Unit name | Professional Studies 2 |
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Unit code | VETS24000 |
Credit points | 0 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Dr. Slingsby |
Open unit status | Not open |
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
Completion of BVSc1 |
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
All other units in BVSc 2 |
Units you may not take alongside this one | |
School/department | Bristol Veterinary School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit is vertically integrated with Professional Studies units in Years 1, 3, 4 and 5 and allows continuing development of an understanding of the complex issues and responsibilities associated with being a veterinary professional.
Communication skills - Teaching facilitates the development of sound and effective face-to-face, verbal and written communication skills, primarily through reflective experiential practicals.
Business management - This element explores how services and products are developed in a business environment and the complex factors that affect business success. Personal and business budgeting are covered. The specific factors affecting an agricultural business associated with EMS experience are explored in detail.
Study Learning and Investigation - The evaluation of effective personal study and development strategies continues in this element, which also explores how evidence is collected and evaluated in response to both research and clinical questioning.
Aims:
Communication skills. Students should be able to:
Business management. Students should be able to:
Study, Learning and Investigation. Students should be able to:
Lectures, seminars, practicals, computer-assisted-learning, reflective journal
Before starting year 3, students must also have completed and submitted to the EMS office a Health and Safety risk assessment for each of their preclinical EMS placements, which continue until the summer vacation of Year 2
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. VETS24000).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.