Nutrition
Clinical Nutrition II
registration open
Vienna / Austria
13.05.2024 – 17.05.2024
2.200 EURO .-*
2.100 EURO .-*(early registration deadline: 28.11.2023)
* 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, 13 May 2024
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Registration
09:00 – 09:45 Recap physiology & anatomy
09:45 – 10:30 Refresher comparative nutrition
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Recap nutrients and requirements
11:45 – 12:30 Practical feeding management for owners and inpatients
12:30 – 13:30 lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Insights in the work of a feed legislation officer
14:30 – 15:30 Workshop: “food memory”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Discussing modern feeding trends: BARF to vegan
18:00 Welcome Drink
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
08:30 – 09:00 Recap from Monday
09:00 – 09:45 Workshop: energy requirements, patient assessment, BCS & MCS
09:45 – 10:30 Introducing software for ration calculation for healthy adult animals
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Ration calculation for growth
11:45 – 12:30 Case discussion: homemade diets gone wrong
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Recap quiz: Nutrients for skin health
15:00 – 15:30 Workup of the dermatological patient, allergy diagnosis
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Formulating elimination diets, consulting owners of allergic patients
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
08:30 – 09:00 Recap from Tuesday
09:00 – 09:45 Pathophysiology of obesity, insight into latest research
09:45 – 10:30 Designing an individual weight loss programme
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Workup of gastrointestinal patients
11:45 – 12:30 GI case studies
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00 Pancreatic diseases
14:00 – 15:00 Workshop: case studies liver, pancreas; ration calculations
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Assessing the microbiome in practice
Thursday, 16 May 2024
08:30 – 09:30 Recap from Wednesday
09:30 – 10:30 The urinary tract patient: diets for different stones including calculations
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Renal Health – nutrients, diets and calculations
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 “The stressed cat”: Idiopathic cystitis, cat´s feeding behaviour and management
14:15 – 15:15 Reptiles, zoo animals: practical cases
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 Feeding and animal welfare
Friday, 17 May 2024
09:00 – 10:00 Diabetes and other endocrinological diseases
10:00 – 10:30 Nutrients and requirements for oncology patients
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Intensive care nutrition – enteral vs. parenteral
11:45 – 12:30 Pathophysiology of Bone structure and nutrients
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Workup of Rabbits and rodents
14:30 – 15:15 the future of feeding (like insect -based diets), sustainability
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 CASUS case