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Offerings

MURDOCH-TS23-INT-2019-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Completion of the following: VET632, VET633, VET635, VET637, VET615, VET636, VET607, VET608, VET614.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

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Use evidence-based medicine to appropriately manage a case* typical of mixed animal practice at a level acceptable to the profession and your career stage. *’Manage a case’: Proceed through all stages from case presentation to case conclusion, with due consideration of clinical considerations as well as context, welfare, ethical and financial considerations. A case may be individual patient, group of patients, herd/flock/mob, premises or outbreak or other typical tasks presented to the practitioners of the elective discipline in question.
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Communicate using context-applicable language at a level acceptable to the profession and your career stage.
3.
Identify and reflect on challenges and rewards of particular importance to practitioners (ethical, financial, self-care) in mixed animal practice

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:This 12-week full-time unit allows students to undertake focused study in the discipline of mixed animal veterinary practice, referring to practices whose caseloads includes significant proportions of a range of domestic animals and may include non-domestic animals. Students will have the opportunity to extend their theoretical knowledge and develop practical skills and professional competence beyond the minimum standards required for graduation and registration. As part of this unit students will be required to participate in learning activities off campus. This unit will provide both internal and external opportunities for students to expand their special interest in mixed animal medicine and practice. Students will gain a mix of practical, clinical experience in commercial veterinary enterprises as well as engage in more formal and facilitated teaching exercises delivered by University staff. Students will enhance their understanding and technical skills associated with: · Management of production animal disease at a herd level for different production animal species · Diagnosis of pregnancy in sheep and cattle · Herd health management plans for commercial producers · The management of a mixed animal-centred veterinary business · The production of animals raised in intensive production systems · Equine general practice · Small animal general practice · Care of sick and injured wildlife