16 September 2024

Companion Animal Surgery – Soft Tissue Surgery I

This course is a compulsory course at the Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science. The Master is a postgraduate education targeting small animal veterinarians seeking Continual Professional Development (CPD).

The purpose of this course is to provide the students with theoretical and practical tools to perform rational diagnostic work-up and clinical decision-making, and to extend the participants knowledge, personal skills and competences within the discipline of companion animal surgery.

The course will provide the students with theoretical and practical competences within the fundamentals of soft-tissue surgery focusing on common abdominal (abdominal wall, gastro-intestinal, splenic, urological), and ear, nose, and throat surgeries in primary and referral practice.

The course addresses the principles of and uses a set of tools to assess the outcome of soft-tissue surgeries.

As part of the responsibilities of the companion animal surgeon the course emphasizes the importance of a systematic approach to, and management of, soft-tissue surgical patients, animal pain perception, and individually-tailored anaesthetic and analgesic management.

Read more about the Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science.

 

A mixture of case-based and problem oriented lectures, e-learning, theoretical and practical exercises. Case-study work. Scientific literature.

 

 

Having completed the course, the student must be able to:
 
Knowledge

  • Understand the aetiology, pathophysiology and clinical appearance of soft tissue surgical disorders of the abdomen (abdominal wall, gastro-intestinal, splenic, and urological conditions), as well as of the ear, nose, and throat common in primary and referral practice.
  • Understand the influence of surgical disorders of the gastrointestinal, urinary and upper respiratory system on the selection of anaesthesia and analgesia protocols.
  • Use and continue to develop common and typical techniques for selected surgical organ disease with focus on acute symptom relief.
  • Explain, reflect about, and discuss a problem-oriented and evidence-based work-up, treatment plan and prognostication for patients with surgical disease of the gastrointestinal, urinary and upper respiratory systems.
  • Define and identify relevant anatomical structures.

 
Skills

  • Perform atraumatic advanced surgical techniques with particular emphasis on tissue handling and minimal invasive diagnostics in regard to disorders of the abdomen (abdominal wall, gastro-intestinal incl. sutured and stapled anastomoses, splenic, and urologic conditions), as well as ear, nose, and throat surgeries common in primary and referral practice.  
  • Applying advanced surgical technologies such as surgical staplers, electrosurgery, laser surgery, harmonic scalpels.
  • Assess patients after surgery with focus on treatment effect, complications and prognosis.

 
Competences

  • Evaluate, plan and manage a diagnostic work-up for a patient with a complex history within companion animal soft tissue surgery.
  • Plan more advanced therapy/procedures for companion animal soft tissue surgery patients in regard to disorders of the abdomen (abdominal wall, gastro-intestinal incl. sutured and stapled anastomoses, splenic, and urogenital conditions), as well as ear, nose, and throat surgeries common in primary and referral practice.
  • Independently obtain, evaluate and elaborate on evidence based new knowledge within companion animal soft tissue surgery incl. ethical challenges.
  • Collaborate and communicate within and between specialist and non-specialist peers and laypersons involved in companion animal soft-tissue surgical patient management.

 

 

You must meet the following criteria to be admitted to this course: 

  • Hold a degree in Veterinary Medicine
  • Have a minimum of 2 years of relevant job experience from companion animal practice
  • Be proficient in English
  • Have completed the previous courses at the Companion Animal Surgery track.

 

 

The course responsibles at the compulsory course in Companion Animal Surgery are:

  • Professor James Edward Miles, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Research consultant Dorthe Hansen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lecturers at the compulsory course are:

  • Professor MSO Thomas Eriksen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Senior veterinarian Helle Harding Poulsen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Professor Jackie Demetriou, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  • Other national and international capacities within the field.

 

Course details

Duration: 5 days
Dates:

16-20 January 2023 - class of 2022
23-27 September 2024 - class of 2024

Frequency: Only available every second year
Course capacity: 24 students
Place: Novara, Italy
Course fee: EU/EEA citizens: 32,500 DKK
Non-EU/EEA citizens: 36,033 DKK

Tuition fees include hotel and full board.
Level and credit: Master course; 5 ECTS
Examination date: Please consult the exam schedule
Application deadline: Master's programme: 1 May 2023 - class of 2024
Admission: Please consult the formal requirements for this course in the course curriculum



The opening of the application period is announced via the programme newsletter.
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