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Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice (CertAVP)

Are you interested in continuing your For more information, visit www.rvc.ac.uk/certavp or call 01707 666201
veterinary studies? Then perhaps Here are some of the things people had to say about their CertAVP studies:
the CertAVP is for you. CertAVP is a
flexible way to achieve a veterinary “ I can now communicate more effectively with clients
post-graduate qualification. It is run and provide them higher quality service and advice. ”
as a distance learning assessment
only programme. “ Studying for my designated small animal medicine

You are assessed in modules to suit your certificate, I thought that doing assignments on other
learning needs, and if you wish to obtain areas of my practice would not be useful nor interesting.
the post nominal CertAVP, you must I am happy to have been wrong on both fronts!
achieve 60 credits. Having a designated ”
CertAVP will also help you achieve the “
RCVS Advanced Practitioner status. Although initially a challenge for me to break old
The aim of the assessment process habits and approach cases in a different way, I have
at the RVC is not only to support you been very impressed by the problem-based approach,
to fully understand the quality of your as it helped me see the wood for the trees. ”
current clinical practice but also to foster
life-long learning skills and to advance “
and enhance your clinical knowledge, As I progressed through the [AFAVP] module,
skills and understanding. We provide the better I understood what self-reflection
detailed formative and summative entailed and the ability to more effectively analyse
feedback on all submitted work and have
CPD courses that support many of the my actions has made me more compassionate,
learning objectives of CertAVP modules. empathetic and ultimately a better vet. ”

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