Short courses FROM THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE BY DISTANCE LEARNING

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RVC 50 Hour Short Courses

50-hour short courses

These short courses have been designed as stand-alone courses for Continuing Professional Development, but they also allow you to sample a discrete learning unit.

Key points:

These courses are suitable for veterinarians and non-veterinary graduates, but with relevant
experience.
Upon application, all applicants will be informed within 3 weeks if they are eligible.
If you choose to be assessed, you may submit one Tutor Marked Assignment for marking.
Within the course material, there is a choice of questions to respond to and, if successful, a Certificate of Achievement would be sent to you.
Fee: £490 in 2011.

Courses available:

Course code	Course title
V50-100T	Advanced risk analysis using @ RISK software
V50-300T	Animal disease surveillance
V50-400U	Control of food safety: red meat, poultry, eggs, milk and milk products
V50-300W	Design and analysis of epidemiological investigations – observational and intervention studies
V50-500U	Development of a disease control programme: salmonella in pigs and bovine TB
V50-500T	Disease modelling
V50-200T	Herd health management
V50-100W	Introduction to statistics, hypothesis testing, study design and analysis of data
V50-100U	Introduction to veterinary public health, risk analysis and risk assessment
V50-200W	Principles, methodology and sampling in epidemiological investigations
V50-300U	Principles of food safety control and ‘farm to fork’ concept
V50-400W	Quantitative aspects of diagnostic testing and information management in epidemiological investigations
V50-500W	Tools for economic analysis in epidemiology
V50-200U	Zoonoses of parasitic, bacterial and viral origin

Application process

You apply by completing an application form [pdf: 7pgs, 241KB] or online. We will confirm your eligibility by mail, usually within three weeks of receiving your application. You will then be sent a registration form, which is to be completed and returned with the course fee.