Central Qualifications · RQF Level 7
CQ Level 7 Post Graduate Diploma in Veterinary Medicine - Farm
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits120
- Guided learning1,200 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Central Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Central Qualifications registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Accurate initial patient assessment and evaluationReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- EVALUATE APPROPRIATE METHODS OF ANIMAL HANDLING AND RESTRAINT
- CONSTRUCT AND PRIORITISE THE ORGANISATION OF AN ACCURATE AND RELEVANT PATIENT AND HUSBANDRY HISTORY
- PERFORM A COMPLETE CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT
- EVALUATE FINDINGS OF PATIENT CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNICATE IT TO OTHERS
Appropriate and safe implementation and interpretation of diagnostic imagingReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- DEMONSTRATE SAFE, DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE TO THE CLINICAL CASE WITH ACCURATE EVALUATION OF RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS
- DEMONSTRATE DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE TO THE CLINICAL CASE WITH ACCURATE EVALUATION OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY IMAGES
- DEMONSTRATE DIAGNOSTIC MONITORING OF INDIRECT BLOOD PRESSURE TECHNIQUES WITH ACCURATE EVALUATION
- DEMONSTRATE DIAGNOSTIC ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES WITH ACCURATE EVALUATION OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH
- DEMONSTRATE SAFE, DIAGNOSTIC ENDOSCOPY TECHNIQUES WITH ACCURATE EVALUATION
- DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF ADVANCED IMAGING MODA
Appropriate and safe implementation and interpretation of laboratory proceduresReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- SELECT APPROPRIATE SAMPLES IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE DIAGNOSTIC PLAN
- SAFELY AND HUMANELY OBTAIN APPROPRIATE DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY SAMPLES
- ACCURATELY PERFORM A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION
- DEMONSTRATE SAFE AND CORRECT HANDLING AND PREPARATION OF SAMPLES
- DEMONSTRATE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE USE OF LabourATORY EQUIPMENT
- ACCURATELY RECORD, COMMUNICATE AND EVALUATE RESULTS
Appropriate animal health prophylactic managementReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- ASSESS AND IMPLEMENT GOOD PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND WELFARE
- ASSESS AND IMPLEMENT PROPHYLACTIC PROGRAMMES
- ASSESS NUTRITIONAL STATUS, CONSTRUCTING AND IMPLEMENTING NUTRITIONAL ADVICE AS NECESSARY
- EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE TO ENSURE UNDERSTANDING OF ANIMAL WELFARE LEGISLATION AND PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PRACTISE
Appropriate assessment and safe implementation of veterinary anaesthesiaReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- COMPETENTLY PERFORM A PRE-ANAESTHETIC PATIENT ASSESSMENT
- EVALUATE PRE-ANAESTHETIC PATIENT ASSESSMENT RESULTS AND JUDGE ANAESTHETIC RISK AND SUBSEQUENTLY SELECT APPROPRIATE ANAESTHETIC PROTOCOL
- ACCURATELY CALCULATE AND SAFELY ADMINISTER PHARMACOLOGICAL AGENTS FOR ANAESTHETIC PREPARATION, INDUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
- EVALUATE PATIENTS TO ENSURE ACCURATE AND SAFE MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING OF ANAESTHESIA
- ACCURATELY INTERPRET SIGNS OF PAIN THROUGHOUT THE ANAESTHETIC PROCESS
- INTERPRET AND RESPOND TO COMPLICATIONS AND EMERGENCIES DURING THE ANAESTHETIC PROCESS
- PLAN AND IMPLEMENT CARDIO-
Appropriate assessment and safe performance of veterinary surgical proceduresReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- PLAN AND IMPLEMENT PATIENT AND EQUIPMENT PREPARATION FOR ASEPTIC SURGERY
- ACCURATELY EVALUATE THE NEED FOR AND INDEPENDENTLY PERFORM A RANGE OF PERI-OPERATIVE PROCEDURES
- ACCURATELY AND INDEPENDENTLY PERFORM A RANGE OF SURGICAL PROCEDURES
- ACCURATELY AND INDEPENDENTLY PREPARE, JUDGE AND PERFORM APPROPRIATE DENTAL CARE AND TREATMENT
- CONSTRUCT AND COMMUNICATE POST-SURGICAL MANAGEMENT PLANS
Construction and implementation of an appropriate therapeutic planReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE WITH CURRENT LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS AND LOCAL STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
- EVALUATE AND CONSTRUCT A THERAPEUTIC PLAN
- ACCURATELY AND SAFELY PREPARE THERAPEUTICS IN ALIGNMENT WITH A THERAPEUTIC PLAN
- ACCURATELY AND SAFELY ADMINISTER THERAPEUTICS IN ALIGNMENT WITH A THERAPEUTIC PLAN
- ACCURATELY AND SAFELY DISPOSE OF THERAPEUTICS AND EQUIPMENT
- EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION AND DISPOSAL OF THERAPEUTICS BY OTHERS
Formulate a clinical assessment, treatment and management planReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- FORMULATE A CLEAR AND LOGICAL THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO CLINICALLY ASSESS AND IDENTIFY THE POTENTIAL CAUSE OF A VARIETY OF CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS
- DEMONSTRATE THE FORMULATION AND APPLICATION OF A CLEAR, LOGICAL AND APPROPRIATE CLINICAL TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR A RANGE OF CLINICAL CASES
- EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE TREATMENT PLANS TO OTHERS
- ACCURATELY ASSESS WHEN EUTHANASIA OF THE PATIENT IS NECESSARY AND PERFORM IT USING A METHOD APPROPRIATE TO THE CASE
Professional relationships and effective communicationReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- PREPARE AND MAINTAIN CLEAR AND ACCURATE RECORDS
- COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY BY VERBAL MEANS, WITH OTHERS
- COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY BY WRITTEN MEANS WITH OTHERS
- EVALUATE APPROPRIATE METHODS AND PACE OF INFORMATION-SHARING WITH CLIENTS
- FACILITATE CLEAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEOPLE
Qualities of professionalism, reflective practice and lifelong learningReal unit · Central Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- STRUCTURE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND BEHAVIOUR TO ENSURE PROFESSIONALISM
- DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE WITH CURRENT LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS AND LOCAL STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
- DEMONSTRATE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLINICAL GOVERNANCE AND EVIDENCE BASED VETERINARY MEDICINE
- FACILITATE TEAM COLLabourATION
- IMPLEMENT MEASURES FOR ENSURING THAT PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IS MAINTAINED
- DEVISE AND COMMUNICATE ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES TO ENSURE THE MAINTENANCE OF WORKPLACE HYGIENE
- DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ECONOMIC ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE VETERINARY PRACTICE
- EVALUATE EMOTIONS OF SELF AND OTH
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- 09_Planning and Scheduling Resources for Toxicity Studies
- Acquire Magnetic Resonance images for diagnostic purposes
- Administer perioperative care to animals in a Home Office designated establishment
- Administer sedation and analgesia to individuals during endoscopic procedures
- Assess and plan the physical therapy of animals
- Assess suitability of acquired images for diagnostic purposes
- Assist in administering and maintaining anaesthetics or sedation to veterinary patients
- Assist the veterinary surgeon in preparing sedation and anaesthesia materials and equipment for veterinary procedures
Where this can lead
Senior Medical Imaging Engineer
We're not just offering a job; we're offering a career where you can genuinely make a difference. The path isn't always straight, and it certainly isn't easy, but the opportunity to shape the future of medical diagnostics and improve patient lives is incredibly rewarding. We're looking for someone ready to grow with us and tackle some of the most exciting challenges in healthcare.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CQ Level 7 Post Graduate Diploma in Veterinary Medicine - Farm
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Central Qualifications.
- Accurate initial patient assessment and evaluation
- Appropriate and safe implementation and interpretation of diagnostic imaging
- Appropriate and safe implementation and interpretation of laboratory procedures
- Appropriate animal health prophylactic management
- Appropriate assessment and safe implementation of veterinary anaesthesia
- Appropriate assessment and safe performance of veterinary surgical procedures
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.