Companion Animal Neurology - Advanced Diagnostic Clinical Neurology

To achieve the grade passed, the student shall be able to:

Knowledge

• Define, identify, and discuss veterinary methodology and para-clinical tools in systematised reflective clinical decision-making in the companion animal clinical practice area of clinical neurology.
• Explain, reflect about, and demonstrate overview of complex clinical decision-making, patient therapy, and management at an advanced level.
• Explain, reflect about, and demonstrate overview of systematic clinical and diagnostic approaches to the neurological patient at an advanced level.
• List, classify, and demonstrate critical reflection on existing and new approaches to patient diagnosis, therapy, management, and client education in a specialty practice situation.

Skills

• Apply the quantitative and qualitative methodologies such as performing and applying clinical diagnostic thinking as well as master relevant practical diagnostic skills.
• Identify appropriate image modality and demonstrate knowledge of common diagnostic imaging hallmarks of the neurological patient.
• Understand the interpretation of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and be able to demonstrate critical reflection of pros and cons of CT and MRI and identification of neurological patients suitable for advanced neurological diagnostic procedures.
• Collect and perform interpretation of CSF samples.
• Interpret, assess, and reflect on collected patient data in order to identify the nature of the neurological lesion and the cause of neurological disease.

• Make clinical decisions, arrive at a diagnosis, and consider evidence-based scientific approaches in order to plan and administer further appropriate diagnostics, patient therapy, and management.
• Continuously seek out, reflect on, and apply new evidence-based methods and solution models.
• Communicate and discuss academic issues and solution models with both peers and non-specialists at an advanced level and across disciplines within companion animal practice.

• Communicate effectively in writing and pass on results to relevant parties.

Competences

• Evaluate and diagnose companion animals with neurological diseases.
• Educate owners of patients with acute and chronic neurological disorders with respect to diagnostic approach, short and long-term treatment, and prognosis.
• Work independently, take responsibility for, predict, prognosticate and make decisions within clinical neurology at an advanced level.

To achieve the maximum grade 12, the student shall be able to:

Knowledge

• Define, identify, and discuss veterinary methodology and para-clinical tools in systematised reflective clinical decision-making in the companion animal clinical practice area of clinical neurology.
• Explain, reflect about, and demonstrate overview of complex clinical decision-making, patient therapy, and management at an advanced level.
• Explain, reflect about, and demonstrate overview of systematic clinical and diagnostic approaches to the neurological patient at an advanced level.
• List, classify, and demonstrate critical reflection on existing and new approaches to patient diagnosis, therapy, management, and client education in a specialty practice situation.

Skills

• Apply the quantitative and qualitative methodologies such as performing and applying clinical diagnostic thinking as well as master relevant practical diagnostic skills.
• Identify appropriate image modality and demonstrate knowledge of common diagnostic imaging hallmarks of the neurological patient.
• Understand the interpretation of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and be able to demonstrate critical reflection of pros and cons of CT and MRI and identification of neurological patients suitable for advanced neurological diagnostic procedures.
• Collect and perform interpretation of CSF samples.
• Interpret, assess, and reflect on collected patient data in order to identify the nature of the neurological lesion and cause of neurological disease.

• Make clinical decisions, arrive at a diagnosis and consider evidence-based scientific approaches in order to plan and administer further appropriate diagnostics, patient therapy, and management.
• Communicate effectively in writing and pass on results to relevant parties.

Competences

• Evaluate and diagnose companion animals with neurological diseases.