Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2024_25
Subject INTRODUCTION TO THE VETERINARY PROFESSION Code 00106009
Study programme
0106 GRADO EN VETERINARIA
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
3 Basic Training First Second
Language
Castellano
Prerequisites
Department PRODUCCION ANIMAL
Coordinador
SARO HIGUERA , CRISTINA
E-mail csarh@unileon.es
caloc@unileon.es
rmcapg@unileon.es
jccubg@unileon.es
bprig@unileon.es
matesd@unileon.es
cvals@unileon.es
slopp@unileon.es
imata@unileon.es
Lecturers
ALONSO CALLEJA , CARLOS
CAPITA GONZÁLEZ , ROSA MARÍA
CUBRÍA GARCÍA , JUAN CARLOS
PRIETO GUTIÉRREZ , BERNARDO
SARO HIGUERA , CRISTINA
TESOURO DÍEZ , MIGUEL ÁNGEL
VALDÉS SOLÍS , CARMEN
LÓPEZ PUENTE , SECUNDINO
MATEOS ALVAREZ , IVAN
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General description This is an introductory and multidisciplinary course, highly practical in several basic fundamentals of the veterinary profession: - Ethics and professional field: ethical standards that should prevail in practice. Knowledge of business and professional veterinary field, showing the student the different possibilities upon graduation, especially in farms and agricultural companies, food industries and abattoirs, hospitals and veterinary clinics.-Care and handling of animals: providing, from the beginning of Grade studies, general knowledge and basic skills in attention, care and handling they receive both pets and farm animals.
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente SANIDAD ANIMAL GARCIA MARIN , JUAN FRANCISCO
Secretario PRODUCCION ANIMAL GONZALEZ EGUREN , VICENTE
Vocal HIGIENE Y TECNOLOG. ALIMENTOS LOPEZ FERNANDEZ , MARIA MERCEDES
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente PRODUCCION ANIMAL RANILLA GARCIA , MARIA JOSE
Secretario SANIDAD ANIMAL FREGENEDA GRANDES , JUAN MIGUEL
Vocal MEDICINA,CIRUGIA Y ANAT.VETERI FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ , JOSE GABRIEL

Competencias
Code  
A19614 106P12 Respect and enforce animal welfare in all professional activities related to animal management.
A19633 106S12 Ethnological and productive characteristics, with special reference to management.
A19634 106S13 Bases of animal behavior and the domestication process.
A19639 106S18 Ethical principles of the veterinary profession.
A19643 106S21 Bioethics.
B6472 106G2 Work as a team, single or multidisciplinary, and show respect, appreciation and sensitivity to the work of others.
B6473 106G3 Maintain ethical behavior in the exercise of their responsibilities towards the profession and society.
B6475 106G5 Write and present professional reports correctly, always maintaining the necessary confidentiality.
B6479 106G9 Demonstrate interest in knowing how to use basic computer tools.
B6481 106G11 Keep the knowledge, skills and attitudes of professional competencies updated through a continuing education process.

Learning aims
Competences
To have the ability to learn. B6475
B6479
B6481
To have the ability to communicate with people who are not experts in the field. B6473
To have the ability to work autonomously. B6475
B6481
To practice correct oral and written communication. B6472
B6475
To have the ability to relate. B6472
B6473
B6475
To have basic knowledge of the activities carried out in the different professional fields of veterinary medicine. A19633
A19634
 B6481
To possess and to apply basic animal care skills, including both the management of rental animals and the care of sick animals. A19633
A19634
 B6472
B6481
To have acquired a basic knowledge of animal behavior, as well as the bases of their identification. A19634
 B6481
To manifest and to adopt an ethical commitment. - Knows and applies the rules on animal welfare. A19614
A19639
A19643
To know and to apply the (basic) rules on biosafety in agricultural and food farms and facilities. A19614
A19633
A19643
To knows the rights and duties of the Veterinarian, paying special attention to ethical principles. A19633
A19639

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
I. DEONTOLOGY Topic 1.- Introduction. General Concepts. Legislation, Ethics, Morality, and Bioethics. Ethical Principles in the Practice of Veterinary Profession. Veterinary Deontology. Ethics Committees.
Topic 2.- The Practice of the Veterinary Profession. Professional Title. General and Specific Rights and Duties in the Practice of Free Profession and in Public Service.
Topic 3.- The Veterinary Professional Organization. Veterinary Collegiate Association. Functions of Professional Associations. Deontological Code. Fees. Intrusion.
Topic 4.- Veterinary Professional Responsibility. Civil, Criminal, and Administrative Responsibility.
Topic 5.- Responsibility for Harm Caused to Animals: Diagnostic Errors, Therapeutic Failures, Accidents from Vaccination, Restraint or Hospitalization, and Surgical Procedures. Neglect and Abandonment of the Sick. Liability Insurance. Disciplinary Sanctions.
II. SEMINARS (DEONTOLOGY) Seminar 1.- Search for Legislation Related to the Veterinary Profession
Seminar 2.- Analysis of Judicial Sentences Related to the Veterinary Profession.
Seminar 3.- Rights of Animals. Animals in Entertainment and Experimentation, Ethical and Legal Aspects.
III. SEMINARS (VETERINARY CAREER OPTIONS) Small animals, production animals, exotic animals, public administration, military veterinary, experimental animals, research, public health, etc.
IV. VISITS TO COMPANIES AND ENTITIES RELATED TO THE VETERINARY PROFESSION C-1.- Visit to a Slaughterhouse and Understanding of the Work Developed by the Veterinarian.
C-2.- Visit to a Feed Factory and Understanding of the Work Developed by the Veterinarian.
C-3.- Visit to a Food Industries Company: Dairy Factory, Cutting Rooms, Food Factories. Market.
C-4.- Visit to a Pharmaceutical Laboratory.
C-5.- Visits to Livestock Farms: Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, Swine, Sheep, Poultry, etc.
C-6.- Other Visits: Fish Farm, Zoo, Veterinary Clinical Hospitals, Animal Reproduction Centers, Research Centers, etc.
V. HANDLING AND CARE OF LIVESTOCK ANIMALS Handling and Care of Birds. Handling and Care of Swine. Handling and Care of Cattle. Handling and Care of Sheep
VI. HANDLING AND CARE OF SMALL ANIMALS AND EQUINES Handling and Care of Small Animals. Handling and Care of Equines

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Class hours Hours outside the classroom Total hours
Seminars 4 6 10
 
Field work/trips 34 11 45
Personal tuition 1 6 7
 
Lecture 5 6 11
 
Objective multiple-choice tests 1 1 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  
  Description
Seminars Four classroom seminars on current topics will be conducted, of which students will have been informed in advance. Groups of 6 to 8 students will be formed to develop these seminars, which will be presented in class on the dates indicated in the calendar. Bibliographic material will be available on the institutional Moodle educational platform, and additional quality documentation may be provided for the presentation. The presentation will take place in the classroom on the specified dates, in presentations lasting 10 to 15 minutes followed by a brief debate, during which the most outstanding points and improvement recommendations will be established. An individual summary of the topics presented must be submitted through Moodle. Duration: 1 h (x 4 seminars) Number of groups: 6 Location: Veterinary Faculty Classroom Number of teachers per group: 1 Seminars will be held where veterinary professionals from different fields will present the various career opportunities offered by the profession to the students. Duration: 2 h (x 4 sessions) Number of groups: 1 Location: Veterinary Faculty Number of teachers per group: 1
Field work/trips Three types of visits will be made: A) Slaughterhouse or agri-food industry, B) Feed factory, C) Livestock farms. Presentation of the veterinarian's role in each case. Visits to companies and entities related to the veterinary profession. Duration: 5 h (x 3 visits) Number of groups: 3 Location: companies Number of teachers per group: 1 Management and care of livestock animals: student participation in the daily activities of a meat poultry farm, pigs, sheep and dairy cattle. Field practice Duration: 3 h (x 3 practices) Number of groups: 24 Location: Farm of the University of León Number of teachers per group: 1 Management and care of small animals and equids: student participation in the management and care of small animals and equines hospitalized. Clinical practice Duration: 4 h (x 2 practices) Number of groups: 24 Location: Veterinary Hospital of the University of León. Number of professors per group: 1
Personal tuition Personalized attention to the student at previously agreed times.
Lecture Presentation, by the teacher, of the content of the theoretical program of the subject.

Personalized attention
 
Lecture
Seminars
Field work/trips
Personal tuition
Objective multiple-choice tests
Description
Personalized attention to the student, at a previously arranged time.

Assessment
  Description Qualification
Lecture Objective multiple choice test. 15 %
Seminars Seminars (deontology)

Seminars (veterinary career options) 		15 %

15 %
Field work/trips Assistance, completion of questionnaires, and submission of scheduled tasks throughout the course 55 %
 
Other comments and second call

For the application of the percentages it is necessary to have each and every one of the parts passed.


Sources of information
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic Asamblea General de Presidentes del CGCVE (16/12/2006), Código deontológico de la profesión veterinaria, www.colvet.es, 2006
RD 126/2013. BOE 09/03/2003, Estatutos generales de la organización colegial veterinaria española, www.colvet.es, 2013
Pond WG, Introducción a la ciencia animal, Zaragoza: Acribia, 2006
Rollin BE, Introducción a la ética médica veterinaria. Teoría y casos, Zaragoza: Acribia, 2009

Complementary , Código Civil, Madrid: Tecnos, 2012
, Código Penal , Madrid: Tecnos , 2013
García de Enterría E, Fernández TR , Curso de Derecho Administrativo. Tomo I y Tomo II , Madrid: Civitas Ediciones , 1993
González Navarro G y col. , Deontología, función social y responsabilidades de las profesiones sanitarias , Madrid: Consejo Social de la UCM y Fundación BSCH , 1999
Quintana López T , Derecho veterinario: epizootias y sanidad Animal , Madrid, M. Pons : Universidad de León, 1993
Gracia Guillén D , Fundamentos de bioética , Madrid: Eudema, 1989
Polaino-Lorente A, Manual de bioética general , Madrid: Ediciones Rialp , 1994
Gisbert Calabuig JA , Medicina legal y toxicología , Barcelona: Masson, 1998

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