Small Animal Medicine Certificate Programme
Completely Redesigned. Powered by Innovation.
Problem Oriented Medicine (POM)
Turns confusion into clarity, a real-life approach to thinking, diagnosing, and acting like an expert.
Personalised Expert Mentorship
One-on-one feedback from your mentor, continuous guidance from your coordinator, and a safe space to ask anything, anytime and anonymously.
Three Optional Hands-On Practical Modules
Put your learning into practice with sessions focused on POCUS, cytology, and clinical procedures (NG tube, E-tube, drainages and catheter placements).
Advanced AI Medical Simulator
Trains vet surgeons to master emotional, ethical, and clinical communication in realistic, high pressure scenarios with clients and colleagues.
12-month Training Programme
Reimagined to allow you to complete it in one year without compromising in quality and content.
An Intelligent, Living Atlas of Clinical Medicine
Short, interactive lessons you can reshuffle (by POM, system/organ, diagnostics and treatments), revisit, and adapt to your cases, anytime 24/7.
Advanced Learning Tools
Sharpen your clinical thinking with Error Management Training (EMT), Reverse Engineering of the Clinical Case (RECC), Visual Synthesis, and Active Checklists - all supported by immediate, expert feedback.
Active Learning Activities (ALAs)
Draw from the best in high-stakes professions. Risk management from NASA, decision-making under stress from air traffic control, and situational awareness from New York firefighters — all adapted to veterinary clinical practice.
Innovative Learning
Bring each lesson to life with engaging features like Tips & Mistakes, Top 5 - e.g. most common diseases or frequent clinical presentations, Human vs AI, and Consensus & Controversies and extended content for those ready to go beyond the boundaries of their knowledge.
Sharper clinical and diagnostic decision-making
Improved client communication and professional resilience
Greater career opportunities, recognition, and personal pride
Achieve the ISVPS General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert), a Postgraduate Certificate (PgC)* and approved for application to the RCVS Advanced Practitioner Status *Pending validation
Higher standards of care
More efficient case management
Greater client retention and satisfaction
A motivated team member committed to continuous improvement
Sharper clinical and diagnostic decision-making
Improved client communication and professional resilience
Greater career opportunities, recognition, and personal pride
Achieve the ISVPS General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert), a Postgraduate Certificate (PgC)* and approved for application to the RCVS Advanced Practitioner Status *Pending validation
Higher standards of care
More efficient case management
Greater client retention and satisfaction
A motivated team member committed to continuous improvement
Garrick Ponte
BVSc GPCert(SAM) MRCVS
Small Animal Medicine Delegate
The teaching at Improve is excellent and I have been able to take what I have learnt back to use in practice. It’s not just the lectures themselves but the practical work we did straight afterwards which drives home everything, which is why Improve’s modular programmes are so great. The difference it’s made in the practice has been huge, I’m more confident with clients and able to take on more complex cases.
Dr Magdalena Doherty
Small Animal Medicine Delegate
I felt that the modular training structure it offered would be a good fit with my workload and the content linked very well to my daily experience in practice. The mix of training methods was another attraction as it seemed to support all styles of learning.
Small Animal Medicine Delegate
Instead of having to book specific days off work to attend a class, I can work through the course content in bite-sized topics at my own pace ..... Having taken an online examination in a different subject, I can see how useful these tasks are in preparation for the final exam.
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Course Master:
Silvia Funes
DVM MS Dip ACVIM
Modules: 12 Clinical Theory Modules (+ 1 Bonus Module) + 3 Optional Practical Attendance Modules
CPD hours: 170 Plus Optional Practical Modules with 36 Hours
Course length: 12 Months
Prices start at: £8,400 + VAT
Entry requirements: Registered veterinary surgeons with a minimum of 1–2 years of postgraduate experience recommended
