Course overview
This course has two broad objectives. First, a study of veterinary pathology provides the underpinning knowledge for an understanding of diseases processes and the animal body's response to disease. A study of pathology provides the necessary insights for the work of veterinary technologists in assisting diagnostic procedures and supporting veterinary treatment.
Second, veterinary technologists who work in the fields of veterinary diagnostics in veterinary practices, and in government of private laboratories require both knowledge and practical skills in the procedures used by anatomic and clinical pathologists to detect the presence of disease and to describe the development of disease processes. This course will introduce those skills across a broad range of veterinary diagnostic procedures.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe, using pathological terminology, the way in which body systems respond to disease processes
- Recognise and identify the pathological changes which occur in tissues of the body in response to the common disease processes
- Correctly select and prepare tissues for submission to a veterinary pathology laboratory from animal cadavers
- Perform cytologic evaluation including assisting in collecting, preparing and evaluating transudate, exudate and cytologic specimens
- Operate a range of veterinary diagnostic equipment
Availability
Class details
Roseworthy Campus
Class number 26685
Section LE01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 26686
Section PR01
Size 30
Available 30
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