Lifestyle Learning Direct

Animal Health Care Online

Interested in animals? Would you like to increase your knowledge of animal health for your own personal use, or even as a platform to further education? Whatever your goal, the Animal Health Care course is a great way to get you started.

Learn to care for the health of any type of animal (with a focus on mammals and birds) and understand the scope of services offered by animal care services, including veterinary practices. This course is appropriate for anyone interested in working with animals, such as on a farm, a in a wildlife park or veterinary practice.

Lifestyle Learning Direct's Animal Health Care course is a sound foundation course, designed to cover most of what is found in a typical veterinary assistant's course in many countries around the world. Plus, as your course is delivered by distance education, there are no timetables to adhere to so your study can fit around your current lifestyle.

Key areas of learning - Animal Health Care course

  • Introduction to animal health care
  • Common health problems in farm animals and pets
  • Animal behaviour
  • Signs of ill-health
  • Veterinary facilities
  • Safety procedures
  • Administration and animal health
  • Animal first aid
  • Preventative health care
  • Routine health treatments
  • Health problems in domestic pets
  • Rehabilitation care

We thank our affiliate ACS for supplying the content for this course.

Delivery Options

Online - upfront payment only (click on the link below for further details on pricing and enrolment)