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Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA)

08.10. - 10.10.2009, Freiburg

The FoalinMare: Insights inside the foaling mare – An animated educational tool for enhancing veterinary training

Workshop

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung - GMA. Freiburg im Breisgau, 08.-10.10.2009. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2009. Doc09gmaTMW165

doi: 10.3205/09gma165, urn:nbn:de:0183-09gma1653

Veröffentlicht: 2. September 2009

© 2009 Govaere et al.
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Gliederung

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Objectives: In comparison with other domestic animals, parturition in the horse is a fast and almost explosive event. Mostly it takes place in an uncomplicated manner, but when difficulties arise, adequate veterinary intervention can be life saving. Most of these life saving interventions can only be learned from bitter experience, with all the consequences which this involves.

The objectives of this project were to provide veterinary surgeons and students, grooms and horse owners with more ‘insights inside’ the foaling mare. This was done by creating a model to visualize the entire birth process from stage I through stage III.

Materials and Methods: Artists created a computer-aided design of an anatomic model of a pregnant mare. Computer Generated Imaging (CGI) was used to generate countless images for each sequence in order to produce live action footage. All details thus captured were checked by renowned specialists in equine obstetrics, and scientific considerations prevailed in the design.

Besides the animation of the normal birth process, many other animations were made. For example, four different presentations, 15 different malpostures and several malpositions of the foal were used as points of departure. Finally, some pre- and postpartum complications, such as uterine torsion and inversion of the bladder and retained fetal membranes were also animated. The entire production comes along with voice-overs in English and Spanish.

Results and Conclusions: In total, 26 scenes were created, all together forming about 35 minutes of animated film. A powerful tool has thus been made for enhancing and improving the education and training of practitioners, veterinary students and grooms in the field of equine obstetrics.