Biosecurity and Management

Provide knowledge on all the measures, policies and procedures useful for minimizing potential health risks in livestock farming. Provide knowledge on the main procedures for the prevention, control and eradication of infectious and parasitic diseases in animal husbandry. Provide the main individual biosecurity procedures. Provide knowledge to prevent the entry of pathogens and their spread in the farm. Provide knowledge on vaccine, antimicrobial, antiparasitic, diagnostic and nutritional approaches for the prevention and control of infections and infestations. Provide skills in the implementation and management of biosecurity plans for livestock farms; evaluation of farm biosecurity plans and implementation of preventive and corrective protocols of infectious and parasitic diseases including nutritional and immune aspects.

1. Knowledge and understanding: the student, at the end of the course, will have to demonstrate knowledge and ability to apply the main personal and company biosecurity procedures to be applied in farms.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will have to demonstrate that he/she possesses the knowledge and concepts useful to propose and apply the main biosecurity procedures. The student will have to demonstrate the ability to propose biosecurity plans and apply preventive and corrective protocols in different types of farms.
3. Critical and judgment skills: the student will be expected to demonstrate the ability to critically argue the information acquired. Specific exercises, group work and specific educational outings are aimed to evaluate and propose changes to existing field realities.
4. Communication: the student will have to demonstrate the ability to use scientifically appropriate terminology, in particular concerning the terminology referring to biosafety procedures. The exercises are intended to stimulate the ability to express oneself correctly and the ability to discuss scientifically with peers.
5. Lifelong learning skills: the student will have to demonstrate the ability to use the knowledge acquired to interpret any new hygienic-sanitary situations that require changes/implementation of corporate biosecurity, with the help of available sources of knowledge and a good mental organization.