Veterinary medicines certificate for vets: instructions

 
 

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The Veterinary Medicines certificate is suitable for any veterinary surgeon, whether you are a new graduate entering clinical practice, or practising in the UK for the first time, or you just want to brush up on your knowledge of medicines regulations, parasiticides and critical appraisal of new medicines, or reflect on your own prescribing practices.

The certificate is made up of five units, each broken down into separate modules. There is a link to each group of modules in the unit headings below. You can also search for the group on the modules home page by inserting VC1 in the search box (VC1 is for VeterinaryCertificate Unit 1), or VC2 etc.

Unit 1 Veterinary medicines regulations

  • Everything you needed to know about veterinary medicines.…Part 1: Making sense of medicines

  • Everything you needed to know...: Part 2: Roles and responsibilities

  • Everything you needed to know...: Part 3: Where to find the medicines information you need

  • Adverse effects of medicines - what to report and why

  • Veterinary special formulations

  • Importing medicines in veterinary practice

    Time to complete: around 3 hours

Unit 2 Medicines supply

  • Good veterinary dispensing practice

  • Are you looking after your medicines properly?

  • Medicines mix ups

  • What to pet owners need to know about medicines?

  • Can it be given with food?

  • Handling medicines and pregnancy

    Time to complete: around 2 hours

Unit 3: Companion animal parasiticides

Note, the items below that are hyperlinked are separate items that are not in the CPD module library. Accces them by clicking on the link.

Unit 4 New Medicines

  • How to keep up to date on medicines

  • What is good quality information on medicines?

  • Galliprant (grapiprant)

  • Librela (bedinvetmab)

  • Stelfonta (tigilanol tiglinate)

  • Daxacox (enflicoxib)

    Time to complete: around 2 hours 30

Unit 5 Choosing between medicines

  • Deciding which medicines to stock

  • Don’t waste money on medicines

  • All-in-one parasiticides for cats

  • Leptospira vaccines

  • Antimicrobial ear products for dogs

  • Oral antihistamines for dogs

    Time to complete: around 2 hours 30

The estimated total time to complete the modules is around 14 hours, 30 minutes. This is based on the duration of the podcasts with time added to complete the MCQs, The modules might take you more or less time.

Add your own notes and reflections

At the bottom of each module, there is an area for recording reflective notes. Some of the modules include suggested reflective exercises. Any notes you make will be recorded in the ‘My Account’ area, visible only to you. There is a quiz at the end of each module (apart from module 6 of rational use of parasiticides). A certificate is awarded for each module when the MCQs are answered correctly..