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During the clinical rotation the students of the 9th and 10th study semesters within veterinary medicine are split up into groups of eight or nine. In these groups they spend some consecutive time within various different clinics and institutes of the department of veterinary medicine. Two of these days are spent at the Institute of Poultry Diseases. During this time they are supposed to go practically more in-depth with that what they have learned in the past few semesters. At the Institute of Poultry Diseases this course encompasses the laboratory course on the first day in the morning, the post-mortem examination on the first day in the afternoon, the poultry ambulance in poultry stocks around Berlin on the second day in the morning and practical propaedeutics on the second day in the afternoon. During those times that the clinical rotation poultry diseases was supplemented by the blended learning element, the two days were usually two Wednesdays with an interval of one week. As the routines at the Institute of Poultry Diseases do not allow the accompanyment accompaniment of current cases, the students were given the task of posting summaries and evaluations of published case reports between the two Wednesdays (Illustration 1).
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