A complete and total update on animal welfare with the most complete and effective online training program on the market”

The postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare during Slaughter is a new and up-to-date program that arises from the growing demand among veterinary professionals for specialized training in animal welfare to minimize animal suffering, since, nowadays, consumers demand not only healthier and safer food, but also food obtained through practices that ensure animal protection and welfare.  

This intensive program delves into the major commercial species in production animals: cattle, sheep, horses, swine, chickens, turkeys and fish. Although transport to slaughter, lairage conditions, pre-slaughter handling and restraint prior to stunning are known to be potential causes of welfare problems, this program focuses on the moment stunning and slaughter techniques are applied.

It examines the basis of unconsciousness and insensibility, and measures to assess them, as they are vital to evaluate the effectiveness of the different methods used.

It addresses the concept of Animal Welfare, its evolution and applied ethology, one of the main welfare problems in all animal facilities.

It also covers animal ethics or bioethics as a differentiating element with respect to other similar training courses. Since this topic is usually included in philosophy programs, it is usually addressed very superficially in health sciences. This highly relevant ethical aspect today will be extensively discussed in depth throughout this postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare during Slaughter .

The program will help veterinary professionals acquire specialized and updated training in the field of animal welfare, which is increasingly demanded by society, as conflicts between animal advocates and those in food production are the order of the day. 

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

This postgraduate diploma in Animal Welfare during Slaughter contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A 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
• 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
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after finishing the course 

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals from different fields related to this specialty. That way we are sure to offer the update we intend to provide. 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 postgraduate diploma, 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. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training.

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 learning: 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. 

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this innovative program will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

With the experience of working professionals and the analysis of real success stories, in a high-impact training approach”

Our 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 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 program. 

If your goal is to broaden your skill set to include new paths of success and development, this is your Professional Master's Degree: A program that aspires to excellence”

General Objectives

• Analyze the concept of animal welfare
• Examine human involvement in animal welfare
• Establish animal welfare assessment systems
• Analyze the ethical implications of the treatment of animals in society
• Substantiate the different ethical theories concerning animals
• Generate critical awareness of human responsibility toward animals
• Examine our role in animal welfare
• Compile all the information on implementing animal welfare regulations
• Define all the links involved in animal protection regulations
• Analyze the information on animal protection at the international level
• Discuss proper handling guidelines for effective livestock transport
• Examine the factors involved in livestock transportation
• Relate transport to health and productivity

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Animal Welfare. Concepts and Evolution

• Examine the concept of animal welfare in all its implications
• Analyze the physiological stress response in animals and its quantification
• Develop the concepts of stress and acute and chronic stress responses
• Fundamentalize the concepts of "eustress" and "distress"
• Determine the animal welfare implications in this stress response
• Develop the concept of freedoms and needs to understand animal welfare
• Examine the concept of animal welfare assessment
• Specify current animal welfare assessment systems

Module 2. Animal Ethics

• Analyze the concept of animal ethics and bioethics in all its branches
• Provide a foundation for social, personal and professional ethics towards animals
• Examine the different ethical theories
• Develop the concept of animal status
• Identify the moral status that can be given to animals
• Substantiate animal integrity and hence animal abuse
• Introduce animal law and the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights
• Assess the role of human-animal relationships in welfare

Module 3. National and International Animal Protection Legislation

• Analyze the development of animal protection regulations in the European Union
• Develop animal protection regulations in livestock farms
• Detail animal protection regulations in transport and slaughtering
• Examine animal protection regulations for teaching and research purposes
• Identify international actors in the development of animal protection legislation
• Present animal welfare regulations in countries outside the European Union

Module 4. Animal Welfare during Slaughter

• Analyze the principles of consciousness and insensibility in animals
• Define the potential causes of pain during animal slaughter
• Specify the most effective stunning systems for each animal species
• Examine the indicators for correct stunning
• Identify the main factors that can lead to inadequate stunning
• Assess the repercussions of stunning systems on carcass and meat quality
• Provide a foundation for animal euthanasia principles

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