Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-Y-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in BSc (Veterinary Biology)/DVM (B1330, B1402)

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Reflect on key personal and professional attributes important for success by identifying risks to health and well-being in veterinary careers

2.

Employ reflective practice to integrate personal values and behaviours, with societal and professional expectations and document your personal/professional development opportunities encountered through the course.

3.

Develop fundamental skills in communication, emotional intelligence, professional collaboration and mindfulness

4.

Establish the psychological basis for effective communication, collaborative relationships and professional well-being when effectively working in a team

5.

Demonstrate ethical reasoning and effective communication around challenging animal welfare issues to demonstrate veterinary professional behaviour

6.

Demonstrate professional behaviours and respect towards other colleagues and staff

7.

Demonstrate safe, effective and low stress handling techniques for small animals.

8.

Demonstrate safe work practices, appropriate to the clinical context, including achieving competence in radiation safety.

9.

Apply principles of radiographic image acquisition to determine image quality and problem solve measures to improve these images.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:
  • Veterinary careers
  • Veterinary professionalism
  • Ethical reasoning
  • Communication and emotional intelligence
  • Teamwork
  • Employability
  • Well-being
  • Reflective self-awareness
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Animal handling
  • Veterinary Professional Practice (1 week extramural placement)