Veterinary Bioscience 2 Part A (VETS90064)

VETS90064 Veterinary Bioscience 2 Part A and VETS90065 Veterinary Bioscience 2 Part B continue the integrated and inter-disciplinary approach to the study of organ function and dysfunction in animals that was introduced in Veterinary Bioscience 1 Part a and Part B. Building on students’ prior knowledge of organ function and dysfunction and their experience of scientific and clinical reasoning, this subject introduces students to the structure and normal functioning of the haemopoietic, lymphoreticular, locomotory, integumentary, nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems, and to the principles of dysfunction of these systems. Students will be introduced to the clinical disciplines of pharmacology and therapeutics, diagnostic imaging and clinical pathology as they relate to these systems. Using case-based teaching approaches, they will apply their understanding of organ and system function and dysfunction to authentic situations that enhance the development of integrative clinical reasoning abilities, and to analysis of cases that involve multiple organ perturbation.