The learning objectives of this training are:

• Describe the global distribution, significance and impacts of FMD and other FAST diseases, and the risks and consequences of an FMD or other FAST outbreak.
• Recognize the clinical signs of FMD and priority FAST diseases (LSD, sheep diseases with similar clinical presentations as FMD), based on first-hand field experience of clinical cases.
• Estimate lesion ages and take appropriate clinical records.
• Take appropriate samples to permit laboratory confirmation of disease, and submit them to the laboratory appropriately.
• Interpret laboratory results following submission of suspect FMD or other FAST samples to the laboratory.
• Understand the epidemiology of FMD and key differences with other FAST diseases, including risk factors for transmission, mechanisms of disease spread, construction of timelines and forward and backward tracing.
• Apply epidemiological principles to on-farm and in-field investigations, including design of investigation forms. and explaining how key differences in the epidemiology of non-FMD EADs affect processes for outbreak investigation of these diseases.
• Understand the principles of biosecurity and their application to personnel entering into FMD infected premises. explain how key differences in the pathogenesis and transmissibility of non-FMD EADs affect biosecurity measures that should be applied.
• Undertake rapid assessments for risk factors (and/or biosecurity practices) for FMD cases at farm level.
• Outline FMD emergency preparedness activities and disease response options available in their country.