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GENERAL PRACTITIONER ADVANCED CERTIFICATE
          SWINDON, UK



          SMALL ANIMAL MEDICINE







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          Cardiovascular medicine            Urology                            •  Recognise how to diagnose
                                                                                  and manage emerging
          •  Describe how to identify and    •  Evaluate the current literature   conditions including
            manage arrhythmias                 on the aetiopathogenesis and       mycobacterial diseases and
          •  Appraise the current literature   management of chronic renal        cutaneous and renal glomerular
            on the management of canine        failure                            vasculopathy
            cardiac diseases                 •  Describe the therapeutic        •  Describe the clinical signs,
          •  Appraise the current literature   approach to the patient with       diagnosis and management of
            on the management of feline        acute renal failure                imported diseases including
            cardiac diseases                 •  Recognise the pathophysiology     ehrlichiosis, leishmaniosis and
          •  Review the cardiac biomarkers     of glomerular disease in dogs      babesiosis
            and their clinical use in dogs   •  Explain how to diagnose and
            and cats                           manage a dog with glomerular      5
          •  Discuss the application           disease
            of interventional cardiac        •  Evaluate and manage the         Emergency medicine
            procedures                         patient with a non-responsive    and critical care
          •  Understand the basic principle    urinary tract infection
            of echocardiography and its      •  Describe the diagnosis and      •  Interpret the results of blood
            role in the diagnosis of cardiac   management of ureteric             gas analysis
            diseases                           diseases                         •  Describe the latest
                                                                                  developments in blood
            2                                  4                                  transfusion medicine
                                                                                •  Explain how to identify and
          Medical neurology                  Infectious diseases                  manage shock and systemic
                                                                                  inflammatory response
          •  Understand the principles of    •  Discuss molecular testing for     syndrome
            functional neuroanatomy            infectious diseases              •  Explain how to sedate the
          •  Discuss advances in the         •  Evaluate the current literature   critically ill patient
            aetiopathogenesis and              on the diagnosis and             •  Appreciate the advances in
            management of seizures             management of leptospirosis        analgesia for patients with
          •  Recognise how to diagnose       •  Review advances in the            medical disorders
            and manage disorders of            diagnosis and management of      •  Discuss the indications for
            peripheral nerves                  feline infectious peritonitis      continuous renal replacement
          •  Discuss how to manage           •  Appreciate the aetiology,         therapies
            inflammatory disorders of the      epidemiology and management
            CNS                                of polysystemic protozoal
          •  Describe the diagnosis and        infections
            management of muscle
            disorders







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