Become one of the most demanded professionals today: Train in Nervous System, Cardiac, Genitourinary and Musculoskeletal Tumors in Small Animals with this complete online postgraduate diploma”

The age of patients in veterinary consultations is increasingly higher, resulting in more frequent cases of cancer patients.

This intensive program compiles the different oncologic diseases that small animals experience. It addresses the development of the different tumors that affect the canine and feline species, focusing on the diagnostic and therapeutic approach, and including the latest treatments.

Small Animal Oncology is an internal medicine subspecialty which has experienced great development in the last decades. The professors on this postgraduate diploma are at the forefront of the latest diagnostic techniques and treatments of oncologic diseases in small animals. Due to their specialized training, they have designed a useful, practical program adapted to the current situation, an increasingly demanding and specialized reality.

All the professors on the program are clinicians and/or university professors with experience in both undergraduate and postgraduate training. Professionally active, the professors are specialized in different areas involved in small animal oncology such as clinical oncologists, oncological surgeons, radiologists and anatomopathologists. The aim is to offer a postgraduate diploma that takes a multidisciplinary approach to oncology.

This program specializes general practitioners in veterinary oncology in an area that is increasingly in demand, partly due to its prevalence, and partly to the specialization this area requires and demands.

All the modules compiled include the author's experience, without forgetting scientific rigor and the most important evidence-based updates. It addresses the diseases and action protocols, and it consideres the integral approach to patients, including disease, patient and owner.

The program also includes a large amount of multimedia material: photos, videos, diagrams, and imaging techniques and surgery.

As it is an online Postgraduate Certificate course, students are not restricted by set timetables, nor do they need to physically move to another location. All of the content can be accessed at any time of the day, so you can balance your working or personal life with your academic life.

You will benefit from the experience of expert professionals who have contributed their expertise in the area to this program, making it a unique opportunity for professional growth”

This postgraduate diploma in Nervous System, Cardiac, Genitourinary and Musculoskeletal Tumors in Small Animals contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• 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

Get a complete and adequate qualification in Nervous System, Cardiac, Genitourinary and Musculoskeletal Tumors in Small Animals with this highly effective training program and pave new ways to your professional advancement”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. That way, TECH ensures to offer the updating objective it intends to provide. A multidisciplinary team of professionals trained and experienced in different environments, who will cover the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will bring the practical knowledge from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this course.

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate diploma in Nervous System, Cardiac, Genitourinary, Musculoskeletal and Genitourinary Tumors in Small Animals. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. That way, students will study with a range of easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the necessary skills needed during training

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that views learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, TECH will use telepractice: with the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, the student will be able to acquire the knowledge as if they were facing the scenario they 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.

Make the most of the opportunity and take the step to get up to date on the latest developments in Nervous System, Cardiac, Genitourinary and Musculoskeletal Tumors in Small Animals" 

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 specialize 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 a few months, can be achieved with a high intensity and precision program.

If your objective is to broaden your skills to include new paths of success and development, this is the course for you: a training that aspires to excellence"

General Objectives

• Develop diagnostic and therapeutic protocols for the main male and female genital tract tumors
• Generate diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms for the main urinary tumors in dogs and cats
• Evaluate the different diagnostic procedures and specify treatments for the main tumors affecting the nervous system in dogs and cats
• Examine the different techniques that exist for surgically treating patients with genitourinary and nervous system tumors
• Identify hematopoietic neoplasms and histiocytic diseases in cats and dogs
• Evaluate the different presentations of hematopoietic tumors, knowing their etiology, pathology, classification and staging
• Specify specific treatments for each type of hematopoietic tumor or histiocytic disease
• Establish knowledge of the prognosis of hematopoietic tumors and histiocytic diseases
• Develop a diagnostic and therapeutic protocol for the approach to hemagiosarcoma, with special emphasis on splenic hemangiosarcoma
• Establish guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of thymoma
• Examine the main cardiac tumors in small animals and evaluate the therapeutic alternative for them
• Generate diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms for the main musculoskeletal tumors in dogs and cats
• Describe the main techniques for the surgical approach to splenic hemangiosarcoma, cardiac tumors, thymoma and osteosarcoma

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Genitourinary Tumors. Nervous System Tumours

• Define the different tumors affecting the urogenital tract in dogs and cats
• Evaluate the classical and minimally invasive diagnostic techniques used in tumors affecting the urogenital tract in dogs and cats
• Establish the different medical and surgical treatments for genitourinary tumors
• Analyze the new minimally invasive therapeutic strategies and interventional radiology in tumors affecting the urogenital system in dogs and cats
• Establish the risk and prognostic factors in canine and feline urogenital tumors
• Define the different brain and spinal cord tumors affecting dogs and cats
• Generate algorithms for the diagnosis of nervous system tumors in dogs and cats based on clinical history, physical examination and imaging techniques
• Develop the different therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of nervous system tumors in dogs and cats

Module 2. Hematopoietic Tumors

• Define the appropriate diagnosis and clinical staging of canine and feline lymphoma
• Compile the different classifications of canine and feline lymphoma
• Establish the different treatments for induction, reinduction and rescue of canine and feline lymphoma
• Discuss new treatment strategies and future alternatives for canine lymphoma
• Examine the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to both canine and feline lymphocytic leukemia
• Implement the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to myeloproliferative diseases
• Demonstrate knowledge of the different aspects of tumor behavior in histiocytic diseases
• Substantiate the appropriate prognosis for each hematopoietic neoplasm and histiocytic disease according to its presentation and response to treatment

Module 3. Hemangiosarcoma. Thymoma. Cardiac Tumors. Musculoskeletal Tumors

• Establish the basis for the diagnosis of hemangiosarcoma in dogs and cats
• Develop the medical and surgical treatment of splenic hemangiosarcoma
• Identify the key aspects in the diagnosis of thymoma
• Define cardiac tumors affecting dogs and cats
• Evaluate techniques for treating complications secondary to cardiac tumors
• Define musculoskeletal tumors
• Establish management protocols for musculoskeletal tumors
• Develop conventional treatment and new strategies in the approach to canine osteosarcoma

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