"A program of high scientific rigor, meticulously designed by professionals, with the most innovative and up-to-date content on the market" 

The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The more scientific support a legal decision has, the more justice it will impart. 

This is precisely the reason for the creation of this postgraduate diploma in Contentious-Administrative Veterinary Expertise, in which we count on the collaboration of authors directly related to Judicial Expertise with more than enough professional and teaching experience, experts from Schools of Legal Practice, Masters of Access to the Legal Profession, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who have previously taught Judicial Expertise Training Courses in the Veterinary branch. 

The postgraduate diploma will analyze in detail all the questions that may arise for a Veterinary Graduate who intends to enter the world of expertise in Courts. The objective of this training is to take the veterinary professionals through a complete development, enabling them through a solid training to be able to intervene with judgment and responsibility in any legal proceeding to which they may be called. 

Get a complete and adequate qualification in veterinary judicial expertise and open new paths to your professional progress"

This postgraduate diploma in Contentious-Administrative Veterinary Expertise offers you the characteristics of a course of a high scientific, teaching and technological level. These are some of its most notable features: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software 
• Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents, easy to assimilate and understand 
• Practical cases presented by practising 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 
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with internet connection 
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

With a methodological design that relies on teaching techniques proven for their effectiveness, this postgraduate diploma in Contentious-Administrative Veterinary Expertise will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, TECH ensure that we provide you with the up-to-date training 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, will put at the service of the course the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this training.  

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate diploma in Contentious-Administrative Veterinary Expertise. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-Learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, the students will be able to study with a set of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operability they need in their training. 

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 telepractice: 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 facing the scenario you are learning at that moment. A concept that will allow students to integrate and memorize what they have learnt in a more realistic and permanent way. 

Our innovative telepractice 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"

The objective is to train highly qualified professionals for work experience. 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 focused on helping medical professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that, in just six months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise course. 

If your goal is to redirect your skills to new paths of success and development, this is your program: a training that aspires to excellence"

General Objectives

• Become aware of being in possession of the necessary knowledge as a veterinary professional to be able to issue an expert report
• Know how to project the technical knowledge in the corresponding written report with the necessary wording and clarity so that it can be understood by all parties
• Acquire the necessary knowledge of the legislation on the functions of veterinary experts
• Examine and analyze specific cases that have been the subject of veterinary expert reports in court and the importance of these reports in resolving the specific case 
• Know the general principles of veterinary law and the different veterinary activities in which they are applied
• Acquire the necessary knowledge of what an expert opinion is
• Acquire the necessary skills and abilities to know how the veterinary expert should give an opinion 
• Become aware, in general, of the trial or hearing as one of the moments, probably the supreme one, of the judicial processes
• Become aware of the possibility of incurring liability as a consequence of the practice of the veterinary profession and of the judicial expertise 
• Know the ethics, dignity and professional discipline of the veterinary expert 
• Provide the professional with full knowledge of the operation of the livestock farm and the food industry, from the birth of the animal to its commercialization
• Know the common general principles that all criminal proceedings require in order to lay the foundations that will later guarantee the correct performance of the veterinary testimony or expertise

Specific Objectives

Module 1.

• Know how to respond to questions and objections on method, premises, conclusions and other aspects of the report 
• Be aware of the possibility of a complete exposition of the opinion, when such exposition requires the performance of other operations, complementary to the report provided, through the use of documents, materials and other necessary elements
• Be aware of and develop the capacity to respond to possible requests to extend the opinion to other related points, in case it could be carried out at the same time
• Know the expert's opinion on the possibility and usefulness of the extension, as well as the time required to carry it out
• Acquire the necessary knowledge of specific cases that have been the subject of veterinary expert reports in court

Module 2.

• Understand the meaning of Veterinary Law and know how to apply it in the resolution of problems of a legal nature that arise in the veterinary activity related to the expert activity
• Know the importance, significance and legal consequences of euthanasia in animals, both in clinical and forensic aspects and in animal experimentation
• Know the different contents of the veterinary forensic activity, as an activity to help in the judicial resolution of cases in which the animal, corpse or not, is an expert element, including the ability to follow a protocol for action at the scene of the crime, know how to properly identify an animal species (observational and molecular methods), to know the correct way to take biological samples for forensic studies and the importance of a correct planning of the anatomopathological examination to differentiate the different possible pathologies 
• Know how to differentiate between the different types of death, identifying the evidence prior to death, as well as the different biotic and abiotic phenomena that occur in a corpse
• Know how to establish the date of death, applying different chemical-physical-biological parameters, being important the knowledge of the insects that act on the corpse (cadaveric entomofauna)
• Know how to differentiate the different injuries that appear in an animal related to forensic traumatology produced by contusions, weapons, drowning, electricity, lightning, etc.
• Know the different intoxications that an animal can suffer through the clinical and lesional aspects, as well as the analytical aspects provided by chemistry. Know the different possibilities of chemical-toxicological analysis and the interpretation of the results obtained
• Know the necessary material to perform a necropsy and the correct protocolized performance of the necropsy, being able to apply this protocol in the different animal species that can be subject to it

Module 3.

• Understand the ethical-deontological bases and principles of the profession of the veterinary expert 
• Be familiar with the legal framework governing professional disciplinary liability. College Regulations
• Know the development of the disciplinary procedure, as well as their rights and obligations within it
• Know the sanctions they face in the sanctioning procedure and the ways to appeal, as well as the interpretation of the courts in this field 
• Acquire the basic knowledge of the contentious-administrative jurisdiction, its organs and jurisdictional competence
• Obtain a working knowledge of the types of administrative litigation proceedings and their peculiarities
• Know the general aspects of the judicial phase for the practice of the evidence in the contentious-administrative procedure
• Know the specificities of the legal expert and expert evidence in the Contentious-Administrative process
• Know and analyze the interpretation of the courts of the aspects related to the expert practice in the contentious-administrative procedure

A unique, key and decisive training experience to boost your professional development"