With this comprehensive program in Ultrasound in Small Animals that has been carefully designed by experts, become one of the professionals who are currently in great demand”

Ultrasound scanning is a universal, non-invasive, real-time technique that provides very accurate diagnostic information. Ultrasound examinations are gaining great importance in everyday practice, and it is increasingly common among veterinary medicine professionals to include them in their diagnostic protocols. 

The applications of ultrasound scanning are very broad, covering studies of almost all parts of the patient’s body, so it has become the cornerstone in veterinary clinic or hospital organization charts. Included within diagnostic imaging, it is gradually becoming its own entity, an external service required by many veterinary clinics. Mobile companies are even being created for this purpose. 

Ultrasound scans provide the veterinary professional with moving images of the structures being studied, as well as information on the condition of the different tissues. It also allows samples to be taken and uses contrast to refine diagnoses. 

This method of work requires a detailed study by the person in charge of performing the scans, since the reliability of the technique depends heavily on the veterinarian's expertise in interpreting the images observed. 

The professional master’s degree in Ultrasound in Small Animals is a specialization that treats Ultrasound Scanning as a separate entity within clinical practice, with the aim of obtaining highly qualified professionals. It addresses, among many other aspects, the most advanced applications of the technique, such as ultrasound-guided punctures and biopsies. 

All of the modules include a large amount of multimedia material: photos, videos and diagrams, which are highly important in a specialty where imaging techniques are relevant, for example, in surgery. 

As it is an online professional master’s degree, students are not hindered by fixed timetables, nor do they need to commute to another location. All the content can be accessed at any time of the day, so you can balance your professional or personal life with your academic life. 

This program offers the principles and tools for you to become an expert in Veterinary Ultrasound taught by recognized professionals with extensive experience in the sector.  

A professional master’s degree that will enable you to work in all fields of veterinary ultrasound with the competence of a high-level professional”

This professional master’s degree in Ultrasound in Small Animals offers you all the features of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological course. These are some of its most notable features: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software 
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are 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 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection 
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course  

Learn from real cases with this highly effective educational professional master’s degree and open up new paths to your professional progress"

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 update program we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different settings, who will work through theoretical content in an efficient way but, above all, will make available their own practical knowledge derived from experience: one of the distinguishing features of this specialist course.

Command of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this professional master’s degree in Ultrasound in Small Animals. 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 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 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. 

Professionals with extensive experience will teach you how to approach an ultrasound scan correctly in abdominal cavity exploration"

As the course is online, you will be able to train wherever and whenever you want, balancing your personal and professional life"

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for the working A goal that you will reach in just a few months and that will allow you to achieve professional excellence. 

If your objective is to broaden your skill set to include new paths of success and development, this is your professional master’s degree: training that aspires to excellence" 

General Objectives

• Introduce the physical principles of an ultrasound scanner, as well as its basic operation in order to understand what we visualize in an ultrasound image and how to obtain it
• Study the different types of probe, their classification and purpose
• Determine the different ways in which an ultrasound scanner can be used 
• Propose an adequate positioning of the patient for an ultrasound examination 
• Perform a correct ultrasound approach in exploring the abdominal cavity 
• Assimilate and reinforce the location and positioning of the viscera, an element in this module
• Identify the correct scanning technique for each organ 
• Correlate the anatomy of the viscera with its physiological ultrasound image
• Perform a correct ultrasound approach in exploring the abdominal cavity 
• Assimilate and reinforce the location and positioning of the viscera, an element in this module 
• Identify the correct scanning technique for each organ 
• Correlate the anatomy of the viscera with its physiological ultrasound image
• Acquire knowledge on Doppler operation
• Determine the types of Doppler that exist and their uses
• Study of abdominal pathologies detected by ultrasound Doppler
• Be familiar with other useful applications beyond the traditional scanning modes 
• Learn how to identify which structures can be explored using ultrasound 
• Study the protocol to be followed in ultrasound-guided interventions 
• Identify the main blocks using ultrasound-guidance 
• Establish the basics of pulmonary ultrasonography in cats, and the main pathological signs
• Review feline pathologies that can be diagnosed using abdominal ultrasonography 
• Determine the situations in which it is advisable to perform a cervical ultrasound scan and which findings may be pathological 
• Take a closer look at the uses of Doppler ultrasound beyond echocardiography 
• List the possible complementary techniques for use with conventional ultrasound 
• Determine which organs or cavities can be evaluated by ultrasound-guided cytology
• Establish ultrasonography as a diagnostic imaging tool in exotic animals or new companion animals (NCA) 
• Study the difficulties of diagnostic ultrasound in different species 
• Develop specialized knowledge for the correct ultrasound interpretation of NCA anatomy 
• Identify the advantages of ultrasound scanning over other diagnostic imaging tests in small mammals, birds and reptiles
• Develop a comprehensive echocardiographic examination protocol 
• Build confidence for conducting different echocardiographic cuts 
• Optimize the image to achieve a correct and accurate examination 
• Determine the different echocardiographic measures applied in veterinary cardiology
• Develop the ability to interpret echocardiographic images of the most common diseases 
• Effectively assess each disease and be able to stage it 
• Differentiate between the different diseases that can be detected by echocardiography 
• Improve reporting capabilities 
• Increase your knowledge of the jargon used in ultrasonography 
• Record and save studies and images in the most appropriate manner 
• Increase skills for describing organs and lesions using technical terms 

Specific Objectives

• Establish the fundamentals of ultrasound physics and how a scan is performed with image formation 
• Determine the different ultrasound artifacts so as to avoid misinterpretation 
• Identify the basic operation system of an ultrasound scanner in order to make the best use of it 
• Establish the different types of probe and their function 
• List the different uses for which an ultrasound scanner can be used 
• Propose a system for preparing patients before an ultrasound examination 
• Master physiological image identification 
• Identify and recognize ultrasound findings 
• Recognize the main pathologies affecting the previously mentioned organs 
• Differentiate between incidental and relative findings 
• Establish a correlation between ultrasound findings and clinical signs 
• Form the most frequent differential diagnoses 
• Propose appropriate complementary tests 
• Master physiological image identification 
• Identify and recognize ultrasound findings 
• Recognize the main pathologies affecting the previously mentioned organs 
• Differentiate between incidental and relative findings 
• Establish a correlation between ultrasound findings and clinical signs 
• Form the most frequent differential diagnoses 
• Propose appropriate complementary tests 
• Study the physical principles of a Doppler 
• Obtain a correct ultrasound beam for accurate flow study 
• Differentiate between vein flow and artery flow 
• Use vascular indices of vascular resistance and pulsatility 
• Evaluate vascularization in organs and masses 
• Identify structures by absence or presence of flow 
• Detect vascular alterations 
• Assess thromboembolisms and infarctions 
• Determine how to perform an organized and concise examination of the thoracic and cervical structures 
• Perform serial and structured follow-up in emergency ultrasonography 
• Establish a correct technique for administering anesthesia with the help of ultrasound 
• Conduct a good screening and follow-up of pregnancy cases 
• Interpret findings that may show up in pediatric and geriatric animals 
• Recognize the signs of a healthy lung 
• Differentiate between the different findings in pulmonary ultrasound and be familiar with the different pathologies that can be correlated with these findings 
• Perform a FAST ultrasound scan on the emergency feline patient 
• Use ultrasound to determine the main pathologies in abdominal organs and their correlation 
• Study the most common findings in the feline kidney and how to differentiate between acute and chronic kidney disease 
• Reliably measure the different renal structures (pelvis, ureter) and consider their possible differential diagnoses when they are altered 
• Differentiate between the different types of alteration in the gastrointestinal tract and their association with different feline diseases 
• Use abdominal ultrasound scans to diagnose biliary tract pathologies 
• Perform correct gestational diagnoses in cats 
• Incorporate the use of Doppler ultrasound to diagnose vascular pathologies 
• Incorporate the use of Doppler ultrasound to diagnose neoplastic pathologies 
• Use ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in pathologies affecting the cervix 
• Safely and effectively use ultrasound-guided punctures on a regular basis in organs, masses or cavities (gall bladder, cysts, etc.) 
• Determine when it is advisable to use contrasts in abdominal ultrasound scans and what information they can provide 
• Develop containment and positioning methods for the ultrasound study of small mammals, birds and reptiles 
• Study existing ultrasound equipment and diagnostic options 
• Determine the ultrasound protocol for small mammals: rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs and small rodents 
• Determine the ultrasound protocol for birds and reptiles 
• Determine the anatomical references for New Companion Animals (NCA) in ultrasonography 
• Identify ultrasound findings in the most common pathologies of New Companion Animals (NCA) 
• Evaluate the different possibilities provided by ultrasound in daily clinical practice with New Companion Animals (NCA) 
• Determine ultrasound equipment requirements for echocardiographic studies 
• Establish the different physical principles that generate echocardiographic images 
• Work on the different types of images used in echocardiography 
• Provide key criteria for implementing the Doppler mode in echocardiography 
• Assess the size of the cardiac chambers using echocardiography 
• Assess systolic and diastolic function using echocardiography 
• Assess and study valvular heart disease 
• Identify echocardiographic signs for detecting pulmonary hypertension 
• Be able to differentiate between and diagnose canine and feline cardiomyopathies 
• Evaluate the pericardial cavity, as well as the layers that form the pericardium 
• Detect the different cardiac neoplasms 
• Establish the theoretical bases for pericardiocentesis 
• Study the different congenital conditions that can be found in small animals 
• Assess for cardiac parasites 
• Develop advanced echocardiography techniques 
• Correctly handle abdominal, cardiac, ophthalmic or other organ or system ultrasound reports 
• Standardize the way in which reports are carried out 
• Work on and interpret the most commonly used physiological and pathological measurements in ultrasound 
• Train students to elaborate differential diagnoses and to issue a definitive diagnosis 
• Gain knowledge about how to advise a clinician based on study results 

Incorporate the latest techniques in Ultrasound in Small Animals in your daily practice and improve diagnosis"