Public and Forensic Veterinary Medicine; Proceedings of veterinary bodies in case of disease outbreak; Notification of diseases; Chapters from the Civil law and Criminal law; Evaluation of the age of pathological processes; The role of experts; Cruelty of animals;

Participation in at least 50 % lectures and active participation in practical exercises to the extent required by the Students' Regulations of UVLF in Košice, credit is awarded after meeting the specified criteria. During the semester, students prepare semester works related to solving certain cases from forensic veterinary medicine and veterinary legislation, too.

The aim of the study subject is to prepare students for a state examination with an emphasis on assessing the facts of the objects under review (the state of pathological processes, the duties of a veterinary surgeon before the courts, post-mortem changes, etc.). The legislation governing the veterinary profession has gone through various permutations in recent years. The subject's goal is to identify both the essential elements and options for countries where certain infectious diseases have occurred, as well as the method of implementing control measures in the event of disease outbreaks.

Concept and System of Forensic veterinary medicine, Responsibility of the Veterinary Officer , Judicial Examination, Examination of Material Evidence, Determination of the Condition of Pathological Processes, Postmortal Changes, Procedure of State Administration Bodies in the Veterinary Area in the Occurrence of Selected Infectious and Parasitic Animal Diseases: - the tasks of the chief veterinarian - Obligations of the private veterinarian - Obligations of the breeder.

1. Introduction to the subject; Application of Animal Law

2. Human and Veterinary Forensic Medicine – history

3. The position and role of forensic veterinary medicine

4. Special Features of Veterinary Forensic Medicine; Veterinarian´s role and responsibility

5. Serving as an expert and appearing in court (vet as witness, expert and accused person)

6. Animal identification

7. Collection of evidence

8. Post mortem examination (reconnaissance, judicial necropsy, exhumation)

9. Cruelty to animals from the legal point

10. Legal aspects of human – animal relationship (criminal law, responsibility of a vet)

11. Veterinary legislation (euthanasia, culling, killing, exterminating, slaughter)

12. Veterinary legislation (justification for promoting the welfare of animals – farm animals, wildlife)

13. Zoonoses and general measures for the control of certain diseases from the legal point

LESSONS:

1. Abuse, Neglect, Non-Accidental Injury

2. Body of the offence (crime)

3. Post mortem changes (rigor mortis, autolysis, algor mortis, livores mortis, hypostasis, cruores)

4. Real evidence (blood, hairs, bones)

5. Asphyxiation (strangling, hanging, suffocating)

6. a) Mechanic injuries (wounds, fractures and their healing)

b) Injuries from current (direct, alternating)

7. Temperature changes (burns, frostbites), atmosphere changes; starvation

8. Pregnancy, parturition from the forensic view

9. Pathological changes (atrophy, necrosis, dystrophy, circulation disorders, thrombosis, infarct, inflammations) and their aging

10. Forensic toxicology – intoxication, diagnosis, site visits, field work, samples collection)

11. Poisoning causes in animals (symptoms)

12. Case studies; the expert´s report writing

13. Forensic aspects of veterinary ethology

Takáčová et. al: Elements of forensic veterinary medicine. ESAP in UVMPh in Košice, 2012, pp. 182

Takáčová, Vargová, Bodnárová: Public Veterinary Medicine, UVMP Košice, 2014, pp 127

EU legislation regarding Veterinary Care as well as control measures in case of disease outbreaks

Content prerequisite:

Public Veterinary Medicine, Epizootology, Veterinary Pathology, Parasitic Diseases, Toxicology

Continuous assessment:

Written test

Conditions for completion of course:

Participation in at least 50 % lectures and active participation in practical exercises to the extent required by the Students' Regulations of UVLF in Košice, credit is awarded after meeting the specified criteria. During the semester, students prepare semester works related to solving certain cases from forensic veterinary medicine and veterinary legislation, too.

Final assessment:

state oral exam