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Webinar Plus: Recognising and Webinar: Practising quality-of-life Webinar Plus: Healthy and happy RECORDED
responding to animal abuse in veterinary assessment driven small animal medicine animals: Welfare beyond the five WEBINARS
practice freedoms

Monday 7th November NEW NEW Monday 23rd January 2023 NEW
to Sunday 4th December Friday 18th November to Sunday 19th February 2023
Would you like to know more about what you can do to help if you suspect We all agree that quality of life of our patients is “everything”. In contrast, Would you like to know how you can best support patient emotional Available to purchase and view at any time.
your patients or human clients are victims of abuse? as a profession we all pay surprisingly little attention to measuring and wellbeing as well as physical health? Our recorded webinars available include:
monitoring quality of life. Let’s change that!
Everyone responsible for an animal, including owners and veterinary Much progressive research argues that good animal welfare requires a • Effective clinical coaching –how can we get the best from our
professionals, has a duty of care to protect that animal’s health and welfare. Our veterinary oath dictates we should do everything in the interests shift away from simply preventing animal suffering and a move towards the coaches and students?
Compromised welfare, which leads to unnecessary animal suffering, can of the welfare of the animal under our care; we are also urged to practice promotion of positive, pleasurable experiences and states. While there are • How to bring your practice up to speed with hygiene and
have numerous causes ranging from unintentional neglect to intentional evidence-based medicine. In order to comply with both demands, it is many strategies routinely employed by veterinary professionals to help antimicrobial stewardship
cruelty. Unintentional neglect can often be easy for veterinary staff to essential we start measuring, documenting and monitoring the quality of reduce patient stress and promote positive physical and emotional states • Supporting students with specific learning differences in the
detect. Intentional cruelty on the other hand can be much more difficult to life of our patients. Treatment decisions, diagnostic decisions and even there is scope to do much more to cater for the species-specific and veterinary workplace
identify, and even when cruelty is suspected many frontline veterinary staff euthanasia decisions should be guided by this most important parameter. individual needs of the diverse array of animal patients encountered in Recorded Webinar Plus
may not know what steps they can or should take to intervene on an But if we don’t measure this most important parameter, how can we be contemporary veterinary practice. • Recorded Webinar Plus: Navigating the CertAVP A module
animal’s behalf. sure we are doing the right thing?
This course aims to provide you with an overview of recent developments
Why do this course? Why do this course? in animal welfare science, ethology and anthrozoology (incorporating For full library of recorded webinars and recorded Webinar
Plus courses please visit our website www.rvc.ac.uk/cpd
This course aims to provide you with an understanding of what constitutes This course will be of interest if you want to learn how to make animal ethics). Through the use of illustrative case studies you will be
abuse, and an overview of the legal and extra-legal ways in which animal scientifically validated quality of life assessment central to your introduced to some of the ways in which animal welfare can be improved
abuse can be defined, measured, punished and prevented. You will also consultations. in light of this emergent knowledge.
examine the links between animal cruelty and inter-human violence.
Key areas Why do this course?
Key areas • The scientific evidence that makes quality of life measurable Understanding the relationships between animal behaviour and welfare,
• Defining and identifying animal abuse in veterinary practice • Currently available tools to measure quality of life in pets and appreciating the different factors that can shape behaviour and impact
• Case studies including hoarding, neglect, sexual abuse, violence • The effects of quality of life measurement on the patient, the owner on welfare means you will be better placed to support your patients.
• Legislation designed to protect animal welfare and the veterinary team Key areas
• Resources for veterinary professionals • How you can start making quality of life assessment central to your • The evolution of welfare (definitions, legislation, research)
• Veterinary social work consults TOMORROW • Developments in ethology, anthrozoology and animal ethics
• The link between animal and human abuse You may also be interested in: • One Health and welfare
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• mpacts and support for victims and front-line staff (rescue, rehabilitation, Webinar Plus: Euthanasia and bereavement – understanding and
compassion fatigue, burn out, PTSD) This course can be purchased on its own or as part of a series with:
supporting your clients, your colleagues and yourself on page 13.
This course can be purchased on its own or as part of a series with: Book both and automatically receive a discount of £25 at the checkout. Webinar Plus: Anthrozoology for veterinary professionals – see page 12
Webinar Plus: Recognising and responding to animal abuse in veterinary
Webinar Plus: Anthrozoology for veterinary professionals – see page 12 Course details practice – see page 14
Webinar Plus: Healthy and happy animals: Welfare beyond the five Course type: Webinar
freedoms – see page 15 Course details
Course format: Live webinar with an opportunity for Q&A with the
Course details lecturer plus access to recorded version for 2 weeks Course type: Webinar Plus with a live weekly Q&A session
Course format: A mixture of weekly pre-recorded webinars (which can
Course type: Webinar Plus with a live weekly Q&A session Course length: 2 hours be reviewed throughout the course), live weekly Q&A sessions with the
Course format: A mixture of weekly pre-recorded webinars (which can CPD hours: 2 tutor, self-assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and
be reviewed throughout the course), live weekly Q&A sessions with the Course fee: £50* tutor-moderated online discussion forums
tutor, self-assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and *Recorded version will be available to purchase for £30 approximately Course length: 4 weeks
tutor-moderated online discussion forums 2 weeks after the live course date. CPD hours: Up to 16
Course length: 4 weeks Relevant to CertAVP module: Animal welfare, professional conduct
CPD hours: Up to 16 Tutor and veterinary ethics essay for the A Module (A-FAVP.1)
Relevant to CertAVP module: Animal welfare, professional conduct Stijn Niessen DVM PhD DipECVIM-CA PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS, Course fee: £379 for 1 course, £699 for 2 courses or £999 for all 3
and veterinary ethics essay for the A Module (A-FAVP.1) RCVS Recognised Specialist and EBVS® European Specialist in
Course fee: £379 for 1 course, £699 for 2 courses or £999 for all 3 Small Animal Internal Medicine, Medisch Centrum voor Dieren, Tutors
Amsterdam, Honorary Professor of Internal Medicine, RVC Alexander Badman-King PhD, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter
Tutors Fenella Eason PhD, Associate Lecturer Anthrozoology, University of Exeter
Fenella Eason PhD, Associate Lecturer Anthrozoology, University of Exeter Jessica Gröling PhD, Associate Lecturer Anthrozoology, University of Exeter
Jessica Gröling PhD, Associate Lecturer Anthrozoology, University of Exeter Samantha Hurn, PhD, Associate Professor and Programme Director
Samantha Hurn, PhD, Associate Professor and Programme Director MA and PhD Anthrozoology, University of Exeter
MA and PhD Anthrozoology, University of Exeter Emily Stone PhD, Research Associate Anthrozoology, University of Exeter
Ruth Serlin BVetMed CertVA PGCAP FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in
Veterinary Professionalism, RVC