Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

This is the first of two visits to PMVPH (the second to be conducted at RVC) and comprises three sections - Population Investigation Skills, which focuses on biostatistics, Population-level Decision Making, which looks at the range of criteria that must be considered (animal health and productivity, economics, animal welfare, public health and the environment) when making population-based decisions, and Veterinary Public Health.

This module comprises three sections: The first on population investigation skills includes six lectures on data analysis, management and hypothesis testing as well as ten hours in directed learning to apply the methods covered in the classroom. The second includes seven lectures on decision making at population level and the factors that might effect interventions and actions. The third section includes eight lectures on veterinary public health, covering surveillance, zoonoses and One Health. There is a strong practical element to this module with extensive self-directed and group-based work, joint sessions with human nursing and external visits. . The skills and statistical methods developed in this module will be extensively applied in subsequent years.