A complete and total update in Equine Medicine and Surgery with the most complete and effective educational program in the online educational market"

Digestive pathologies are the main cause of death in domestic horses. Therefore, they constitute an area of equine medicine and surgery in constant progress and research and for which the clinician practicing ambulatory veterinary medicine must be equipped with a high level of specialization, to ensure the best results for their patients, ensuring at all times the knowledge of diagnostic tools and innovative and quality treatments. 

Most digestive pathologies present with symptoms characteristic of what we call acute abdominal syndrome (AAS), or in other words, colicky pain. Addressing these problems is therefore always a challenge for the equine veterinarian. Some of them are mild, almost asymptomatic, but if not detected in time they can lead to loss of sporting performance, animal welfare disorders or serious systemic involvement. Others are conditions of extreme urgency, posing a real danger and even endangering the life of the animals. 

They all encompass issues that require an advanced level of knowledge to be able to deal with situations that the specialist-qualified ambulatory clinician will have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. 

These topics will deal with the in-depth study of the alterations related to the hematopoietic and immune system, identifiable through the laboratorial study of blood components and detectable through a hemogram and serum biochemistry. 

An advanced analysis of the pathophysiological mechanism of allergies, as well as the latest trends in their diagnosis and treatment will be carried out. 

Endotoxic shock, a serious complication secondary to certain pathologies of high incidence in equines and in which, without a clear and updated vision to stabilize the patient quickly and effectively, the animal's life can be compromised, will be addressed. 

Join the elite, with this highly effective training and open new paths to your professional progress"

This postgraduate diploma in Digestive and Blood Disorders in Horses. Nutrition and Extended Therapeutic Protocols in Ambulatory Practice offers you the characteristics of a course of high scientific, teaching and technological level. 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
• Banks of complementary documentation permanently available, even after the end of the training

A complete training program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all the areas of intervention of the equine veterinarian"

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 develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will put at your service the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this training. 

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. 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. 

You will learn to develop and advance in depth in the diseases that affect the digestive tract from the stomach to the rectum, assessing the stage of the pathologies that appear" 

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

Our goal 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 materialized in helping professionals to reach a much higher level of competence and control. A goal that, in just a few months you will be able to achieve, with a high intensity and effective training.

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

General Objectives

• Identify the different anatomical structures and pathologies of the digestive tract of the horse
• Develop and advance in the most frequent procedures to solve oral cavity pathologies
• Recognize the symptoms of digestive disorders
• Enable the clinician to correctly assess the systemic state of the animal and the consequent severity of the pathology
• Establish diagnostic protocols and generate optimized treatments and prognoses
• Establish optimal preventive medicine criteria and good management guidelines
• Train the clinician in the approach to the patient with advanced alterations in the hemogram, biochemistry or hematopoiesis disorders
• Develop an innovative and up-to-date methodology for patients with immune-mediated disorders
• Develop and expand knowledge of endotoxic shock in order to provide the patient with the latest treatments
• Examine the physiology of food consumption and the physical distribution and transport of the food bolus through the small and large intestine, as well as the processes of nutrient absorption in the different digestive compartments
• Determine the conversion of nutrients into energy available for the different organic functions of the horse
• Establish the different nutritional needs in the horse's diet, as well as its energy requirements according to sporting discipline, productive objective or maintenance as a domestic animal
• Assessment of the cachectic horse: history and nutritional status, possible differentials, knowledge of metabolic consequences and requirements for subsequent dietary adjustment
• Generate specialized knowledge on new developments in antibiotic therapy and antibiotic resistance
• Examine prebiotics, probiotics as well as the use of medicinal plants in accordance with the high market demand that exists today in this area of medicine
• Develop sedation and ambulatory anesthesia procedures
• Determine the necessary tools for the assessment of the critically ill patient, providing the knowledge that enables the student to perform hospital treatments, such as advanced pain management, correction of hydro-electrolyte balance and acid-base balance intensive care in the neonate and intensive care in the adult
• Deepen in the fundamental medicinal and pharmacological considerations for high level sport horses
• Delve into equine toxicology
• Develop the application of humane euthanasia protocols

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Digestive system 

• Define correct methods of anamnesis, evaluation and assessment of the patient with digestive pathology
• Develop and advance in the most frequent procedures to solve oral cavity pathologies
• Establish anesthetic blocking protocols for oral surgery and dental extractions
• Recognize and resolve mandibular and maxillary pathologies
• Properly develop general examination procedures such as rectal palpation, nasogastric probing, abdominocentesis, interpretation of analytical tests and diagnostic imaging in field conditions, and establish the appropriate treatments and issue the correct prognosis in the horse with abdominal pain
• Develop and advance in depth in the diseases affecting the digestive tract from the stomach to the rectum, assessing the stage of the pathologies that appear 
• Develop and advance in depth on liver and biliary tract diseases in the horse and their possible treatments
• Develop and advance in depth in infectious and parasitic diseases of the digestive tract, as well as their various treatments
• Expand knowledge, establish and develop the correct decision criteria to treat abdominal syndrome in the horse in the field, or in case of requiring surgical treatment, to be able to correctly inform the owner and advise the referral of cases to the hospital in case they need surgery

Module 2. Hematopoiesis, Immune system and Nutrition 

• Delve into the study of blood components, as well as to attend in detail to the serological biochemical markers, all of them analytical parameters that the clinical specialist must know in depth, in order to be able to relate possible alterations in this sense to pathological situations of any kind
• Develop advanced knowledge on possible alterations related to hematopoiesis, as well as alternatives in terms of leading-edge treatments
• Achieve a high degree of knowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms of immune-mediated disorders in order to select the latest diagnostic tests and appropriate treatment
• Deepen in the pathophysiological mechanisms of endotoxemia and the development of endotoxic shock, in order to prevent secondary complications associated with this process and to apply the most up-to-date treatments
• Understand the processes of digestion and absorption of nutrients in the different anatomical compartments of the horse's digestive tract
• Provide the basic knowledge on nutrients necessary for the development of feeding programs
• Estimate a horse's weight and determine its body condition
• Easy calculation of daily fodder and grain or compound feed requirements
• Differentiate and know how to apply the terms gross, digestible and net energy
• Delve deeper into the knowledge of antibiotic treatment alternatives, as well as the development of antibiotic resistance, in order to train the clinician in decision making in situations where there is an important restriction of antibiotic use, either by the patient's category or by the appearance of bacterial resistance
• Update on prebiotics, probiotics as well as the use of medicinal plants and their relevance as important tools in preventive medicine as well as in the treatment of specific pathologies

Module 3. Advanced Therapeutic Protocol and Toxicology  

• Analyze the new alternatives in terms of drugs used in sedation and anesthesia for outpatient use, as well as to deepen in the most established protocols in order to optimize this type of procedures
• Train the clinician in effective and dynamic decision making when dealing with a patient with a serious systemic condition, in order to ensure diagnoses and treatments that ensure patient stabilization despite non-hospital conditions
• Train the clinician in the correction of hydro-electrolyte and acid-base imbalances to ensure the reversal of hemodynamic alterations
• Ensure advanced knowledge of equine pain management with the latest medications
• Examine the characteristics and special considerations to be taken into account when applying pharmacological treatments in the sport horse, with special emphasis on avoiding problems in case of possible positive results in control tests for biological substances in competitions
• Generate advanced knowledge on equine toxicology, ensuring training for the recognition of toxic symptoms as well as the identification of plants and agents harmful to equines
• Analyze euthanasia procedures in depth. The clinician must be able to act correctly with patients in these last moments of their life trajectory, applying euthanasia in the most humane way possible in case of last necessity

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