Animal Medicines Training and Regulatory Authority - AMTRA
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Course Duration
3-7 days
3-7 days3-7 days
Course Location
Greenmount Campus
Animal Medicines Training and Regulatory Authority – AMTRA
AMTRA is an independent regulatory body whose task it is to ensure that the prescription and supply of VPS animal medicines in the UK is undertaken in a responsible manner by suitably qualified persons, known as an SQP.An SQP is an animal medicines advisor, a legal category of professionally qualified persons who are entitled to prescribe and/or supply certain veterinary medicines under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations.
What’s necessary to become an SQP?
To qualify as an SQP a person must undertake relevant training and pass examinations approved by AMTRA, and pass a viva (oral exam) conducted by an AMTRA assessor.
- Most SQPs become qualified via a modular approach (see below);
- qualified Veterinary Nurses can become SQPs via a top-up exam that recognises their existing qualification;
For those student SQPs enrolling via the most common, modular approach, all must pass the Base module and between one and three additional species modules: these determine the category of SQP qualification obtained. The species modules are:
- FAM – Farm Animal Module
- EQM – Equine Module
- CAM – Companion Animal Module
- AVM – Avian Module
This course generally runs in the autumn with assessment the following year around Easter time. For more information please contact a member of our team.
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Fees
£220 - £382 per module