First Nations Institute Australia (FNIA)
Animal Health & Welfare Short Course
This course teaches you the fundamentals of animal illnesses and disorders. Your perspective on what can go wrong with an animal will expand.
Animals can become injured or ill, but they are not humans. Their nutritional, and psychological needs are often different to ours. They suffer diseases; but often different diseases to what we suffer. There may be some similarities between human health and animal health; but there are also many significant differences. If you wish to care for animals appropriately and effectively, you must understand animal health and welfare in a different way to how you understand human health and welfare. This is not to say one is more or less important than another; but it is both a disservice to animals, and an ineffective way of caring for animals, if you don’t have an appropriate appreciation of differences between people and animals.
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
