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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies : Veterinary Sciences

Postgraduate Course: Livestock management impacts on disease risk & control (VESC11077)

Course Outline
SchoolRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe students will gain an understanding of how different farm management practices influence disease risk, through the complex interplay between livestock behaviour, farm environment, wildlife reservoirs, and surveillance approaches. The course will consider these interactions at the farm scale (e.g. the interplay between grazing management practices and parasite risk) and at the industry scale (e.g. industry disease control schemes and between farm livestock trading patterns).
Course description Introduction to the concepts of:
Interplay between livestock behaviour and farm management practice and disease risk
Livestock movements (industry structure and trade) and disease risk
Livestock disease and production efficiency
Biosecurity, therapeutics, diagnostics and disease control

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Flexible
Course Start Date 03/08/2020
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 196 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% in-course formal summative written assessment, which will comprise two assessments each worth 50 % of the final course mark
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Understand livestock production systems and production disease
  2. Understand how to predict disease risk consequences of grazing management strategies
  3. Discuss livestock trading patterns in terms of disease risk and national disease prevalence and control
  4. Understand the role of diagnostic and vaccine capabilities in determining disease control efficacy
  5. Discuss the role of management on the development of resistance to drugs
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsroutes of transmission,livestock trade,farm management
Contacts
Course organiserDr Spiridoula Athanasiadou
Tel: (0131 6)51 9355
Email: sathanas@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Angela Harding
Tel: (0131 6)51 7363
Email: Angela.Harding@ed.ac.uk
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