Exotic Animal Veterinary Continuing Education Courses
Animal Exotics Online Learning Program
Post Graduate Qualification Pathway
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Animal Exotics Online Learning 2023
A 14 module completely online, comprehensive Animal Exotic Practice study programs with a structured route towards postgraduate certification
Exotic pets often fill veterinary surgeons with dread when they come through the consult room door. Lack of up to date knowledge and skills means these patients can be both challenging and stressful.
This program is designed to help you consolidate your knowledge of exotic medicine and surgery and develop an informed and comfortable clinical approach to these exotic patients – and give them practice-wide gold standard care.
This program has been developed by Improve International Ltd UK and provides up to date knowledge across a range of different zoological and exotic species**. A logical approach, from the initial examination and diagnostic sample collection, to anaesthesia, diagnostic imaging and the workup and treatment of common and more complex diseases, is a core objective of the program. It also covers the latest techniques and therapeutic options for selected exotic animals and will give you knowledge and skills to treat your exotic patients .
The Animal Exotics Program Online Learning is accredited by the International School of Veterinary Post Graduate Studies ISVPS as a training program for the General Practitioner Certificate in Exotic Animal Practice.
*All registration fees for ISVPS are included in the course fees for this program
** Please read the module learning objectives for fulll details on species covered as these are predominantly focus on European/Northern hemisphere species not Australian/tropical species.
Course Highlights
- 14 varied modules covering key exotic animal subjects
- Support and guidance each month from your Module tutor, a recognised Specialist in their field
- Online discussion board - ask your dedicated module specialist questions and discuss your tricky cases with other global delegates
- Manageable program format - 100% online, with each module built around 4 weekly interactive lessons
- Consolidating case-based sessions
- Multiple learning processes with presentations, quizzes, interactive activities - all designed specifically for engagement and reflection during online learning
- Work towards an internationally recognised post-graduate qualification in the General Practitioner Certificate in Exotic Animal Practice
- Dedicated Course Director, Professor Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS who will oversee the global program and exotic animal content.
Animal Exotics Online Learning
- Dates: 1 July 2023 - 30 November 2024
- Format: 14 Online Modules
- Duration 17 months
- CPD Units: 192
- GPCert in Exotic Animal Practice
- ISVPS Accredited Training
- Price: $12,999.00 incl GST
(includes all ISVPS registration fees)
An initial $1000 deposit will secure your place in this program. Registrations are limited.
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Animal Exotics Online Learning
Clinical Pathology
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Understand how to collect diagnostic samples including sampling sites and blood volumes, faecal, urine and bone marrow samples
- Interpret haematological and biochemical profiles based on knowledge
of normal values and the changes which occur in disease processes - Evaluate bone marrow samples
- Describe how to collect and evaluate cytological samples
- Appreciate microbiological investigation of exotic animals
Therapeutics and Immunisation
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Revise the correct storage, dispensing and labelling of medicines
- Understand the pharmacokinetics, potential interactions and adverse effects of common therapeutic agents including anaesthetics, anti-inflammatories, analgesics, anti- microbials and anti-parasitics.
- Describe what immunisation options exist for exotic patients
- Delivery of drugs to exotic pets and zoo animal
Principles of Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Emergency and Critical Care
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Identify the type of fluid replacement required
- Calculate fluid requirements
- Appreciate different administration techniques and cannulation techniques
- Select appropriate agents for the restraint, pre-medication, induction and maintenance of anaesthesia
- Monitor anaesthesia
- Apply knowledge of emergency and resuscitation techniques in anaesthesia to clinical situations if required
- Understand the basic principles of emergency and critical care medicine of exotic pets
Biology, Nutrition, Husbandry and Diseases of Other Pets and Invertebrates
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Review the husbandry and diseases of small pet marsupials such as sugar gliders, wallabies and opossums and how to treat them
- Outline the husbandry and diseases of pet skunks and how to treat them
- Describe the husbandry and diseases of Procyonids such as the raccoon, coatimundi and kinkajou and how to treat them
- Explain the husbandry and diseases of Herpestids such as the dwarf mongoose and meerkat and how to treat them
- Understand the husbandry and diseases of Asiatic short clawed otters and how to treat them
- Review the husbandry and diseases of African pygmy hedgehogs and how to treat them
- Detail the husbandry and diseases of Prairie dogs and how to treat them
- Increase your knowledge on the husbandry and common conditions affecting pet amphibians and how to treat them
- Outline the husbandry and diseases of commonly kept invertebrates and how to treat them
Current Concepts in Surgery
Module Speaker:
Prof. Stephen Divers BVetMed, DZooMed, DECZM(Herp), DECZM(ZHM), DACZM, FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Understand basic surgical techniques, surgical neutering and coelomic surgery
- Use knowledge gained to implant microchips
- Apply knowledge gained to performing various oesophagostomy techniques
- Describe how to repair shell and beak defects
- Explain the use of radiosurgery in exotics
- Approach the orthopaedic patient and understand the common fracture
types in different species, the principles of internal and external
fracture repair and muscle tendon adhesions
Avian Medicine and Surgery
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Explain the investigation and treatment of gastro-intestinal diseases in birds
- Investigate and treat diseases of the upper and lower airways
including the nares, sinuses, and infections such as Chlamydophilosis
and Aspergillosis - Approach beak and feather disease and feather plucking
- Understand urogenital tract disease including excessive egg laying, egg binding, cloacal disease and orchitis
- Manage trauma cases including fractures
Biology, Nutrition, Husbandry and Common Diseases of Mice, Rats, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Chinchillas, Degus and Gerbils
Module Speaker:
Richard A. Saunders BSc (Hons) BVSc FRSB CBiol DZooMed (Mammalian) DipECZM(ZHM) MRCVS RCVS Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (Mammalian) European Specialist in Zoological Medicine (ZHM)
Key learning objectives:
- Describe the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of common skin
diseases including ectoparasitic, bacterial, viral, fungal and endocrine
disorders - Understand diseases affecting the gastro-intestinal tract including
Tyzzer's disease, wet tail, dental malocclusions and coccidiosis - Transform your approach to the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disorders
- Approach the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine conditions
- Develop your understanding the diseases which affect the reproductive and urinary tracts
- Appreciate conditions which affect the CNS
- Understand sebaceous gland dermatitis, reproductive and adrenal
gland disease affecting the skin and behavioural induced skin disease in
gerbils
Biology, Nutrition, Husbandry and Common Diseases of Rabbits
Module Speaker:
Richard A. Saunders BSc (Hons) BVSc FRSB CBiol DZooMed (Mammalian) DipECZM(ZHM) MRCVS RCVS Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (Mammalian) European Specialist in Zoological Medicine (ZHM)
Key learning objectives:
- Diagnose and treat dermatological diseases
- Investigate and treat gastrointestinal diseases including motility disturbances, mucoid enteropathy and diarrhoea
- Formulate a treatment plan for dental disease including overgrown
teeth and traumatic injuries to teeth, treatment of abscesses and caries - Be familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory tract disease including Pasteurellosis
- Understand conditions affecting the musculoskeletal and nervous systems including vestibular disease
- Investigate and treat reproductive and urinary tract diseases
- Describe common infectious diseases such as E cuniculi, myxomatosis and viral haemorrhagic disease
Biology, Nutrition, Husbandry and Diseases of Ferrets and Fish
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Diagnose and treat ectoparasitic, bacterial, fungal, viral and neoplastic skin disease in ferrets
- Investigate and treat diseases affecting the gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital systems in ferrets
- Understand infectious diseases in ferrets such as distemper, tuberculosis, Aleutian disease and human influenza
- Assess disease patterns, environmental factors and fish husbandry
and apply these to quarantine and disease prevention strategies - Perform clinical examinations and have a knowledge of anaesthesia, medication and therapeutics with respect to fish
- Diagnose and treat common skin diseases, ocular disorders,
respiratory and internal disease and have an understanding of the
principles of fish surgery
Diagnostic Imaging
Module Speakers:
Charly Pignon DVM, Dipl. ECZM
Key learning objectives:
- Appreciate the value of imaging techniques in mammals, reptiles and avian species including:
- Review radiography and radiology of soft tissues and the skeleton
- Revise contrast media techniques
- Describe ultrasonography and echocardiography of exotic patients
- Become familiar with the principles of endoscopy including the respiratory, gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts
Reptile Medicine and Surgery
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Formulate an approach to the sick reptile including post hibernation anorexia and hypocalcaemic collapse
- Diagnose and treat dermatological conditions including dysecdysis,
scale rot and abscesses and metabolic, nutritional and infectious bone
and shell disorders - Diagnose and treat common gastroenterological disorders including mouth rot, vomiting and regurgitation and liver disease
- Approach respiratory and cardiovascular disease including pneumonia and lungworm
- Investigate respiratory tract and reproductive disease
- Understand the common infectious diseases of reptiles
Wildlife Medicine
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Formulate an approach to the restraint, anaesthesia and trauma management of wild birds and mammals
- Diagnose and manage common disorders of the following wildlife
species: the red fox, badger, hedgehog, bats, deer, small mustelids
(Weasels, Stoat, Polecat, Pine Martens), otter, wild cats, squirrels,
wild lagomorphs, seals, rodents, wild birds, reptiles and amphibians - Approach rehabilitation of wildlife
- Understand the zoonotic diseases which affect particular species of wildlife
Primate Biology and Medicine
Module Speakers:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Diagnose, treat and prevent ectoparasitic, bacterial, viral, fungal and neoplastic skin diseases
- Understand gastrointestinal disease including bacterial gastroenteritis, gastric dilation, diarrhoea and dental caries
- Appreciate diseases affecting the cardio-respiratory system
- Describe metabolic/ nutritional bone disease, musculoskeletal and neurological disease, arthritis and limb fractures
- Investigate and treat infectious diseases
- Diagnose and treat diseases of the urogenital tract including endometrial, ovarian and mammary disease
Zoo Animal Management
Module Speaker:
Prof. Simon Girling BVMS (Hons) DZooMed DipECZM(ZHM) EurProBiol CBiol FRSB FRCVS
Key learning objectives:
- Approach the routine health-care management and common disease problems of zoo animals
- Review how to restrain zoo animals
- Understand drug delivery systems, immobilisation and anaesthetic regimes
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FAQ
What is the enrolment criteria?
You must be a graduated Veterinary Surgeon with a minimum of 1 year clinical experience, please check with Improve, to ensure your suitability. It is the responsibility of the delegate to ensure you meet the program entry criteria.
When is the learning content available for each module?
- At the beginning of the month, the content for weeks 1 and 2 will be released
- At the beginning of the 3rd week of the month, the remaining content will be released
Who can enrol in the Online Learning programs?
All applicants must:
- Hold a veterinary qualification
- Have spent a minimum of one year in veterinary practice
What additional learning resources are available?
- Online interactive lessons
- Notes to support every lesson
- Reading list
- Module Tutor (diploma holder in their field)
- Programme Tutor
- Discussion Forum
- Pre and post-module questions
- Summary videos at the end of each week
How many hours per week will I have to spend on the program?
You will spend on average 3-4 hours per week. Preparation of assessments and revising for the final exam is additional depending on your route.
Can I defer a module?
Online modules cannot be deferred without losing the real-time interactive engagement with the Module Tutor
What does the GPCert consist of?
- Complete the full online structured programme
- Case report (2,500 words)
- Online spot test exam
- Multiple choice examination
- ISVPS are responsible for invigilation of the exam using an independent invigilation company
- See the assessment criteria on the diagram of the route to a GPCert in the brochure
When do the online GPCert exams take place?
Is the GPCert all online?
Yes, all the requirements for the ISVPS are online
How do I submit my case report for the GPCert?
Full details of the ISVPS processes are made available after you have registered with the ISVPS. You will be given a login to the Candidates Area after registration. ISVPS also have individual contact points for each country. australia@isvps.org is the Australian contact address and any questions can be sent to this address for follow-up.
How do I pay the registration fees for GPCert?
- Registration is made directly to ISVPS – you will be provided with contact details allowing you to complete their registration form.
- All ISVPS registration fees are included in the Improve International Australia Feline Practice Online Learning costs – there are no further costs to pay
- Ideally, the decision to aim for the GPCert should be made within the first 2 months of the program start. This allows delegates to benefit from access to the ISVPS candidates' area.
- The deadline for the ISVPS certificate registration is one year in advance of the first assessment deadline
- e.g. If you are undertaking the 2021-2022 Feline Practice Online Learning Program, you should register for the 2023 examination dates. The first assessment deadline and full dates are to be provided by ISVPS
How long do I have to complete the whole program?
The program must be completed within 6 months of the final module. GPCert candidates then have up to four years to satisfy ISVPS assessment requirements and obtain the GPCert.
I'm not based in Australia. Can I still complete the program and obtain the GPCert?
Yes. Location of study does not affect/change this global program. We can accept delegates across Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific region. Additionally, all content is pre-recorded so can be viewed at any time of day (i.e. time zone differences will not impact your access to content). However, you may need to allow extra time for tutor responses (as tutors will be based in Australia). If you intend to sit the GPCert qualification through ISVPS, this is online. Please contact the ISVPS directly for further information (australia@isvps.org).
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