Unit information: One Health in 2022/23

Unit name	One Health
Unit code	VETS30034
Credit points	40
Level of study	H/6
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director	Dr. Mann
Open unit status	Not open
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units)	All 1st, 2nd and 3rd Year units
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units)	All other 4th year Units
Units you may not take alongside this one
School/department	Bristol Veterinary School
Faculty	Faculty of Health Sciences

Unit Information

The One Health unit is aimed at exploring how research influences and improves the understanding of animal and human health and disease and how it interacts with clinical practice and policy making

Aims of the Unit

1. To convey a fundamental understanding of how disease functions within the animal populations, including wildlife, how this relates to public health, as a result of food production and zoonotic disease, and what impact livestock production and treatment has on the environment.
2. To discuss and explain how research impacts clinical practice and express the fundamental principles of evidence-based medicine.
3. To provide competency in critical analysis and management of data and study outcomes in order to facilitate understanding of research articles and interpretation of research project data
4. To successfully communicate to different target audiences (general public, colleagues and policy makers) scientifically accurate information gathered from research.

Your learning on this unit

The successful student is expected to acquire the skill to:

1. Critically appraise research outputs and identify their main components, findings and limitations.
2. Explain and contextualize how different research approaches shape the outputs and impacts of research.
3. Calculate test specificity and sensitivity for different scenarios and critically evaluate the impact of these.
4. Explain the importance of the reproduction number.
5. Describe the principles behind disease control and assess different approaches to disease control.
6. Explain how disease processes can be modulated by therapeutic agents.
7. Explain how novel therapeutic agents are discovered and developed, and evaluate how they are tested and assessed in clinical practice.
8. Illustrate the importance of current topics in Veterinary Public Health for various stakeholders including researchers, professional policy makers and the public
9. Effectively gather, evaluate and synthesis information for presentation to a range of audiences and pitch it appropriately at different levels.

How you will learn

Online synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning

Use of Virtual learning environment (Blackboard)

In person sessions

Small group tasks

How you will be assessed

Formative assessments (must complete):

• Data handling in research-Small group presentation with post presentation discussion and peer feedback
• Epidemiology, Population Health and One Health- Written coursework on epidemiological calculations

Summative assessments:

• Group assessment using multimedia approaches to appraise and critically evaluate how research informs knowledge of disease, pharmaceutical interventions and public communications (40% of total mark)
• Individual assessment to include Continual Professional Development (CPD) workshop planning with supporting multimedia material based on topics covered within this unit (60% of total mark)

The passmark for each summative coursework element is 40%. Students failing to achieve a pass for any element of the unit will be required to undertake a comparative piece(s) of coursework during the resit period.

Resources

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. VETS30034).

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.