Nutrition
Clinical Nutrition II – In Depth Knowledge in Clinical Nutrition Including Ration Calculation
preregistration open
Vienna / Austria
17.11.2025 – 21.11.2025
TBA EURO .-*
TBA EURO .-*(early registration deadline: 01.06.2025)
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
Principal Course Master:
Dr. Stefanie Handl, specialist in veterinary nutrition and dietetics, Dipl. ECVCN (AT)
Course Master:
Dr.med.vet. Irene Bruckner, specialist in veterinary nutrition and dietetics (AT)
Course Overview
In this advanced course, participants will get a profoundly knowledge on nutrition physiology and will learn to perform nutrition consultation and calculate homemade diets for cats and dogs. After repetition of the basics, knowledge on the dietary principles of the most important diseases seen in cats and dogs will be deepened, based on the paradigm of evidence-based medicine. Further, participants will get insight into nutrition of exotic pets and zoo animals and the latest in nutrition research.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Understand nutrition physiology and nutrient requirements in health and disease
• Develop detailed dietary plans including treats and feeding techniques for the most common diseases in cats and dogs
• Formulate homemade diets for healthy and diseased cats and dogs
• Recognize and treat the most common consequences of feeding mistakes in exotic pets
Main topics:
• refresher digestive anatomy and physiology
• refresher nutrient requirements in different life stages
• applied feed science
• EU feed legislation
• Calculating different homemade diets, from BARF to vegan
• Feeding & animal welfare
• dietetic principles, owner consultation and ration calculation in
– obesity
– food allergy
– skin disease
– acute and chronic gastroenteritis
– hepatic disease
– pancreatitis / pancreatic insufficiency
– orthopaedic disease
– chronic renal insufficiency
– urolithiasis
– endocrinological disorders
• Common feeding mistakes in rabbits, rodents, and exotics
Course program (Subject to change)
Monday, 17 November 2025
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration
09:00 – 10.30 Workshop – what has happened since the first course, how´s it going? – Memory
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Requirements and nutrients recap
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:45 Calculation basics by hand
14:45 – 15:30 Nutritional assessment and owner communication in practice
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30 Workshop owner communication prep
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
08:30 – 10:30 Recap from Monday – QUIZ – owner communication workshop
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Legislation and analysis, evaluating commercial diets and snacks
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Ingredients, production, QM in therapeutic diets
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Calculation software introduction, basic calculations
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
08:30 – 09:00 QUIZ
09:00 – 10.00 Derma recap / calculating elimination diets & cases
10:00 – 10:30 Gastro diseases recap
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Comparison commercial gastrointestinal diets, cases, tips for owners – workshop
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Recap pancreas, calculations for gastrointestinal/pancreas patients, cases
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Standards revised – time for new markers in canine hepatobiliary diseases -Prof. Iwan Burgener
16:00 – 17:00 How to diagnose and treat canine and feline pancreatitis – Prof.Iwan Burgener ,VetMedUni Vienna
Thursday, 20 November 2025
08:30 – 09: 15 Wrap up Wednesday and QUIZ
09:00 – 10:30 Recap CRI + evaluating commercial diets, cases
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Calculation for kidney patients / multiple conditions
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Recap urinary patient / diet evaluation
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Calculate diets urinary patients / evaluation of snacks, cases
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up
Friday, 21 November 2025
08:30 – 9:00 QUIZ
09:00 – 10:00 Insects in Pet Food – Dr. Guido Bosch, Wageningen University and Research
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Diabetes and Obesity – Dr. Brigitta Wichert / Vetsuisse University Zürich
11:30 – 12:00 Cases diabetes and obesity
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Breeding pets/ growth recap – calculate growth curves, cases
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00 Multimorbid patients – cases
16:00 – 16:30 Wrap up and goodbye