Key Information
CPD Hours: 42 hours
Course Length: Six weeks
Course Format: An intensive tutor-moderated online learning experience. Resources include online presentations, self-assessment tasks, supplementary reading material and discussion forums in which participants review and discuss cases with their colleagues and the tutors
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Course Information
- Identifying problems, monitoring solutions
- Detection of diseases and disorders: diagnostics!
- Feeding for health and production
- Environment- natural & built
- Control of infectious disease
- Fertility
- Neonates- the special case
Unhappy dealing with farm population-based medicine? Feeling apprehensive about approaching herd or flock level problems?
This course will take an integrative approach to herd and flock health. It will address all the main population health themes, using a decision-making process that is transferable between sheep and cattle. It will address the common principles of control, looking at and emphasising common patterns in different diseases and production parameters across multiple systems, helping make vets more confident in dealing with population medicine, and giving you the skills to work through population problems.
The course will integrate webinars, reading materials and self-assessment tasks to provide learning materials to suit all styles, along with discussion forums to ask questions from the expert panel.
Why do this course?
This course delivers cattle and sheep population medicine in a thematic way, using an integrative approach for decision-making in herd and flock health. Attendees will be provided with a range of learning materials, helping you develop skills in identifying common patterns in different diseases, and giving you greater confidence in understanding how to approach population problems.
JP Crilly, MA VetMB CertAVP PGCertVetEd DipECSRHM MRCVS
Lecturer in Small Ruminant Health and Flock Management
Sophie Mahendran, BVMedSci BVMBVS(Hons) MSc(VEPH) DipECBHM PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS
RCVS Specialist in Cattle Health & Production
The Royal Veterinary College
Peter Plate, Dr.med.vet DipECBHM FHEA MRCVS
Lecturer in Livestock Veterinary Extension Services
The Royal Veterinary College
Beth Reilly, BVetMed PGDipVCP PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS
Farm Animal Teaching Fellow
The Royal Veterinary College