Physiologie animale III
- UE code SVETB326
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Schedule
15 4Quarter 1
- ECTS Credits 2
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Language
French
- Teacher Hontoir Fanny
This course of Animal Physiology III aims to provide you with the theorical knowledge and practical capacities, in order to transfer them in practise, targeting specific systems: the reproductive tract and the urinary system.
New theorical and practical learnings of animal physiology III are built on previous fundamentals of chemistry, histology, anatomy as well as splanchnology. Mastering those basics in morphology and sciences is therefore essential to better understand the mechanisms described for the reproductive and urinary system during pedagogical activities of animal physiology III. You will be stimulated to integrate your learnings of the targeted systems in physiological and pathological context. By all the learning activities, the teaching team aims to help you to have an overview of the living animal, and to connect those learnings to basic sciences and to further clinical practice in vet master.
Pedagogical activities aim you to reach those objectives:
Learning activities targeting the studied systems aim to link physiological concepts and the body systems (digestive, endocrine, cardio-vascular, respiratory). This is a nice introduction to your future courses in internal medicine and obstetric.
This course adds new knowledge and competencies to the Animal Physiology I (cellular, cardio-vascular and respiratory) and II (digestive and endocrine), by introducing you to the physiology of the reproductive and urinary tract.
Lectures and activities aim to provide you with the specificities of the reproduction of the selected species, from puberty to reproduction, in male and female; and with the functions of the different part of the urinary system,
Activities should enable you to understand theorical concepts and to link them to practical activities (either in the university, or in your future curriculum in master). This link is important for your long-lasting learning of the animal physiology
Physiology of the reproductive tract
Puberty
Cyclicity and seasonality
Gestation
Parturition
Lactation
Adaptation to extra-uterine life
Physiology of the urinary tract
Glomerular filtration and primitive urine
Proximal convoluted tube
Henle and vasa recta
Distal convoluted tube and collector duct
Acid-base balance
Micturition and urine
Other functions of the kidneys
Activities (called, in French, travaux dirigés et travaux pratiques) include learning practical handling of animals to specifically investigate urinary/reproductive systems and udder, working on clinical cases during seminars, stimulating reminiscence of learning and transferring them to professional situations, but also connecting learning of different systems.
Activities will also be the opportunity for you to exercise your soft skills, organization, communication, presentation (oral, written), as well as animal handling and clinical exam.
Assessment, at the end of the learning period, is done for all teaching activities and for all learning outcomes (knowledge, understanding, transfer, and practice).
Examination is done through oral and written exam. Written part will mainly be associated to description of mechanisms, transfer of knowledge to cases, schematisation of combined mechanisms or synthesis of the response to a physiological or pathological situation. Oral exam will mainly assess the ability to perform an act (part of the clinical exam), to perform and/or interpret results (with motivated answer), and to apply knowledge to clinical case. Success to both is mandatory for validation of the course.
Fundamental knowledge in chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, splanchnology, histology as well as biochemistry are required to understand and build the knowledge and practice of the Integrated physiology lecture.
Pedagogical contents are provided by the teaching team on the Webcampus platform. This may include (and not limited to): slides, videos, audio. This ensures you, as a vet student, have access to the main content of the course.
References for further reading may be provided by the teaching team. A list of reference textbook of physiology is provided as example, below:
Sjaastad, O. V., Sand, O., & Hove, K. (2010). Physiology of domestic animals. Scan. Vet. Press.
Klein, T. B. G. (2012). Cunningham's textbook of veterinary physiology-E-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Those books are available upon request at the library.
Training | Study programme | Block | Credits | Mandatory |
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Bachelier en médecine vétérinaire | Standard | 0 | 2 | |
Bachelier en médecine vétérinaire | Standard | 3 | 2 |