The dedicated course for the University of Calgary has the following main objectives:

• explain the pathogenesis of FMD; 
• describe the clinical signs of FMD in cattle, small ruminants, and pigs; 
• describe how to age FMD lesions; 
• explain how to take correct diagnostic samples to enable laboratory confirmation of an FMD diagnosis; 
• explain how to conduct an epidemiological investigation on a premises where FMD is suspected/confirmed; 
• explain how to enter and leave a premises suspected of FMD in a biosecure manner; 
• describe key aspects of the control measures which are used in an FMD outbreak in a previously free country.