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Equine and farm practice RVC CPD 2023 RVC CPD 2023 Equine and farm practice

Webinar Plus: Equine anaesthesia Webinar: How to approach animal Equine MRI online Recorded Webinar Series:
health issues on organic farms Equine dermatology

Monday 24th April UPDATED Monday 11th September Recorded webinars with a live Q&A NEW
to Sunday 21st May Monday 22nd May to Sunday 22nd October on Tuesday 19th September

“There are no safe anaesthetic agents, there are no safe anaesthetic Are you meeting your organic clients’ needs and helping them to ensure Are you using or planning to use MRI in your practice? Do you want to get What’s the current approach to equine skin diseases? Find out how to
procedures. There are only safe anaesthetists.” Robert Smith, MD animal welfare? more confident in acquiring the best images possible? Do you want to accurately diagnose and effectively manage skin conditions in horses.
make sense of the use of different sequences to optimise your studies?
This online course is designed to instil confidence in veterinary surgeons Organic farms require a preventive approach on dealing with health This recorded webinar series along with a live Q&A session has been
who are tasked with responsibility for anaesthesia in equine practices. issues. This webinar will help you understand organic principles and This course is designed to help you to understand MRI technology and designed to provide practitioners with the tools to work up and effectively
standards and give an overview of the organic market. A variety of health how it can best be utilised for your patients. Besides covering the basic manage the array of skin conditions encountered in horses.
The case discussions will include controversies within equine issues in cattle and sheep will be covered and potential approaches for physical principles, artefacts and acquisition protocols, participants will
anaesthesia, and the evidence base for these. As such they will responsible veterinary care within the organic regulations discussed. learn a basic systematic approach to read MRI images and recognise Why do this course?
improve your reflective skills and encourage audit of your own practice. The series of webinars are for new graduates through to advanced
Areas covered will include mastitis, calf diseases, parasite control and lesions. For each area, the cross-sectional anatomy and normal variations
Why do this course? trace element deficiencies. will be reviewed. A variety of cases will be used for individual review and practitioners. The focus will be on practical yet thorough diagnostic
workups and practical treatment options.
You will improve your ability to anaesthetise a horse safely and increase Why do this course? case discussion.
your confidence when dealing with challenging equine anaesthetics. Key areas
You will become familiar with the underlying principles of organic livestock Why do this course?
Key areas farming and will have a working knowledge of the standards. You will be At the end of the course you will be more confident in acquiring MRI Pruritus in the horse
• Parasitic and infectious itchy skin diseases
• Practical equine anaesthesia including sedation, induction and more confident in applying this knowledge to approach common health images and developing your own structured approach for use of different • Non allergic causes of pruritus
recovery methods issues within organic standards. sequences as well as gaining confidence in recognising common and
• Basic cardiovascular and respiratory physiology in horses and the Key Areas not so common lesions. Equine Allergies
support of cardiovascular and respiratory function under general • Different policies on antibiotic usage Key areas • Diagnosing allergic skin disease
anaesthesia • Long term management of allergic horses
• Available pain assessment methods and mechanism-based analgesic • Mastitis • Practical review of MRI technology • Use of glucocorticoids in the horse
• Calf diseases
• MRI anatomy of the distal limb
management options and controversies in horses • Sweet itch
• Field anaesthesia and emergency cases including anaesthesia • Preventive medicine • Protocols for acquiring MRI images of the foot, pastern, fetlock Lumps and bumps
and suspensory ligament distal limb
• Parasite control
of foals, donkeys, pregnant mares and other difficult cases.
• Trace element deficiencies • Learn a practical and structured approach to reading MRI images • Sarcoids
Previous participants have commented… Course details • Recognise artefacts and incidental findings • Melanomas
“I have learned a great deal on how to improve my anesthetic technique. Course type: Webinar • Practice your MRI reading skills using cases • Neoplastic differential diagnoses
Some of which I have already applied in practice with good results.” • Non-neoplastic skin tumours
Course format: Live webinar with an opportunity for Q&A with Previous participants have commented…
“Great course with great information and instruction. I’ve already the lecturer plus access to a recorded version for 2 weeks “My understanding of MRI interpretation was greatly improved over Course details
applied concepts from the course into practice.” Course length: 2 hours the course.” Course type: Recorded webinars with a live Q&A
CPD hours: 2 Course format: Series of pre-recorded webinars available to view
“I really enjoyed the course and feel way more prepared to do more Course fee: £55 Course details prior to a live Q&A with all the tutors on the 19th September
anaesthesia going forward.” Course type: e-CPD Course length: 5 hours of recorded lectures and 1 hour for the live Q&A
*Recorded versions will be made available to purchase for £35 Course format: An intensive tutor-moderated online learning experience.
Course details approximately 2 weeks after the live course date. Resources include electronic course notes, case assessments and CPD hours: Up to 6
Course type: Webinar Plus with a live weekly Q&A session discussion forums in which participants review and discuss cases with Relevant to CertAVP modules: Equine Practice (B-EP.3),
Course format: A mixture of pre-recorded weekly webinars (which can Tutor their colleagues and the tutor Equine General Medicine (C-E.3), Equine Dermatology (C-VD.4)
be reviewed throughout the course), live weekly Q&A sessions with the Peter Plate Dr.med.vet MRCVS, Lecturer in Livestock Veterinary Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £179
tutors, online case assessment exercises, quizzes, supplementary reading Extension Services, RVC CPD hours: Up to 42 Tutors
material and online tutor-moderated discussion forums Relevant to CertAVP modules: Large Animal Imaging (C-VDI.4 and 5) Ross Bond BVM&S PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS, Professor of
Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £729 Veterinary Dermatology, RVC
CPD hours: Up to 16 Andy Fiske-Jackson BVSc MVetMed DipECVS FHEA MRCVS,
Relevant to CertAVP module: Equine Anaesthesia (C-VA.2) Tutors Associate Professor of Equine Surgery, RVC
Course fee: £399 Dagmar Berner Dr.med.vet. DipECVDI MRCVS, Lecturer in Equine Mike Hewetson BSc BVSc CertEM DipECEIM MRCVS, Senior
Diagnostic Imaging, RVC
Tutors Maren Hellige Dr.med.vet. MRCVS, Senior Veterinarian in Radiology, Lecturer in Equine Medicine (Clinical Educator Track), RVC
Kathy Clarke MA VetMB DVetMed DVA DipECVAA FRCVS, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Anette Loeffler DrMedVet PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS, Associate
Honorary Professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia, RVC Gabriel Manso Díaz DVM MSc PhD DipECVDI MRCVS, Lecturer in Professor of Veterinary Dermatology, RVC
Johanna Kaartinen Msc PhD DipECVAA MRCVS, Large Animal Diagnostic Imaging, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Nicola Menzies-Gow MA VetMB PhD DipECEIM CertEM (Int.med)
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia, RVC Consultant in Equine Diagnostic Imaging, RVC FHEA MRCVS, Professor in Equine Medicine, RVC
Janny de Grauw DVM PhD DipECVAA MRCVS,
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, RVC

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