Duration
40h Clin.
Number of credits
| Veterinary surgeon | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The student will be educated by means of a clinical training based on the radiographic and ultrasonographic examinations realized during the day on the patients referred to the imaging service.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Initiate the students to the diagnostic imaging techniques routinely used in veterinary medicine;
- Learn the principles of radiographic interpretation;
- Learn how to correlate the radiographic differential diagnosis to the clinical findings.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
- anatomy
- manual restrain
- content of the previous year course in diagnostic imaging
- objectives of the clinical training of the previous year
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Hands-on in radiographic technique and ultrasonography.
Supervised training in image interpretation.
Filling of the activities in the Log Book.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Teaching is adapted to the choosen option. A rotation between the different activities of the imaging service will be organized: radiographic interpretation, radiographic technique and ultrasonography. Specific hands-on in radiographic technique and ultrasonography are planned.
Presence at the clinic is mandatory between 8.30AM and 5PM. Each student should be identified by a badge with her/his name and surname.
Recommended or required readings
No specific notes.
Suggested readings:
An Atlas of Interpretative Radiographic Anatomy of the Dog & Cat » ; COULSON, LEWIS ; 2002, Blackwell Science Ltd, ISBN 0-632-04078-5
« Textbook of Veterinary Diagnostic Radiology » ; Thrall ; 2012, Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, ISBN: 9781455703654
« Atlas of Normal Radiographic Anatomy and Anatomic Variants in the Dog and Cat » ; Thrall, Robertson, 2015, Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, ISBN: 9780323312257
« Clinical Radiology of the Horse » ; Butler, Colles, Dyson, Kold, Poulos, 2008, Blackwell Science Ltd, ISBN: 978-1-4051-7108-3
"BSAVA Manuals" about Imaging
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
A written exam based on QROL and X-ray images projected in an amphitheater will be organized in session. The written exam will be organized face-to-face (or remotely on eCampus depending on sanitary conditions). The exam score will be combined with the clinical week test score to arrive at the final score.
The quality of the projected x-ray images and their visibility from all positions in the amphitheater is evaluated before the exam by the teachers so that only sufficiently visible images are used for the exam.
Special care in writing QROL is required. Any illegible answer will be considered non-existent.
The written exam has 2 parts:
- a common part for the 3 options (AC, BV, EQ), aiming to assess the ability to describe a radiographic lesion using Roentgen signs in particular and to classify the lesions visualized. This part is composed of 3 different cases of different species studied and relating to different locations (thorax and/or abdomen and/or bone orthopedics).
- a specific part of the option: the radiographic images of a clinical case on which the student will have to recognize the radiographic incidences, describe the radiographic lesion(s) and formulate a radiographic diagnosis hypothesis.
During the clinical week, the student will be evaluated on the basis of a test on eCampus relating to the radiographic technique and the recognition of structures on ultrasound images. This clinical note will contribute 5% of the final mark.
Validation of the skill "Being able to apply the principles of the interpretation of radiographic images", cognitive learning in an authentic clinical situation and case study (TP "script concordance test", production of case reports sent by Lify and participation in the writing of several diagnostic image reports with the imaging assistants) is necessary for the final validation of this teaching unit.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The presence at the clinic is mandatory. Every absence should be notified in advance.
Contacts
Valeria Busoni, coordinatrice, vbusoni@uliege.be
Géraldine Bolen, gbolen@uliege.be
Anne-Laure Etienne, AL.Etienne@uliege.be