A complete and total update on Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming with the most comprehensive and effective program on the online educational market”

The swine sector requires, now more than ever, professionals who can respond to the daily challenges of pig production and clinical practice in swine farming. However, continuing training after completing undergraduate studies is sometimes complicated because it is difficult to balance it with family and work life. So, this TECH online program is an opportunity for swine professionals to continue training and specializing in order to improve their daily work as a veterinary technician on farms and also to access other jobs of greater responsibility in integrators, cooperatives and consulting firms.

Undoubtedly, pork is one of the main meats consumed in the world. This postgraduate diploma in Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming delves into the growing livestock sector.  

This intensive program deals with the most important aspects of Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming so veterinary professionals acquire specialized, global and complete knowledge of the swine sector. It is taught by a team of professors with experience in teaching, research and practice in farming and insemination centers.    

The program in Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming provides veterinary professionals with specific and specialized training in stabilizing and monitoring patients, as well as diagnosing and treating the most important swine pathologies in this field.  

In addition to the theoretical knowledge, the course authors contribute their vision, advice and experience, making this postgraduate diploma a unique training, given the exhaustively practical contents and professional advice.  

All the modules include recommended scientific literature, photographs and videos of the authors doing their work in order to place veterinary professionals in practical scenarios for each case that can later be transferred to their clinical work.  

The postgraduate diploma in Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming contains the most complete and up-to-date academic program on the market. The contents are accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection, which guarantees students will be able to use their available time to achieve their objective of gaining a higher qualification. Furthermore, the program's methodological design integrates the latest advances in educational technology, facilitating students' learning. 

Join the elite, with this highly effective program and open new pathways to help you advance in your professional progress"

The postgraduate diploma in Gestation and Maternity Management in Swine Farming contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software 
• A highly virtual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand  
• Practical cases presented by practicing experts 
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems 
• Teaching supported by telepractice  
• Continuous updating and recycling systems 
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification 
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums 
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection 
• Supplementary documentation databases that are permanently available, even after finishing the course

A complete program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all the specialized areas of veterinarian intervention"

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the up-to-date knowledge we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this program. 

The efficiency of the methodological design of this Postgraduate Diploma, enhances the student's understanding of the subject. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your learning.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use online learning:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

Our innovative online learning concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

With the experience of working professionals and the analysis of real cases of success, in a high-impact learning approach”

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for the working world. An objective that is complemented, moreover, in a global manner, by promoting human development that lays the foundations for a better society. This objective is materialized in helping professionals to reach a much higher level of competence and control. A goal that, in just a few months you will be able to achieve, with a highly intensive and effective training. 

If your objective is to broaden your skills set to include new pathways of success and development, this is the course for you: A program that aspires to excellence" 

General Objectives

• Establish an appropriate methodology to manage sows during gestation, farrowing and lactation 
• Identify and analyze the critical points in sow gestation, farrowing and lactation phases 
• Gain specialized knowledge of sow diets throughout the productive cycle and incorporate the requirements of the new hyperprolific genetic lines 
• Specify the work on a pig farm from insemination to the end of lactation, and manage resources, analysis and methods to achieve objectives 
• Identify all the critical points of piglet environmental needs from birth 
• Establish the basis to correctly manage newborns in the nursery 
• Establish proper piglet placement and adoption process protocols 
• Develop the keys to properly manage weaning and subsequent phases 
• Maximize animal welfare in all its phases based on fundamental key points
• Deepen knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of the most frequent infectious diseases in pigs during gestation and maternity phases
• Establish an appropriate methodology to identify the infectious processes  
• Develop plans for resolution, control and clinical treatment of infectious diseases of interest in swine in the productive phases of gestation and maternity 
• Analyze the legal measures established for the surveillance and control of infectious diseases in swine in gestation and maternity 
• Establish criteria to carry out bibliographic searches and analysis of the different diseases in the gestation and maternity phase
• Identify the different types of reproductive failure on farms  
• Establish the causes of embryonic and fetal mortality during gestation  
• Evaluate the incidence of reproductive infections both after insemination and after parturition 
• Demonstrate that management failures are the origin of many reproductive pathologies 
• Substantiate reproductive seasonality in sows

Specific Objectives

Module 1

• Manage facilities during gestation, farrowing and lactation 
• Present sow gestation, farrowing and lactation physiology
• Diagnose the most frequent physiological problems in gestation and how to deal with them
• Learn the fundamentals of gestation diagnosis in sows 
• Identify the problems in gestation and differentiate the management guidelines to be taken in each situation 
• Define the fundamentals of sow nutrition and requirements during gestation, farrowing and lactation 
• Establish the key points associated with hyperprolific lines and study how to address them
• Analyze the organization and management of the sow cycle and the available resources

Module 2

• Examine the different types of facilities and environmental needs in the different phases after piglet birth 
• Recognize the critical points of neonatal management to reduce mortality and pathologies  
• Determine the physiological and ethological needs of piglets and mothers to guarantee welfare 
• Analyze the appropriate methodology to minimize the negative effects of weaning  
• Propose new alternative protocols to surgical castration: lymphocastration

Module 3

• Identify the main problems caused by infectious pathology during gestation and maternity 
• Define the economic and sanitary importance of infectious diseases in swine during gestation and maternity  
• Delve deeper into the process and method of diagnosis used in the field for each disease 
• Establish treatment plans for the main swine diseases during gestation and maternity 
• Propose and develop control and prevention plans for the main swine diseases during gestation and maternity 
• Analyze and solve proposed clinical cases  
• Demonstrate the necessary agility to deal with infectious diseases in swine

Module 4

• Define the types of repeat estrus 
• Present prevention methods for "dirty" sow syndrome 
• Examine the metritis, mastitis and agalactia syndrome involved in Delivery and Postpartum dysgalactia syndrome 
• Discuss the different symptoms that can occur in sows with ovarian cysts 
• Demonstrate the influence of mycotoxins on reproduction
• Differentiate anestrus from pseudo-anestrus
• Evaluate the role of water in preventing certain urinary and reproductive pathologies

A path to achieve specialization and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market".