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IDENTIFYING DATA | 2024_25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subject | INTRODUCTION TO THE VETERINARY PROFESSION | Code | 00106009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Credit. | Type | Year | Period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Basic Training | First | Second |
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Department | PRODUCCION ANIMAL |
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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 |
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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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Competencias |
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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 |
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To have the ability to learn. | B6475 B6479 B6481 |
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To have the ability to communicate with people who are not experts in the field. | B6473 |
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To have the ability to work autonomously. | B6475 B6481 |
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To practice correct oral and written communication. | B6472 B6475 |
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To have the ability to relate. | B6472 B6473 B6475 |
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To have basic knowledge of the activities carried out in the different professional fields of veterinary medicine. | A19633 A19634 |
B6481 |
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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 |
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To have acquired a basic knowledge of animal behavior, as well as the bases of their identification. | A19634 |
B6481 |
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To manifest and to adopt an ethical commitment. - Knows and applies the rules on animal welfare. | A19614 A19639 A19643 |
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To know and to apply the (basic) rules on biosafety in agricultural and food farms and facilities. | A19614 A19633 A19643 |
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To knows the rights and duties of the Veterinarian, paying special attention to ethical principles. | A19633 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Assessment |
Description | Qualification | ||
Lecture | Objective multiple choice test. | 15 % | |
Seminars | Seminars (deontology) Seminars (veterinary career options) |
15 % 15 % |
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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 |
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