The most complete, effective and specialized program in Swine Production and Clinical Practice on the online academic market”

The professional master’s degree in Swine Production and Clinical Practice analyzes the different Swine Production Models and their characteristics with a focus on Animal Production, Health and Welfare. It is necessary for veterinary professionals to become aware of the importance of correctly choosing future breeding females on the farm and become familiar with the new technologies and protocols used in artificial insemination for both nulliparous and multiparous sows.  

This program examines the tools required to optimize and improve management at three critical points in swine production: gestation, farrowing and lactation. Regarding piglets, farrowing and lactation will be the pillars of both their survival and their future health.  

The program will delve deeper into the most frequently observed diseases in the productive phases of gestation, maternity, transition and fattening, establishing the diagnostic methodology and the most appropriate treatment, management and prophylaxis plans for each case.  

The origin of Reproductive Pathology can be congenital, traumatic, endocrine, infectious or due to management failure. The most important thing, besides diagnosis and treatment, is to look for the causes of reproductive failure and correct them.  

An important objective of this program is to exhaustively review the most important points that will determine the boar's success. The operation at insemination centers will be studied, the technologies used to perform seminal contrast today and the new technologies that are expected to be implemented in the coming years will be analyzed.  

The biosafety conditions in swine breeding and production require that both anesthetic and surgical procedures be performed on the farm itself. Therefore, it is essential to adapt anesthetic and surgical techniques to field conditions, far from the sterility of an operating room and the safety provided by anesthetic monitoring.  

Swine Clinical Veterinarians must be prepared to face these situations by providing adequate anesthesia and analgesia for the correct performance of any surgical intervention.  

There are situations in which, given the impossibility of resolving animal pathology and avoiding suffering, professionals must resort to humane euthanasia.

The professional master’s degree in Swine Production and Clinical Practice contains the most complete and up-to-date online academic program on the market. The contents will be accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection, guaranteeing that students will be able to use their available time to achieve their objectives of improving their knowledge and skills in this field. Furthermore, the program's methodological design integrates the latest advances in educational technology, facilitating students' learning. 

Join the elite with this highly effective professional master’s degree, which will open new paths for your professional development”

The professional master’s degree in Swine Production and Clinical Practice contains the most complete and up-to-date academic program on the market. The most important features include: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly virtual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practicing 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

A comprehensive, specialized program that will allow you to acquire the most advanced knowledge in all specialized areas of veterinarian intervention”

Our teaching staff is made up of professionals in different fields related to this specialty. That way, TECH ensures to offer you the up-to-date knowledge it intends to. A multidisciplinary team of professionals specialized and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but above all, they will bring their practical knowledge from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this training.

The efficiency of the methodological design of this professional master’s degree, 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 easy-to-use and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the necessary skills you need for 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, TECH uses online 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 students to integrate and focus their learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

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

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

Our objective is to train highly qualified professionals for the work environment. 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 highly intensive and effective training. 

If your objective is to broaden your skill set to include new pathways of success and development, this is the course for you: training that aspires to excellence"

General Objectives

• Develop advanced expertise in the field of swine production
• Generate specialized knowledge to efficiently and effectively address real problems, models and solutions that exist in swine production
• Gain specialized, technical knowledge to add value to future farms who seek advice on matters of production, facilities, animal welfare, waste, etc.
• Examine the reproductive sow anatomy and physiology as a basis for the use of reproductive biotechnology on the farm
• Provide a rationale for proper sow reproductive management guidelines
• Analyze appropriate methods of hormonal reproductive control for sows
• Evaluate the characteristics of replacement sows in breeding
• Identify the best timing for first insemination
• Propose productive farm parameters
• Define the concept of hyperprolific sows
• Establish the guidelines to correctly detect estrus in sows
• Develop a general and specific vision of artificial insemination in sows
• Implement the design of new technologies for heat detection and artificial insemination
• Analyze the principles and characteristics of other reproductive technology components that could be incorporated into future farms
• Establish an appropriate methodology to manage sows during gestation, farrowing and lactation
• Identify and analyze the critical points in sow gestation, farrowing and lactation phases
• Gain specialized knowledge of sow diets throughout the productive cycle and incorporate the requirements of the new hyperprolific genetic lines
• Specify the work on a pig farm from insemination to the end of lactation, and manage resources, analysis and methods to achieve objectives
• Identify all the critical points of piglet environmental needs from birth
• Establish the foundations to correctly manage newborns in nursery
• Establish proper piglet placement and adoption process protocols
• Develop the keys to properly manage weaning and the subsequent phases
• Maximize animal welfare in all its phases based on fundamental key points
• Deepen knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of the most frequent infectious diseases in pigs during gestation and maternity phases
• Establish an appropriate methodology to identify the infectious processes
• Develop plans for resolution, control and clinical treatment of infectious diseases of interest in swine in the productive phases of gestation and maternity
• Analyze the legal measures established for the surveillance and control of infectious diseases in swine in gestation and maternity
• Establish criteria to carry out bibliographic searches and analysis of the different diseases in the gestation and maternity phase
• Deepen knowledge of the etiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of the most common infectious diseases in pigs during transition and fattening
• Establish an appropriate diagnostic methodology to identify the infectious process
• Develop treatment and prevention plans for infectious diseases of interest in swine in the productive phases of transition and fattening
• Analyze current legislation regulating surveillance and control of infectious diseases, especially officially declared diseases by the competent authority
• Establish criteria to carry out bibliographic searches and analysis of the different diseases in transition and fattening phase
• Identify the different types of reproductive failure on farms
• Establish the causes of embryonic and fetal mortality during gestation
• Evaluate the incidence of reproductive infections both after insemination and after parturition
• Demonstrate that management failures are the origin of many reproductive pathologies
• Substantiate reproductive seasonality in sows
• Present boar anatomical and physiological information
• Substantiate the needs and requirements of a boar to be used for breeding
• Generate specialized knowledge of the current operation at swine insemination centers
• Identify all clinical signs associated with pain in swine
• Establish an anesthetic and analgesic protocol in pigs according to the surgical intervention to be performed
• Establish the most appropriate surgical technique either based on the pathology or prophylactically-based
• Establish the criteria for euthanasia in swine and select the most appropriate method in each case
• Perform anesthetic management of pigs as a model for animal experimentation

Specific Objectives

Module 1. The Swine Sector

• Develop a specialized vision of the Swine Sector  
• Know the morphological and physiological characteristics of pigs 
• Autonomously analyze and apply concepts, tools and management related to current production, health, animal welfare and environment regulations for swine   
• Confidently diagnose and define the elaboration processes for farm reports, certifications and audits
• Propose methods of control, treatment and prevention of occupational hazards in the swine industry   
• Improve facilities to obtain the maximum productive performance  
• Demonstrate that animal welfare conditions allow for higher production yields  
• Plan projects to reduce farms' negative impact on the environment  
• Identify opportunities for farm improvement and transmit knowledge to personnel working in the swine industry 

Module 2. Breeding Females

• Evaluate appropriate guidelines to select future breeding females 
• Present the sexual cycle of sows as a basis for reproductive hormonal management and control
• Define puberty and its management 
• Propose different hormonal control protocols in breeding sows 
• Identify at what reproductive moment the use of each type of hormone is required 
• Establish nulliparous sow diets 
• Specify the most important reproductive indexes in swine production 
• Analyze the reproductive features hyperprolific sows should present

Module 3. Estrus Detection and Artificial Insemination

• Examine the main protocols for heat detection 
• Apply current artificial insemination techniques 
• Diagnose the factors that can affect estrus detection and artificial insemination  
• Specify the most appropriate tools to implement good practices in artificial insemination 
• Present the principles and component features of other reproductive technologies associated with artificial insemination  
• Propose application methods for these protocols in swine farms with excellent results 
• Analyze the reproductive results of the different reproductive biotechnologies in swine farms 
• Develop effective solutions for potential incidences in artificial insemination  

Module 4. Sows: Gestation, Farrowing and Lactation

• Manage facilities during gestation, farrowing and lactation
• Present sow gestation, farrowing and lactation physiology 
• Diagnose the most frequent physiological problems in gestation and how to deal with them 
• Learn the fundamentals of gestation diagnosis in sows 
• Identify the problems in gestation and differentiate the management guidelines to be taken in each situation 
• Define the fundamentals of sow nutrition and requirements during gestation, farrowing and lactation 
• Establish the key points associated with hyperprolific lines and study how to address them 
• Analyze the organization and management of the sow cycle and the available resources

Module 5. Piglets

• Examine the different types of facilities and environmental needs in the different phases after piglet birth 
• Recognize the critical points of neonatal management to reduce mortality and pathologies  
• Determine the physiological and ethological needs of piglets and mothers to guarantee welfare 
• Analyze the appropriate methodology to minimize the negative effects of weaning  
• Propose new alternative protocols to surgical castration: lymphocastration 

Module 6. Gestation and Maternity: Main Diseases

• Identify the main problems caused by infectious pathology during gestation and maternity 
• Define the economic and sanitary importance of infectious diseases in swine during gestation and maternity  
• Delve deeper into the process and method of diagnosis used in the field for each disease 
• Establish treatment plans for the main swine diseases during gestation and maternity  
• Propose and develop control and prevention plans for the main swine diseases during gestation and maternity
• Analyze and solve proposed clinical cases 
• Demonstrate the necessary agility to deal with infectious diseases in swine

Module 7. Transition and Fattening: Main Diseases

• Identify the main problems caused by infectious pathology during transition and fattening
• Define the economic and sanitary importance of infectious diseases in swine productive during transition and fattening  
• Delve deeper into the process and method of diagnosis used in the field for each disease
• Establish the basis for designing treatment plans for the main swine diseases transition and fattening  
• Develop control and prevention strategies for the main swine diseases during transition and fattening 
• Analyze and resolve proposed clinical cases using different strategies 
• Demonstrate the necessary agility to deal with infectious diseases in swine

Module 8. Reproductive Failure in Sows

• Define the types of repeat estrus 
• Present prevention methods for "dirty" sow syndrome
• Examine the metritis, mastitis and agalactia syndrome involved in postpartum dysgalactia syndrome
• Discuss the different symptoms that can occur in sows with ovarian cysts 
• Demonstrate the influence of mycotoxins on reproduction 
• Differentiate anestrus from pseudo-anestrus 
• Evaluate the role of water in preventing certain urinary and reproductive pathologies

Module 9. Boars

• Examine porcine sperm cells to understand what may affect development and maturation
• Analyze the type of diet is necessary for a breeding boar's needs 
• Evaluate the different semen analysis methodologies
• Identify the techniques that can help identify subfertile boars 
• Analyze the most commonly found reproductive pathologies  
• Compile the most common semen-transmissible diseases
• Identify the critical points at insemination centers

Module 10. Anesthesia and Surgery

• Accurately recognize the signs of acute or chronic pain in swine
• Analyze preventive measures for caudophagia by farm type 
• Adequately administer the analgesia required for pain management 
• Determine an anesthetic and surgical approach to female and male pig castration 
• Propose an anesthetic and surgical approach to perform a cesarean section 
• Develop an anesthetic and surgical approach to resolve different types of hernias and situations of uterine or rectal prolapse 
• Present the decision-making criteria regarding animal euthanasia and propose the most appropriate method on the farm
• Review physiological and anesthetic considerations in the case of experimental swine models

A pathway to achieving specialization and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market"