The training consists in a two and a half days face-to-face workshop. The workshop will consist in a combination of technical presentations and group tasks/discussions (with an emphasis on the latter), as well as practical aspects (e.g. biosecurity). During the workshop participants will be grouped in small groups performing rotating practical activities (e.g. lesion ageing, sample packing, killing procedures (with models, not alive animals). 

By the end of this course, participants should be able to: 

• identify clinical signs of FMD; 
• estimate lesion aging; 
• document clinical findings; 
• take samples to permit laboratory confirmation of disease; 
• submit samples to the laboratory; 
• interpret laboratory results following submission of suspect FMD samples to the laboratory; 
• construct an epidemiological timeline for backwards and forwards tracing; 
• design and construct an epidemiological investigation using the principles of outbreak investigation; 
• assess risk factors for FMD spread and appraise farm biosecurity; 
• demonstrate principles of biosecurity when entering/exiting FMD infected premises; 
• outline FMD emergency response options available in the scenario provided.