VSC466 Clinical Rotation 8 - Mixed Practice (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Animal and Vet Science (ANVET)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This rotation exposes students to mixed rural veterinary practice. Mixed veterinary practices are common throughout rural Australia and perform an important role in their communities by ensuring access of the public to veterinary services, advice on zoonoses, public health and animal welfare and performing other community services, while also acting as sentinels for new or exotic diseases of animals and as a reserve for outbreaks of introduced disease in animals. This composite role is unique to mixed rural practice and CSU veterinary graduates require an understanding and familiarity with this complex community responsibility.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Wagga Wagga | Session 2 |
| Internal | Wagga Wagga | Session 3 |
| Internal | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: VSC466
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Prerequisite(s):
VSC415 and VSC426 and VSC427 and VSC450 and VSC451 and VSC453
Enrolment restrictions:
Bachelor of Veterinary Science
Bachelor of Veterinary Biology/Bachelor of Veterinary Science
Bachelor of Veterinary Biology/Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Honours)
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to describe the role of veterinarians working in mixed rural veterinary practice
- be able to communicate empathically and effectively with clients from a range of backgrounds, including primary producers and owners of companion and performance animals
- be able to provide veterinary services to clients for a wide range of domestic animal species
- be able to perform clinical examinations on all of the common domestic animal species
- be able to perform the full range of common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures commonly required in veterinary practice
- be able to describe the role of veterinary practitioners in rural communities to represent the veterinary profession through activities outside those associated with veterinary practice
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Veterinary reproduction
Veterinary surgery
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary emergency medicine
Veterinary anaesthesia
Diagnostic imaging
Epidemiology
Public Health
Communication skills
Workplace Learning
This subject contains a Workplace Learning component. Please contact the subject coordinator for further information.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.