Postgraduate Certificates

BSAVA offers a portfolio of structured academic qualifications to help you deepen your clinical knowledge and achieve career milestones. Our highly regarded Postgraduate Certificates provide a focused, modular learning pathway in key disciplines such as small animal medicine, surgery, and emergency and critical care, ophthalmology and diagnostic imaging. Developed and delivered by industry renowned speakers, our postgraduate certificates blend academic accuracy with practical relevance, ensuring students feel confident to apply learned skills in practice.

Why choose the BSAVA for your Postgraduate Certificate?

Designed by vets, for vets: powered by our members’ deep understanding of the challenges facing veterinary practices, our courses are built to meet the needs of veterinary professionals, particularly those in first opinion practice.

Become part of the BSAVA’s thriving community: you’ll join a supportive study community alongside your dedicated academic tutor, pastoral mentor, world-renowned specialist speakers, and a small cohort of peers all studying the same material at the same time. Plus you’ll join the wider BSAVA community, a world-renowned association established over 60 years ago.

Access to unparalleled learning resources: alongside our own online learning platform with notes, webinars, guided lessons and discussion forums developed by industry-leading experts, benefit from access to the RCVS Knowledge platform including their extensive library of full text electronic journals.

Deep, applied, flexible learning: Delve deeply into the in-practice application of your learning and adopt life-long practical skills over 3 years of study online and in-person, designed to fit around your responsibilities both in practice and at home. With the option to suspend your studies if you need to, you’ll have peace of mind if life takes an unexpected turn.

Become an RCVS Advanced Practitioner, with no additional exams: all our Postgraduate Certificates include a Professional Key Skills (PKS) course at no additional cost, meaning you can gain Advanced Practitioner status with RCVS immediately after graduating – with no additional exams.

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What Postgraduate Certificates are available?

For full information on how to enrol onto each certificate, please click the individual links below.

Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging

Elevate your career and become confident in diagnostic imaging with the small animal diagnostic imaging postgraduate certificate

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Small Animal Surgery

Master your surgical skills and excel in practice with the Small Animal Surgery postgraduate certificate

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Small Animal Medicine

Deepen your knowledge in small animal medicine and enhance patient care with the postgraduate certificate in small animal medicine

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Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

Master the art and science of handling emergencies with confidence and managing critically ill patients.

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Small Animal Ophthalmology

Advance your career and focus your expertise with our postgraduate certificate in Small Animal Ophthalmology.

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