Learning outcomes

1. Analyse, synthesise and resolve problems and make decisions.
2. Recognise personal limitations and know when to ask for professional advice and help.
3. Communicate information obtained during professional exercise in a fluid manner, orally and in writing, with other colleagues, authorities and society in general.
4. Seek and manage information related with professional activity
5. Apply scientific method to professional practice, including medicine
6. Have basic knowledge of the profession, and in particular of the organisation and functions of professional practice.
7. Apply ethical values that govern the behavior of veterinarians in clinical practice in relations with other veterinarians.
8. Defend the ethical values that determine the decision making in diagnostic procedures, medical or surgical treatment or any medical procedure, subject to the rights of animals and their owners.
9. Diagnose and treat the main dermatological disorders that affect small, equine and exotic animals.
10. Recognise the moment when a case needs to be passed to a specialist for diagnosis and/or treatment, and if required, or not, an urgent examination.
11. Fill in anamnesis and exploration records in all clinical specialities.
12. Realise complete basic examinations in different clinical specialities (dermatology, neurology, ophthalmology, traumatology and orthopaedics...).
13. Define the problems found in physical examinations or clinical record of an animal, and produce a list of problems, differential diagnosis and the diagnostic protocol in all clinical specialities and for different species.
14. Identify the biopsy techniques that can be applied for obtaining samples of different organs and tissues.
15. Perform cytology (surface masses, skin, ear, conjunctive...), recognise the indications and limitations, fixate and stain cells, and defend interpretations.
16. Show responsibility regarding the need to perform necessary complementary tests on the patient and know how to evaluate the meaning and integrate it in the evolution of hospitalised patients of different species.
17. Perform differential diagnoses and diagnostic plans, taking into account the available complementary techniques applied to all clinical specialities and different species.
18. Perform the basic surgical procedures of different clinical specialities and take samples in small, equine, exotic and zoo animals.
19. Plan the most suitable anaesthetic protocol depending on the animal species and the general state of the patient, as well as the type of intervention required.
20. Properly calculate the doses of medicine for different animal species. Know the limitations of some drugs depending on the species or even the breed, as well as the specific contraindications.
21. Recognise the adverse effects that different medications can cause and observe established pharmacovigilance legislation
22. Recognise the disorders that require urgent assistance and know how to prioritise them by severity.
23. Identify the conditions in which euthanasia is the only possible option, or the most suitable, depending on the general state of the sick animal and appropriately propose this to the owners.