 students over 2 weeks (10h of dissection and 2h of topographic anatomy / week and a formative interrogation on Friday PM). Practical work in angiology and applied neurology and topographic anatomy will be performed on the head, fore and hind limbs and their belts. The subject is approached regionally.
The storage instructions included in the practical work book must be scrupulously respected.
Biosecurity measures: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/anatomie/marche-a-suivre-unique.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
26 hours of theoric lessons are at the program. The typical horary includes 4 hours of anatomy lessons per week . Assistance to theoric lessons is not compulsory. However, it is strongly advised because the way to address the course is clearly developped and the focus is put on the parts to be known to be able to pass the examination. Schemes and drawings are frequently realised on a graphic tablet, put "online" and permit an easier memorisation. Most of the lessons will be podcast. A revision session can be organised at the end of the year at the request of the students. The matters that are not understood must be transmitted to the delegates that will draw up a list they will transmit to prof Gabriel some days before the session. The theoric lessons and the revision session are the only moments where the theory is developped. The aim of the TPs is for training and practical knowledge and not for teaching!
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Many different materials are available for students to learn in the anatomy course. Video supports such as course podcasts are uploaded to myuliege and practical videos are uploaded to e-campus. Very complete syllabuses (word) are deposited on the e-campus. These are the course materials and they contain anatomical plates from the course reference book, Dyce, Sack and Wensing, Texbook of veterinary Anatomy. Diagrams produced over time are deposited on e-campus in a folder entitled "Course reference diagrams". The diagrams which are produced live during the lessons are placed in a separate file entitled "diagrams carried out during the course". When there is no support in the form of a syllabus yet, it is the power points, filed in a file on the e-campus, which then serve as support for the course. It is up to everyone to find their preferred medium, according to their preferences, for learning the course.
Books other than the Dyce, of which you will find a short list below, can be useful to have more precise anatomical charts available (like those from the Barone) or when we are passionate about the anatomy of a particular species. . The following books are therefore given merely as an indication.
Sissons and Grossman's. The anatomy of the domestic animals. Volume 1. Ed. W.B. Saunders.
Anatomy of the dog. Miller, Christensen and Evans. Ed. W.B. Saunders Company
A color atlas of clinical anatomy of the dog and cat. J.S.Boyd. Wolfe Publishung Ltd.
Anatomie comparée des mammifères domestiques. Barone R. Angiology, Nervous system (Tomes 5, 6 et 7).
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
Further information:
In-person
In first and second sessions, a two-part examination; a theoretical and a practical, will be organized.
The theoretical exam will be written. It counts for 65% of the final mark and may include some true / false (or multiple choice or QRM) questions, short open questions, questions on diagrams and diagrams to be produced / completed. The weighting of the questions will be indicated. To pass the exam, it is essential to have understood the matter and to know how to make sufficiently precise diagrams to explain the functional features. The knowledge of the prerequisites is necessary. If these prerequisites are not acquired, it is impossible to understand the vascularization and the innervation
Specific evaluation objectives will be provided to the students.
The practical exam counts for 35% of the final grade and consists of (1) performing a quality dissection and recognizing and describing the structures highlighted (2) recognizing and describing different structures and their functions and topography. It is very important to know the precise topography of the structures, and to link them to the clinic. The evaluation grid and the different dissection pieces that may be proposed will be posted online on eCampus.
The horaries established for these examinations must be strictly respected.
There is no partial exemption within this teaching unit. The student with a mark <10/20 must represent both parts of the exam in the second session
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
To promote learning of the course and therefore its success, formative online tests will be deployed on e-campus and practical formative questions will be offered regularly to students. The course reference syllabi will be completed.
Contacts
Prof Annick Gabriel, annick.gabriel@uliege.be. Students may obtain a rendez-vous (preferate way: by e-mail) if they have any problem.
For practical works: Dr Hélène Leroy ( helene.leroy@uliege.be ), Tel : 04/366 40 61