| Inst. for Produktionsdyr og Heste | |||||||||||||||
| English title | Disease Outbreak Management. | ||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Master udd. (efteruddannelse) | ||||||||||||||
| Varighed | Udenfor blokstruktur | ||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Master udd. (efteruddannelse) Module 3A, Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health. | ||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen skriftlig og mundtlig eksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: 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. Vægtning: Project report counts 70% and the oral exam counts 30% 7-trinsskala, ekstern censur | ||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | Participation in the whole course | ||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | 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. | ||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Outside schedule Ugestruktur: 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | The participant is required to have completed a basic education e.g. DVM. | ||||||||||||||
| Obligatoriske forudsætninger | None | ||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | 30 | ||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||
| 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) | |||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||
| Jens Frederik Gramstrup Agger, jfa@life.ku.dk, Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste/Faggruppe: Populationsbiologi, Tlf: 35333013 | |||||||||||||||
| Deltagerbetaling | |||||||||||||||
| DKK 8000 | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn | |||||||||||||||
| Studienævn MSN (Master, diplom) | |||||||||||||||
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