TOPUP QUALIFICATION

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TOP-UP QUALIFICATION

• How it works

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NEW LEGISLATION

• New Qualification
• R-SQP, E-SQP, J-SQP C-SQP
• Current qualification will cover until Oct 2008
• BUT
• Must have completed a top-up before then
• Physically cant all do this in 2008

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Current SQP Conversion

• Conversion System

Current Merchant SQP
Upgrade
Agricultural merchant (all POM-VPS NFA-VPS)
Current Saddler SQP
Upgrade
Companion Animal Horse (POM-VPS NFA-VPS)
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NEW LEGISLATION NEW RESPONSIBILITIES

• Legislation
• Prescribing
• Animal Health Plans (merchants only)
• PLUS
• Can you still do what you could when you
  qualified SQP?

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FORMAT OF TOP-UP

• Exam
• 2 hours as much and more than most people will
  want or need
• Case study prepared beforehand
• Short answer / multiple choice questions

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WHERE AND WHEN

• Exams to be held in all the current training
  centres
• Possibility of other centres for the
  geographically isolated but need groups
• Register for an exam through AMTRA
• Top Up training courses will be available if
  wanted
• Exams will be held from Easter this year
• Cannot all be left until 2008

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TOP-UP ASSESSMENT

• CASE STUDY
• 2 given at time of exam registration
• 1 of these will appear in the exam
• Time to think and prepare an answer before
  attending exam
• No notes taken into the exam
• Not to be a company prepared answer
• Book of products can be used in exam

• TESTS
• Advice
• Knowledge of parasites/problem and control
• Ability to fit advice to a particular client and
  circumstance
• Legislation

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CASE STUDY A

• Dairy Farmer with 200 milking cattle rears own
  replacements, calving at 2 years. Bull calves
  sold at ten days.
• Land sandy and dry. No natural water. New leys
  established every 4 years as part of arable
  rotation except 10 hectares parkland permanent
  grazing- unsuitable for conservation and used for
  grazing yearlings
• History of lungworm in cows four years ago

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CASE STUDY A The Question

• Design a suitable endoparasite control policy for
  this farm with suggested products and an
  approximate timetable. Briefly discuss the
  advantages and disadvantages of different types
  of product that could be used.
• Discuss the information you must get from and
  give to the farmer.
• How must the farmer store, record and dispose of
  any surplus products you sell him. Give any
  safety precautions he should be aware of.

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CASE STUDY B

• Mr Jones has a flock of 300 breeding halfbred
  mules. He buys in 80 replacement gimmers from
  autumn sales around the country. His lambing
  percentage is 170 and lambs in March
• He farms in an upland area on permanent grazing
  adjacent to hill ground. There are no hedges or
  streams.
• His lambs go to market from July and he keeps
  around 100 as stores for the January market

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CASE STUDY B The Question

• Design a suitable ectoparasite control policy for
  this farm with suggested products and an
  approximate timetable. Briefly discuss the
  advantages and disadvantages of different types
  of product that could be used
• Discuss the information you must get from and
  give to the farmer.
• How must the farmer store, record and dispose of
  any surplus products you sell him. Give any
  safety precautions he should be aware of.

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CASE STUDY C

• Miss White is the owner of a livery yard.
• There are stables for 30 horses and her yard is
  always at 80 plus capacity.
• There is a turnaround of around 50 of the
  horses throughout the year.
• Horses are stabled from November to March but
  most are turned out in the day time through the
  rest of the year in 4 paddocks mares in two,
  geldings in the big paddock and difficult horses
  in the little paddock. She has a total of 3
  hectares.
• Miss White would like to minimise any chance f
  horses in her yard having a worm problem and so
  has required all owners to follow a set worming
  policy.

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CASE STUDY C The Question

• Design a suitable endoparasite control policy for
  this yard with suggested products and an
  approximate timetable. Briefly discuss the
  advantages and disadvantages of different types
  of product that could be used
• Discuss the information you must get from and
  give to Miss White.
• How must the Miss White store, record and dispose
  of any surplus products you sell her. Give any
  safety precautions she should be aware of.

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Case studies

• What parasites may be a problem?
• How can they be controlled ?
• With what, when. Are there management decisions
  that could reduce risk?
• Can you provide a product or a series of
  products that cover all likely risks?
• Are you over-treating?
• Have you considered resistance?

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Case study A

• Dairy Farmer with 200 milking cattle rears own
  replacements, calving at 2 years. Bull calves
  sold at ten days.
• Land sandy and dry. No natural water. New leys
  established every 4 years as part of arable
  rotation except 10 hectares parkland permanent
  grazing- unsuitable for conservation and used for
  grazing yearlings
• History of lungworm in cows four years ago

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Case Studies

• Have you asked the right questions?
• Have you obtained and recorded the right
  information? Can you legally sell these products
  to these people?
• Have you considered withholding periods?
• Have you considered the individual circumstances
  of that farm?
• Have you checked on their competence to apply the
  products?
• Do you know what they must do once they have the
  product to stay within the law?

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Case Study B

• Mr Jones has a flock of 300 breeding halfbred
  mules. He buys in 80 replacement gimmers from
  autumn sales around the country. His lambing
  percentage is 170 and lambs in March
• He farms in an upland area on permanent grazing
  adjacent to hill ground. There are no hedges or
  streams.
• His lambs go to market from July and he keeps
  around 100 as stores for the January market

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SHORTANSWER QUESTIONS

• Most on Legislation
• For Merchants some to cover Interpret Health
  Plans
• Some to touch species / conditions not covered in
  case study

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Top up assessment

• You will not get the results the same day delay
  for results will depend on when you take exam
• No viva