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Small animal care and pet grooming training courses are growing in popularity. DCA Home Learning courses are a flexible alternative to traditional animal care and pet grooming training courses because you can learn direct from home.

Whether your interest is veterinary assistance, small animal care or pet grooming, training yourself with a DCA home learning course means you can fit studies around your job and lifestyle.

Take a different approach to your pet grooming training and enrol with DCA home learning today!

Veterinary Assistant
Supported Home Study
Course Summary

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Reach Your Potential as a Veterinary Assistant

Are you concerned when animals are hurt, ill or distressed?

You can help animals and work with them everyday with a highly rewarding career as a Veterinary Assistant.

A challenging and satisfying career, animal care offers secure employment, attractive salaries and wide ranging job opportunities not only in veterinary practices but also with the likes of pet stores, breeders, farms and kennels.

With so may species, veterinary medicine is extremely complex and veterinary surgeons will usually be looking for veterinary assistants with more than simple a love of animals. The DCA Veterinary Assistants’ Diploma will give you the edge over other applicants with a course compiled by veterinary surgeons and other animal care specialists.

Providing you with skills including animal handling and behaviour, treatment techniques and medical procedures, pharmacology and anaesthetics together with business management and even livestock practices for farm animals, this course is your gateway to a career in animal care.

The course includes:
• Animal and human nature
• Restraint and handling of animals
• Diagnostic imaging, sampling and treatment techniques
• Small animal medical nursing
• Wound management
• Food, animal medicine and surgery.

As a DCA student, your course fee covers everything you will need to complete the Veterinary Assistant home study course successfully and earn a DCA Diploma accredited by NCFE:

• Textbooks are provided with each module
• Study guides and learning aids specially designed for home study
• A full range of student services, including on-line assessments
• A personalised diploma upon course completion
• Unlimited educational support by e-mail or freephone
• Free postage and packaging.


Get started today, and you can earn your Veterinary Assistant Diploma in as little as six months, or take up to two years, if you prefer – the choice is yours.
As I started work at a veterinary clinic just before commencing the course, all the information has been very helpful in understanding the ups and downs of this very complex job. — Shirley Ginger
Thank you for the interesting course. I have enjoyed it so much and am looking forward to the next course. — Jacqui Downes
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