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Applied Clinical Neurology
Module 5 - Enhance skills in applied clinical neurology through advanced neuro-anatomy, diagnostic methodologies, and systematic neurological patient assessment.
This course is a part of
Companion Animal NEUROLOGY - Advanced course - Module 5
Enhance skills in applied clinical neurology through advanced neuro-anatomy, diagnostic methodologies, and systematic neurological patient assessment.
This course module has a strong emphasis on the principles and practical application of the neurological examination, applied neuro-anatomy, lesion localization and the characteristics, therapeutic options and prognosis of specific neurological diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as planning of diagnostic procedures.
The level of prior knowledge and skills within clinical neurology from both veterinary candidate level and the compulsory part of the master-education will be further developed in order to form a solid platform within clinical neurology. In theory and by practical exercises, the participant can expect that professional skills and competences within the subject of clinical companion animal neurology will be extended at an advanced level.
The participants’ will be encouraged to define, identify and discuss veterinary methodology and paraclinical tools in systematised reflective clinical decision making in companion animal clinical neurology.
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 Applied Clinical Neurology
Mette BerendtProfessor |
Hanne Birgit GredalAssociate Professor |
Course details on Applied Clinical Neurology
Dates and examination
Course dates 2025
10 - 14 November 2025
Course dates 2027
15 - 19 November 2027
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 diagnostic methodology and paraclinical options in systematised reflective clinical decision-making in companion animal clinical neurology.
- Explain, reflect and demonstrate a systematic clinical approach to the neurological patient at an advanced level.
- Reflect on the significance of applied neuro-anatomy in the clinical approach to the neurological patient.
- Demonstrate critical reflection with respect to diagnostic planning in a specialty practice situation
- Discuss the fundamental prerequisites for appropriate preparation of diagnostic protocols.
- List appropriate differential diagnoses according to the neurological signs and the development of disease.
Skills
Within the area of clinical neurology, the graduate must be able to:
- Apply methodologies such as performing and applying clinical neurological examination and use basic diagnostic tools for relevant neurological cases in companion animals with the purpose to assess CNS function and detect CNS and PNS lesions.
- Analyse and reflect on collected data in order to discriminate between neurological and non-neurological conditions and relevant neurological differential diagnosis.
- Demonstrate the systematic approach to interpret, assess and reflect on collected patient data in order to localize a lesion neuro-anatomically and identify the 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.
- Communicate effectively in writing and pass on results to relevant parties.
Competences
The graduate must be able to:
- Evaluate companion animal diseases within clinical neurology.
- Work independently, take responsibility for, predict, prognosticate and make decisions within clinical neurology at an advanced level.
- Make ethical considerations regarding diagnostic methods and therapeutic initiatives and place these into perspective.
- Educate owners of acute and chronic neurological patients concerning acute and long-term medical treatment, respectively, as well as recovery and rehabilitation.
- Independently evaluate and structure own learning processes and continuously obtain new knowledge at a specialty level within companion animal clinical neurology.
- Use relevant scientific literature in the field of companion animal clinical neurology.
- Evaluate different patient types combining the above achieved skills.
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
Professor
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
Associate Professor
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