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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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