A complete and totally up-to-date course in Swine Health and Clinical Practice with the most complete and effective program on the online educational market”

Undoubtedly, pork is one of the main meats consumed in the world. This postgraduate diploma in Swine Health and Clinical Practice delves into the growing livestock sector.

This intensive program deals with the most important aspects of Swine Health and Clinical Practice so veterinary professionals acquire specialized, global and complete knowledge of the swine sector. It is taught by a team of professors trained in teaching and research and with practical experience on farms and in Insemination Centers.

The program in Swine Health and Clinical Practice provides veterinary professionals with specific and specialized training in swine production and health, in stabilizing and monitoring patients, as well as diagnosing and treating the most common diseases in swine.

In addition to the theoretical knowledge, the authors of the course contribute their vision, advice and experience to this program, making this postgraduate diploma a unique learning experience, given the quality of its 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 that can later be transferred to their clinical work.

The postgraduate diploma in Swine Health and Clinical Practice contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The contents are accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection, which guarantees that students will be able to use their available time to achieve their objectives of gaining a better qualification. Furthermore, the program's methodological design integrates the latest advances in educational technology, facilitate students’ learning.

Join the elite with this highly effective postgraduate diploma, which will open new pathways for your professional development”

The postgraduate diploma in Swine Health and Clinical Practice contains the most complete and up to date educational program the market. The most important features of the program 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
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course 

A comprehensive educational program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all specialized areas of veterinary intervention”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals in different fields related to this specialty. That way, TECH ensures to offer students the up-to-date knowledge it intends to. 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 Professional Master's Degree, 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 easy to use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for your training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem Based Learning: An approach that conceives learning as an eminently practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH uses 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 students to integrate and focus their learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this innovative course will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective 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”

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for the work environment. 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 you will be able to achieve in just a few months, with a highly intensive and effective training.

If your objective is to broaden your skill set to include new pathways of success and development, this is your Professional Master's Degree: training that aspires to excellence"

General Objectives

• 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 analyses of the different diseases in the gestation and maternity phase
• Deepen knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of the most frequent infectious diseases in pigs during transition and fattening
• Establish an appropriate diagnostic methodology to identify the infectious process
• Develop treatment and prevention plans for infectious diseases of interest in swine in the productive phases of transition and fattening
• Analyze current legislation regulating surveillance and control of infectious diseases, especially officially declared diseases by the competent authority 
• Establish criteria to carry out bibliographic searches and analysis of the different diseases in transition and fattening 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
• Identify all clinical signs associated with pain in swine
• Establish an anesthetic and analgesic protocol in pigs according to the surgical intervention to be performed
• Establish the most appropriate surgical technique either based on the pathology or prophylactically based
• Establish the criteria for euthanasia in swine and select the most appropriate method in each case
• Perform anesthetic management of pigs as a model for animal experimentation

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Gestation and Maternity: Main Diseases

• 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 2. Transition and Fattening: Main Diseases

• Identify the main problems caused by infectious pathology during transition and fattening
• Define the economic and sanitary importance of infectious diseases in swine productivity during transition and fattening
• Delve deeper into the process and method of diagnosis used in the field for each disease
• Establish the basis for designing treatment plans for the main swine diseases transition and fattening 
• Develop control and prevention strategies for the main swine diseases during transition and fattening
• Analyze and resolve proposed clinical cases using different strategies
• Demonstrate the necessary agility to deal with infectious diseases in swine

Module 3. Reproductive Failure in Sows

• Define the types of repeat estrus
• Present prevention methods for "dirty" sow syndrome
• Examine the metritis, mastitis and agalactia syndrome involved in 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

Module 4. Anesthesia and Surgery

• Accurately recognize the signs of acute or chronic pain in swine
• Analyze preventive measures for caudophagia by farm type
• Adequately administer the analgesia required for pain management
• Determine an anesthetic and surgical approach to female and male pig castration
• Propose an anesthetic and surgical approach to perform a cesarean section
• Develop an anesthetic and surgical approach to resolve different types of hernias and situations of uterine or rectal prolapse
• Present the decision-making criteria regarding animal euthanasia and propose the most appropriate method on the farm
• Review physiological and anesthetic considerations in the case of experimental swine models

A pathway to achieving professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market"