Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice (CertAVP)

This flexible postgraduate veterinary qualification is designed so that you can choose the areas of study that are of most interest or relevance to you. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) have accredited the University of Liverpool to provide and assess a range of modules, which can be accumulated towards the RCVS CertAVP. All modules are also approved by the University, and can be put towards a postgraduate award in Veterinary Professional Studies

You may begin your CertAVP with one year’s experience as a practising vet but to complete your certificate you must have been practising for at least three years.

For completion of many of the modules you will be expected to submit case reports or case portfolios to demonstrate your clinical experience. In some instances (i.e. for some Equine modules) your case portfolio may require you to have performed certain procedures or techniques under the supervision of a veterinary surgeon with a suitable postgraduate qualification.

Case reports should refer to cases for which you were the primary clinician, therefore cases seen when you were an undergraduate student or some internships where the clinical decision making was not your own are not suitable for selection. It is important that you are aware of the requirements of each module before enrolment to ensure that you have sufficient clinical experience to complete these assessments.

The 16 week, 100 hour eLearning modules are currently £770 each.