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Become one of the most demanded professionals of the moment with this complete postgraduate certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise”

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The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The current social need for professionals specialized in the expertise in legal proceedings requires specific training from an eminently practical perspective, and veterinary medicine is no exception. The more scientific support a legal decision has, the more justice it will impart. 

This is precisely the reason for the creation of this Postgraduate Certificate on Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise, in which we count on the collaboration of authors directly related to Judicial Expertise with more than enough professional and teaching experience. Experts from Schools of Legal Practice, Masters of Access to the Legal Profession, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who have previously taught Judicial Expert Training Courses in the Veterinary field. 

The postgraduate certificate will analyze in detail all the questions that may arise for a Veterinary Graduate who intends to enter the world of expertise in Courts. The objective of this training is to take the veterinary professionals through a complete development, enabling them through a solid training to be able to intervene with judgment and responsibility in any legal proceeding to which they may be called. 

Get a complete and adequate qualification in judicial veterinary expertise and open new paths to your professional progress"

This postgraduate certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise offers you the characteristics of a course of high scientific, teaching and technological level. These are some of its most notable features: 

  • The latest technology in online teaching software
  • Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents, 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
  • Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with internet connection
  • Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

With a methodological design that relies on teaching techniques proven for their effectiveness, this postgraduate certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. In this way, TECH ensure that we provide you with the up-to-date training 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 training. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this postgraduate certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-Learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, the students will be able to study with a set of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give them the operability they need in their 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, 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 facing the scenario you 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.

With the experience of professionals from the judiciary, prosecution, law, veterinary and university fields"

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A postgraduate certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise that will allow you to acquire all the necessary knowledge in this area"

Objectives

The objective 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 focused on helping medical professionals reach a much higher level of expertise and control. A goal that, in just six months, you will be able to achieve with a highly intensive and precise postgraduate certificate.

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

General Objectives

  • Become aware of being in possession of the necessary knowledge as a veterinary professional to be able to issue an expert report 
  • Know how to project the technical knowledge in the corresponding written report with the necessary wording and clarity so that it can be understood by all parties 
  • Acquire the necessary knowledge of the legislation on the functions of veterinary experts 
  • Examine and analyze specific cases that have been the subject of veterinary expert reports in court and the importance of these reports in resolving the specific case 
  • Know the general principles of veterinary law and the different veterinary activities in which they are applied
  • Acquire the necessary knowledge of what an expert opinion is
  • Acquire the necessary skills and abilities to know how the veterinary expert should give an opinion
  • Become aware, in general, of the trial or hearing as one of the moments, probably the supreme one, of the judicial processes 
  • Become aware of the possibility of incurring liability as a consequence of the practice of the veterinary profession and of the judicial expertise 
  • Know the ethics, dignity and professional discipline of the veterinary expert
  • Provide the professional with full knowledge of the operation of the livestock farm and the food industry, from the birth of the animal to its commercialization
  • Know the common general principles that all criminal proceedings require in order to lay the foundations that will later guarantee the correct performance of the veterinary testimony or expertise

Specific Objectives

  • Understand the meaning of Veterinary Law and know how to apply it in the resolution of problems of a legal nature that arise in the veterinary activity related to the expert activity 
  • Know the importance, significance and legal consequences of euthanasia in animals, both in clinical and forensic aspects and in animal experimentation 
  • Knowing the different contents of the veterinary forensic activity, as an activity of assistance in the judicial resolution of cases in which the animal, corpse or not, is an expert element. This includes acquiring the ability to follow a protocol for action at the scene, knowing how to properly identify an animal species (observational and molecular methods), knowing the correct way to take biological samples for forensic studies and the importance of a correct planning of the anatomopathological examination to differentiate the different possible pathologies 
  • Know how to differentiate between the different types of death, identifying the evidence prior to death, as well as the different biotic and abiotic phenomena that occur in a corpse.
  • Know how to establish the date of death, applying different chemical-physical-biological parameters, being important the knowledge of the insects that act on the corpse (cadaveric entomofauna)
  • Know how to distinguish between the different injuries that appear in an animal related to forensic traumatology produced by contusions, weapons, drowning, electricity, lightning, etc. 
  • Know the different intoxications that an animal can suffer through the clinical and lesional aspects, as well as the analytical aspects provided by chemistry. Know the different possibilities of chemical-toxicological analysis and the interpretation of the results obtained
  • Know the necessary material to perform a necropsy and the correct, protocolized performance of the same, being able to apply this protocol in the different animal species that can be subject to it
  • Understand the principles that form the basis of the criminal process and crime in order to carry out the expertise in the most appropriate way possible
  • Know the process, the participants, the implications and value of the expertise in order to be able to handle with solvency the veterinary opinion and submit it to the judicial assessment with solvency
  • Know in a concrete way the relevant aspects of the expertise in the criminal process 
  • Know the positions of the parties, their claims and situation and know how to defend the expertise will be one of the main objectives of this module
  • Know the correct approach to the presentation of the expert's report and the data that are relevant in criminal proceedings for animal abuse as a strong point in this module, as it will help veterinarians to handle this type of procedural situations outside their science, but necessary to transfer their knowledge to the prosecution of mistreatment behaviors
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An opportunity for training and professional growth that will propel you towards greater competitiveness in the labor market"

Postgraduate Certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise

Forensic expertise and animal abuse are two interrelated fields that play a crucial role in the fight against cruelty to animals and the protection of their welfare. In the context of animal abuse, forensic expertise plays a fundamental role in the identification and prosecution of those responsible for acts of violence and abuse towards animals. In order to broaden the knowledge of professionals interested in working in this field, TECH Global University has developed the most complete and updated Postgraduate Certificate in Forensic and Animal Abuse Expertise in the educational panorama. The program has a 100% online mode of study and is composed of innovative didactic resources that will give a plus to your educational experience. The syllabus will allow you to explore aspects such as legislation or protocols related to animal abuse and the most advanced forensic techniques, from the collection of biological samples to the analysis of injury patterns.

Be an expert in animal abuse forensic expertise

Here at TECH you will find the most updated and complete curriculum in the market, its content and methodology were designed by professionals belonging to the sector, who will provide you with a progressive and efficient experience. In the lessons of the syllabus, you will acquire the necessary knowledge to investigate, collect evidence and analyze the evidence to clarify these crimes against living beings. In addition, our program includes an interdisciplinary approach that will allow you to understand the ethical, legal and psychological ramifications of animal abuse. As a result, you will be prepared to face challenging forensic investigations related to animal abuse. You will be adept at examining crime scenes, identifying signs of animal abuse and using specialized tools to document and preserve evidence.