Companion Animal Practice Part 2

Course overview

Course learning outcomes

• Apply to clinical veterinary medicine knowledge learnt in previous courses, especially anatomy (surgery and imaging), physiology (medicine), pharmacology (medicine and surgery) and pathology.
• Describe medical and surgical disorders of companion animals, including their pathogenesis, pathophysiology, investigation, diagnosis, management and prognosis.
• Use patient histories and clinical examination findings to evaluate the medical condition of companion animals.
• Construct differential diagnosis lists for medical and surgical conditions of companion animals and use the lists to propose a diagnostic approach to patients clinical problems.
• Interpret results of clinical pathology, diagnostic imaging, and other clinical investigations in order to reach a diagnosis for medical and surgical conditions.
• Recognise common diseases and disorders in companion animals and plan therapeutic approaches to them, knowing when to refer complicated or uncommon cases to specialist veterinarians.
• Plan and employ, under supervision and in a team, safe anaesthetic practices for common simple procedures in companion animals.
• Plan and perform, under supervision and in a team, basic surgical procedures safely.
• Work well in a team when conducting basic surgical and anaesthetic procedures.