| Department of Large Animal Sciences | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 3A, Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health. | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Each participant must submit a project report. The report is defended at an oral exam with 15 minutes for presentation, and 15 minutes for questions from the examiners. Weight: Project report counts 70% and the oral exam counts 30% 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Participation in the whole course | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course includes lectures and theoretical and practical training in disease outbreak management. The course ends with an examination or submission of a written report. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, The course lasts 5 full days, plus exam Theoretical exercises takes place in the class room. Practical training takes place in the veterinary autopsy hall, and a visit to an animal husbandry farm | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | The participant is required to have completed a basic education e.g. DVM. | ||||||||||||||
| Mandatory Prerequisites | None | ||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 30 | ||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
| See "Learning outcomes". | |||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| See "Learning outcomes". | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| Lectures: - Review of the animal disease situation in Europe. - An example on handling of a epidemic disease outbreak in farm animals. - Principles of disease surveillance - Objectives of contingency planning and preparation of contingency plans - Establishment and operation of national and local disease control centres - Depopulation and disposal of infected herds/flocks - Cleansing and desinfection of infected farms - Risk analysis - an overview - Disease specific lectures (e.g. AI and Bluetongue) Exercises: - The use of databases ans software in contingency planning. - A scenario exercise on the conduct of disease control, from suspicion till eradication. - Descrpitive statistics of data on farm structures and herd sizes in a selected region. - Application of contingency plans - Estimation of accumulated animal population in a protection zone (disease as well as welfare issues) - Autopsy of pigs - Preparation and implementation of simulation exercises on the control of major OIE listed diseases - Sample size estimation - Visit to livestock holding and simulation of elements of disease outbreak management - Procecures for information to international organizations (EU, OIE) | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Participants are provided with introductory texts to read before the course. During the course lectures and exercises are given in alternating order. Participants work individually and in groups at the theoretical and at the practical exercises, and with emphasis on practical applicaiton of disease control methods. After the course master students must select a topic for the individual project report relevant for the daily job or for the competences the participant wants to achive. | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| At the end of the course, it is expected that the participant have the following qualifications: Knowledge: - define and describe disease outbreaks in farms animals at the farm, regional, national and international level - handle relevant disease control strategies - critically select among control strategies Skills: - investigate reported suspicions of contagious diseases with respect to obligations for the farmer, the veterinary practitioner and the official veterinarian - Comptences: - collaborate scientifically and administratively with parties involved in the outbreak - carry out disease control activities - give instructions to the farmer - take orders from the official veterinarians - take responsibility and make decisions as a veterinary practitioner or as an official veterinarian | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Populationsbiology, Phone: 35333013 | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance Fee | |||||||||||||||
| DKK 8000 | |||||||||||||||
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