This specialization offers the bases and tools for you to become an expert in veterinary ultrasound taught by recognized professionals with extensive experience in the field”

Ultrasound in Feline Patients and Exotic Animals has become a basic diagnostic imaging procedure nowadays and is increasingly performed and required in daily clinical practice. It provides us with very relevant and sometimes conclusive information to reach a diagnosis in our patients.  

This training will deepen your knowledge not only in the technical differences and how to apply them to obtain an excellent examination, but will also address the main pathologies that we can diagnose with the use of ultrasound in the chest, abdomen and cervical region. It will also cover the ultrasound and differential signs of these pathologies and other techniques that can be used to reach the definitive diagnosis. 

However, ultrasound is not a commonly-used diagnostic tool in exotic animal clinics. The large number of species included in this field, the anatomical differences and the different methods of restraint mean that the clinician is not confident in the use of this imaging technique.  

Technological advances and the development of new equipment with higher resolution have allowed the progression of ultrasound in these varied species, making it an essential diagnostic test. 

Given the online format of this program, you will develop confidence, assurance and greater knowledge of pathologies and differential diagnoses when it comes to providing relevant and necessary information in daily ultrasound practice. 

As it is an online program, the student is not conditioned by fixed schedules, nor do they need to move 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.

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

This postgraduate diploma in Ultrasound in Feline Patients and Exotic Animals offers you the advantages of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological course. These are some of its most notable features: 

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• 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
• Self-regulating 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

Achieve comprehensive and relevant training in Ultrasound in Feline Patients and Exotic Animals with this highly effective postgraduate diploma and open new pathways for 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 training update we are aiming for. 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 put the practical knowledge derived from their own experience at the service of 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 Ultrasound in Feline Patients and Exotic Animals . Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In 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 specialization.  

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 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.

Learn from real cases with this highly effective educational postgraduate diploma and open up new paths to your professional progress"

Immerse yourself in this training of the highest educational quality, which will allow you to face future challenges that may arise during daily practice in Ultrasound in Feline Patients and Exotic Animals "

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

General Objectives

• 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
• Improve reporting writing capabilities
• Increase your knowledge of the jargon used in ultrasonography
• Record and save studies and images in the most appropriate manner
• Improve skills for describing organs and lesions using technical terms

Specific Objectives

Module 1. 

• 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
• Using ultrasonography, 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

Module 2.

• 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)

Module 3.

• 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
• Know how to advise a clinician based on study results

A unique specialization that stands out thanks to the quality of its contents and its excellent teaching staff”