Intended learning outcomes of the course (ILOs)

a- Knowledge and understanding

a.1. Understand the importance of environmental aspect as well as management principles and systems in epidemiology of infectious diseases.

a.2. Identify the nature of infectious diseases of cattle, buffaloes, beside calves, sheep and goats and economic impact and zoonotic importance of diseases  

a.3. Define the various infectious etiological determinants & common terms in field of epidemiology and identify predisposing factors & the cause-disease interaction through the pathogenesis

a.4. Understand specific epidemiological pattern of all animals infectious diseases

a.5. Describe different clinical manifestations of diseases and macroscopic pathological lesions

a.6. Summarize the most appropriate aids in diagnosis

a.7. Comprehend differential diagnosis between the diseases

a.8. Understand a treatment schedule for each disease and approach the ideal therapy

a.9. Describe a protocol for prevention and accurate measures for control of infectious diseases

b- Intellectual skills

b.1. Inspect the animals clinically and collect laboratory samples.

b.2. Know good handling with a problem and  how to make a problem list and differential diagnosis based on clinical findings

b.3. Collect and analyze epidemiological data and criticise how data collected and handled

b.4. Use the appropriate tools for diagnosis and analyze reading and use acquiring skill in interpretation of  the results.

b.5. Develop skills for differential diagnosis

b.6. Criticise appropriate solution to manage infectious disease cases and solving the field problems either by medical or surgical  intervention or culling of the infected animals from the herd

b.7. Analyze the results obtained and construct prevention plan and schedule of control programmes for infectious diseases.

c- Professional and practical skills

c.1. Obtain a history of animal cases (either individual or in herd) in the clinic.

c.2. Carry out clinical examination and do collections of samples for laboratory diagnosis.

c.3. Apply different diagnostic tools in diagnosis of infectious diseases (Field one) and interpret and evaluate the common clinical and laboratory diagnostic procedures.

c.4. Perform differentiation between infectious diseases.

c.5. Evaluate variable chemotherapeutics and use the drug of choice

c.6. Manage the epidemics and solve the field problem in relation to animals and public health aspect

c.7. Write a report about animals health status and biosecurity of animals premises

c.8. Employ epidemiological information and recent diagnostic aids to solve problems of  diseases diagnosis & control

c.9. Design and evaluate emergency plan during epidemics affecting ruminant animals

c.10. Evaluate the risk of contamination, cross infection and predisposing factors for diseases onset

c.11. Conduct and choose a correct contact with relevant departments and other intended to reach a final correct diagnosis. 

 d- General and transferable skills

d.1. Communicate with certain animal health organization (OIE & FAO) to collect data base on diseases epidemiology and know epidemiological situation and recent diagnostic aids and updates of control  measures of infectious diseases.

d.2. Work in a team with other groups and colleagues in field  of veterinary infectious diseases.

d.3. Learn how to do a review article on a subject and how to read text and related reference books

d.4. Learn how to transfer skills via the network connection and utilize different multimedia for  presentation of a scientific study and writing reports

d.5. Search for new technological methods for practical diagnosis.

d.6. Able to solve disease problems of ruminants