Postgraduate Certificate Professional Development in Small Animal Dentistry
Become a Dynamic Small Animal Dentist in just 12 months!
Secure your place on the 2025 intake now with a deposit of £997 + VAT.
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This course, starting in October 2025, will help you to develop your confidence and skills in small animal dentistry and gain a valuable qualification in as little as 12 months.
Reserve your place now, and look forward to nine full days of hands-on practical dentistry training with expert and approachable tutors helping you develop your skills.
You’ll also get:-
- Full support for continuous assessment by critically reflective essay – no formal exams
- Primarily Practical Training – 9 days of hands-on practicals to develop new skills
- Valuable work-based learning skills that you can use throughout your career
- Extensive online resources to provide a framework for your study – webinars, online Mini Series courses, eBooks and bespoke reflective writing resources
- RCVS Knowledge Library membership and Journal of Veterinary Dentistry online membership – access to a wide range of full text eJournals
- A whole range of Course Bonuses including a text book, surgical instruments and CPD Vouchers
- A valuable PgCert qualification from the University of Chester, leaders in work based learning
Your programme is divided into three modules and each module commences with a practical attendance session where you’ll learn new skills to take back to your practice:
- Essentials of Small Animal Dentistry
- Exodontics and Feline Dentistry
- Paediatric, Geriatric and Advanced Small Animal Dentistry
Practical attendance sessions:
- 1st to 3rd October 2025 (3 days)
- 4th to 6th February 2026 (3 days)
- 17th to 19th June 2026 (3 days)
You’ll combine these structured attendance courses with work-based reflective learning. During each module, you’ll complete a reflective essay that will be assessed by your tutor. You’ll receive plenty of help and guidance on how to write the essay and feedback on a draft from your tutor.
Course Tutors
Alex Smithson BVM&S BDS(Hons) CertEndodontology MRCVS
Gerhard Putter BVSc DEVDC MRCVS MANZCVS (Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery)
Alix Freeman BA MA BVSc DipEVDC MRCVS, EBVS European and RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Dentistry
Andrew Perry BVSc DipEVDC MRCVS, EBVS European Specialist in Veterinary Dentistry
What’s your investment?
You can secure your place on this small group programme with a non-refundable deposit of £997 + VAT (£1196.40) paid to CPD Solutions. Then you have 3 payment options:
1. Use your Early Bird offer to save £500 on your course fee plus a further 10% off (your total saving is £1594.70 + VAT ) when you make full payment within 2 weeks of receiving your CPD Solutions invoice. The total CPD Solutions fee that you pay (inclusive of the deposit) is £9852.30 + VAT (£11,822.76).
2. Pay in full at least 8 weeks before the course starts. The total CPD Solutions fee that you pay (inclusive of the deposit) is £11,447 + VAT (£13,736.40).
3. Spread your payments. After your initial deposit of £997 + VAT (£1196.40) you can choose to pay £2500 + VAT (£3000) by 31st July 2025, then 6 payments of £1325 + VAT (£1590) monthly from 1st September 2025 until 1st February 2026. The total CPD Solutions fee that you pay is £11,447 + VAT (£13,736.40).
You also need to register with the University of Chester. The current 2024-25 registration fee is £2835* (no VAT applies) for UK students or £4425* (no VAT applies) for EU/International students.
* All registration fees listed are for the 2024-25 academic year and will be subject to an increase for the 2025-26 academic year, which commences August 2025.
Applicants for this study route must hold a veterinary degree and have at least 2 years postgraduate clinical experience. EU/International applicants who are not RCVS Members will need to satisfy the English Language proficiency requirements of the University of Chester (please see https://www.chester.ac.uk/international/how-to-apply/entry-requirements).
Any questions? Please call us on 0151 328 0444 or email [email protected] and we’ll be delighted to help you.
Course feedback:
“Completing the PgCert has given me both practical skills and confidence to forward my interest in veterinary dentistry and allowed me to provide the best patient care possible. The tutors are excellent and very approachable, and the content is very clinically relevant. I am happy I made the decision to enrol.”
Charlotte Nicholson MRCVS
“I thoroughly enjoyed the Small Animal Dentistry course and feel I’ve progressed in this discipline massively since the start.”
Eleanor Cowton MRCVS
“Excellent course with lots of scope for practical learning and experience.”
Laura Prendergast MRCVS
“Brilliant practical sessions with lively in-depth discussions. Good time-frame over which to learn and feel improvement.”
Mary Raho MRCVS
“I finally feel confident to be extracting teeth safely and with the least trauma possible. Dentistry is much less stressful.”
Tim Pearson MRCVS
“Loved it. Already feel my dentistry has improved a lot because of what I have learnt.”
Robert Smith MRCVS
Any questions? Please call us on 0151 328 0444 or email [email protected] and we’ll be delighted to help you.