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This unit is divided into five rotations. Each rotation has its own specific set of learning outcomes that address content relevant to the field.
1. Production animal health and management – 2 weeks Teaching of practical and problem solving skills required by graduate veterinarians that will enable them to provide veterinary services as part of production animal practice. The focus is on day-one competencies and on the diagnosis, treatment and management of common production animal problems
2. Intensive industries – 1 week The focus of this rotation is on teaching and understanding of the nature of intensive animal industry production systems and fostering skills to enable graduate veterinarians to provide treatment and management plans to producers as part of intensive industry practice.
3. Public health – 1 week This rotation will provide students with an appreciation of the scope of veterinary public health and with an indepth understanding of the issues involved in fulfilling veterinarian’s responsibilities at the human-animal interface.
4. Anatomical pathology – 1 week This rotation provides teaching of post mortem examination, gross lesion recognition, interpretation, sampling and reporting, and the submission of surgical biopsies.
5. Clinical pathology – 1 week This rotation provides teaching of basic sample preparation and interpretation skills associated with the submission and analysis of clinical pathological samples as part of routine general practice to a level applicable to graduate veterinarians.