Laurea Magistrale a Ciclo Unico in Medicina Veterinaria

MD Medical Clinic II and practices methodologies

The course, which integrates with the course of Medical Clinic I, aims to provide students with the knowledge of the pathogenetic mechanisms and clinical signs of the major diseases of internal medicine interest, related to the body systems listed in the program, in the domestic animals, including the metabolic diseases  of farm animals. Also it aims to provide students with all the basys  to formulate, both on the individual sick animal both on a group of animals suffering from the same disease, the etiologic diagnosis by setting a correct differential diagnosis and by using the appropriate collateral investigations. To do this, we want to teach the student to critically observe the clinical signs attributing it , for diagnostic purposes, to a list of possible causes including diseases treated in other preparatory disciplines.

Medical Therapy

Provide the latest therapeutic options for the treatment of the main medical diseases, including dosages, routes of administration, action and adverse effects of drugs.

MD Medical Clinic II and practices methodologies

With the knowledge acquired above (see learning objectives) and based on the knowledge gained from other preparatory disciplines  to this teaching, the student will be able to independently manage a clinical problem, by the symptoms's  interpretation , diagnosis, until to  medical and therapeutic management. The student must also have acquired an appropriate clinical and scientific communication skills and learning skills  to provide autonomously to its continuous updating.

MD Medical Therapy

At the end of the course students should know the characteristics of the different drugs used for diseases  that are studied in Clinical MedicineI courses I and  Clinical Medicina II. They must be able, to choose the appropriate therapeutic / vaccine protocol  by consideradering the therapeutical indication, the clinical condition of the patient and the compliance of the owner . They need to know how they perform therapeutic monitoring in order to adjust / change the protocol set

MD Medical Clinic II and practicesmethodologies

The teaching module (MD) consists of 112 hours of which 57 of lessons in the classroom and 55 esercitative activities. Of the latter, 24  were held in the form of collective exercises or classroom seminars (through power point presentations of interactive clinical cases);  the remaining 31 hours are always carried out in the form of exercises in small groups on case studies related to companion animals and production, at the OVU and during outings in the field with the Mobile Clinic.

MD Medical Therapy

The teaching module (M.D.) consists of 48 hours of which 24 of lessons in the classroom and 24 esercitative activities. Of the latter, 9 hours were held in the form of collective classroom exercises (interactive clinical cases, using power-point presentations), the remaining 15 hours are carried out in the form of exercises in small groups of clinical cases involving companion animals and production, at the OVU and during outings in the field with the mobile clinic

MD Medical Clinic II and practices methodologies amd Medical Therapy

Examination of Clinical Medicine and Medical Therapy II is held in the form of oral interview in one session. The student passes the test if it responds adequately to all the questions posed. The assessment is based on knowledge of the subject, ability to connect  with other disciplines and ability to link the knowledge to a  practical-professional context. The final vote takes account of the number of credits of the different modules (weighted average between the two medical II clinical modules and medical therapy)

There are provided refresher meetings, at the request of arguments from students, with the methods and timing to be defined from time to time with the teacher

MD Medical Clinic II and practices methodologies

Topics covered during the course, in the manner described above are:

digestive diseases (oral cavity, stomach, small and large intestine, liver and pancreas, diseases of the forestomachs and stomach of ruminants), endocrine disorders (hypo- and hyperadrenocorticism, hypo- and hyperthyroidism, diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemic syndrome), diseases of the integumentary system (allergic, bacterial, endocrine, autoimmune diseases ), diseases of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord and nerves), metabolic diseases (ketosis, lipomobilization syndrome, puerperal hypocalcemia, acute ruminal acidosis and chronic) and diseases of the musculoskeletal system (myopathies of cattle, swine and horses, myositis in dog).

Differential diagnosis in: acute and chronic vomiting, acute and chronic diarrhea, jaundice, itching, alopecia, convulsive syndromes.

Population medicine:  (clinical approach, evaluation of risk factors, record keeping, diagnosis of causes, implementation of collective intervention measures)

MD Medical Therapy

Vaccination protocols for dogs, cats and cattle,  therapeutic management of the main pathologies of the cardiovascular and heart failure in pets; urinary tract of companion animals (urolithiasis; FLUTD; chronic renal failure) and large animals (urolithiasis, pyelonephritis, Urachal pathologies); the respiratory system of farm animals (BRD complex, COPD) and companion animals (rhinotracheitis and feline asthma, chronic bronchitis in dogs); gastrointestinal tract of livestock (neonatal diarrhea, rumen drinker, simple indigestion, rumen acidosis, acute abdomen in cattle and horses) and companion  animals (nausea, vomiting, pancreatic insufficiency, enteritis). some parasitic diseases (heartworm disease, leishmaniasis) Also are addressed; the major metabolic diseases and deficiency of cattle (ketosis, hypocalcemia, hypokalemia, downer cow); the most common of pet disendocrinie aniamali (hypo- and hyperadrenocorticism, hypo- and hyper-thyroidism, diabetes mellitus), as well as bovine mastitis, the acid-base balance and correction fluid therapy in farm animals, tetanus, and dysautonomia

- Radostis - Veterinary medicine. A textbook of the diseases of cattle, horses, 

   sheeps,pigs and goats. 10th ed., WB Saunders, 2008

- Nelson and Couto, Small Animal Internal Medicine, 5th edition

- Bonagura/Twedt, Kirk's Current Veterinary Therapy, Volume XV. Elsevier 2014

- Nelson and Couto - Medicina interna del cane e del gatto. 4 ed. italiana. Elsevier,

  Masson 2010

Ulteriori testi per approfondimento (letture consigliate):

1. Ettinger-Feldamnn - Textbook of veterinary internal medicine (dog and cat). Elsevier, 2010

2. Smith - Large animal internal medicine - 4 ed. Mosby-Elsevier, 2008

3. Noli-Toma. Dermatologia del cane e del gatto. Poletto ed. 2011

4. C. Marconato. Algoritmi in medicina del piccoli animali: approccio orientato al problema su questiti internistici. 1 ed. poletto ed. 2011

5. F. Viganò. Procedure cliniche nel cane e nel gatto. 1 ed. italiana, Elsevier, 2012.

6. Morgan RV. Manuale di patologia e clinica dei piccoli animali. Antonio Delfino editore

7. Current veterinary therapy – Food animal practice – 5th volume
     Autore: David E. Anderson, D. Michael RingsEdizione: 2009
     Casa editrice: Sauders Elsevier
      ISBN: 978-1-4160-3591-6