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Advanced Diagnostic Clinical Neurology
Module 6 - Expand diagnostic skills in advanced clinical neurology through applied methodologies, neuroimaging mastery, and systematic patient management.
This course is a part of
Companion Animal NEUROLOGY - Advanced course - Module 6
The purpose of this course is to further develop the participant’s diagnostic platform within clinical neurology to include the more sophisticated diagnostic thinking, competences and skills required to successfully approach the complex neurological patient.
The participant should be able to combine knowledge collected from basic and advanced para-clinical tests with clinical patient data at an advanced level. The course will provide knowledge on neuroimaging including conventional diagnostic imaging as well as the digital image modalities, computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and their indication, interpretation and therapeutic consequences in the discipline of clinical neurology. Furthermore, both theoretical lectures and a wet-lab practice addressing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection and interpretation is an integrated part of the course.
Neurological patient cases and results of clinical workup is used in an interactive dialogue with the participants in order to expand their competences in a problem-based patient approach.
For more details about the course, please refer to the course curriculum.
Read more about the specialisation tracks and the Master's programme on the main page:
Course Directors on Advanced Diagnostic Clinical Neurology
Mette BerendtProfessor |
Hanne B. GredalAssociate Professor |
Course details on Advanced Diagnostic Clinical Neurology
Dates and examination
Course dates
13-17 April 2026
Course dates 2028
18-22 April 2028*
*Tuesday-Saturday due to national holiday
The course is available every second year.
Examination
Please find dates and details about the exam in the exam schedule.
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, the student must be able to:
Knowledge
- Define, identify and discuss veterinary methodology and para-clinical tools in systematised reflective clinical decision making in the companion animal clinical practice area of clinical neurology.
- Explain, reflect about and demonstrate overview of complex clinical decision making, patient therapy and management at an advanced level.
- Explain, reflect about and demonstrate overview of systematic clinical and diagnostic approach to the neurological patient at an advanced level.
- List, classify, and demonstrate critical reflection on existing and new approaches to patient diagnosis, therapy, management and client education in a specialty practice situation.
Skills
Within the area of clinical diagnostic neurology the graduate must be able to:
- Apply the quantitative and qualitative methodologies such as performing and applying clinical diagnostic thinking as well as master relevant practical diagnostic skills.
- Identify appropriate image modality and demonstrate knowledge of common diagnostic imaging hallmarks of the neurological patient.
- Understand the interpretation of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and be able to demonstrate critical reflection of pros and cons for CT and MRI and identification of neurological patients suitable for advanced neurological diagnostic procedures.
- Collect and perform interpretation of CSF samples.
- Interpret, assess and reflect on collected patient data in order to identify the nature of the neurological lesion and cause of neurological disease.
- Make clinical decisions, arrive at a diagnosis and consider evidence based scientific approaches in order to plan and administer further appropriate diagnostics, patient therapy and management.
- Continuously seek out, reflect on and apply new evidence based methods and solution models.
- Communicate and discuss academic issues and solution models with both peers and non-specialists at an advanced level and across disciplines within companion animal practice.
- Communicate effectively in writing and pass on results to relevant parties.
Competences
The graduate must be able to:
- Evaluate and diagnose companion animals with neurological diseases.
- Educate owners of patients with acute and chronic neurological disorders with respect to diagnostic approach, short and long-term treatment and prognosis.
- Work independently, take responsibility for, predict, prognosticate and make decisions within clinical neurology at an advanced level.
Admission criteria
You must meet the following criteria to be admitted to this course:
- Hold a degree in Veterinary Medicine
- Hold one of the following certifications
- DVA Certificate in Small Animal Diseases (equivalent to the 4 compulsory courses of the Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science)
- Swedish / Norwegian / Finnish specialist in diseases of dogs and cats
- Equivalent competences
- Have a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience from companion animal practice
- Be proficient in English
Find detailed information about the formal requirements for this course.
Read more about admission on the main page of Master of Companion Animal Clinical Science.
Tuition fees
EU/EEA citizens*
Single course student: 33,500 DKK
Master student: 30,000 DKK
Non-EU/EEA citizens
Single course student: 37,740 DKK
Master student: 34,240 DKK
Tuition fees include course materials and lunch/coffee. Books are not included in the tuition fees and must be purchased by the participants.
*Citizens of the EU, EEA or Switzerland is entitled to a subsidised tuition fee, due to EU legislation, hence the difference in price.
Location
University of Copenhagen
University Hospital for Companion Animals
Dyrlægevej 16
1958 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Contact
Christine Gulstad
Study Administration Officer
Tel.: +45 35 32 12 73
Mette Berendt
DVM, PhD, ECVN-Assoc, National Specialist in Neurology
Mette Berendt graduated and received her PhD (in 1998) from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (now University of Copenhagen), Denmark. Hereafter she continued as an academic staff member at this institution. Since 2004 Mette Berendt has been Head of Neurology at the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. This includes running a busy Neurology Referral Service and research group at the University Companion Animal Teaching Hospital. From 2013-2020 she was Head of Section for Surgery, Neurology & Cardiology.
Mette Berendt has an extended CV, including a one-year external stay at Cornell University, USA, and one year as Associate Professor at the Veterinary University in Oslo, Norway. Internationally, she is highly recognized as an energetic state-of-the-art speaker and first or senior author of numerous scientific publications within the area of clinical and comparative neurology. In 2011, Mette Berendt received the award of Associate Member of the European College of Veterinary Neurology (ECVN) motivated by her significant scientific contribution to Veterinary Neurology.
Hanne B. Gredal
DVM, PhD, National Specialist in Neurology
Hanne Gredal completed her veterinary education at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL) in 2000 and worked in small animal practice until 2006. In 2006, she returned to KVL, where she, in collaboration with ChesterGates Referral Hospital in England, conducted a PhD on stroke/apoplexy in dogs. After completing her PhD, she continued her research in the same field for several years.
In recent years, her research has particularly focused on non-infectious inflammatory CNS diseases (autoimmune meningitis and encephalitis), which constitute a significant patient group in the neurological clinic. However, her interests in clinical neurology are broad