Postgraduate Course: Livestock management impacts on disease risk & control (VESC11077)
Course Outline
| School | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
| Course Start Date |
03/08/2020 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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:
- Understand livestock production systems and production disease
- Understand how to predict disease risk consequences of grazing management strategies
- Discuss livestock trading patterns in terms of disease risk and national disease prevalence and control
- Understand the role of diagnostic and vaccine capabilities in determining disease control efficacy
- Discuss the role of management on the development of resistance to drugs
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | routes of transmission,livestock trade,farm management |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Spiridoula Athanasiadou
Tel: (0131 6)51 9355
Email: sathanas@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Angela Harding
Tel: (0131 6)51 7363
Email: Angela.Harding@ed.ac.uk |
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