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Webinar Plus: Responsible antimicrobial Webinar Plus: Interpreting the numbers Webinar Plus: Dermatology essentials Webinar Plus: Diagnostic modalities for
use in small animal practice – understanding clinical pathology in Monday 27th April to Sunday 24th May GI, liver and pancreatic disease
Monday 13th April to Sunday 24th May NEW medical cases Monday 8th June to Sunday 5th July
Do you want to provide the best care for patients with chronic skin
Do you worry about antimicrobial resistance, but you still want the best Monday 13th April to Sunday 10th May and ear disease? Do you sometimes struggle to decide what diagnostic test is going to be
treatment outcomes for your canine and feline patients? Dermatological cases in small animal practice are common, challenging most helpful for a patient you suspect has GI, liver or pancreatic disease?
What does a positive PLI really mean? Does every patient with azotaemia
Using antimicrobials wisely and well is an essential element of good have renal failure? How helpful is SDMA in answering this question? and often frustrating to manage successfully. This online course will Does the thought of doing a liver, pancreatic or intestinal biopsy send
clinical practice. General guidelines are useful, but practitioners are refresh and update your knowledge and understanding of the most shivers down your spine?
often looking for more specific information relevant to their clinical Clinical pathology tests are a very important part of the diagnostic common dermatological disorders to enhance your patient management During this multidisciplinary course we will tackle the diagnostic
cases – knowing what is appropriate to use in different disorders tools veterinary practitioners need to diagnose and manage diseases in and client communication. It will help you to improve your diagnostic skills challenges relating to liver, pancreatic and gut disease. We will discuss
and, just as importantly, when antimicrobials are not indicated. This small animal patients. They are also frequently run to screen patients in and to make use of in-house tests that are relevant and practical in small a logical approach to the clinical signs a patient with abdominal
course will provide you with the most recent evidence, best treatment preparation for anaesthesia or in geriatric patients as part of a “health animal clinics as well as update you on responsible use of antimicrobials disorders may present with and clin path interpretation challenges. The
recommendations and context on how to use antimicrobials responsibly profile”. in patients with recurrent infections. role of abdominal radiology vs abdominal ultrasound and other imaging
in small animal practice. It will be delivered by a team of expert clinicians The course will enhance your ability to make sense of clinical pathology Course details modalities such as CT will be discussed – is there one modality that
with particular interest and expertise in antimicrobial use in their field. tests that are run every day in practice but can sometimes be more is always best? And then finally, the principles of surgical procedures
confusing than illuminating. Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 involving the gut, liver and pancreas will be reviewed.
Common scenarios and dilemmas in the context of antimicrobial therapy
will be discussed. This will help you with challenging treatment decisions Course details Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Course details
on antimicrobial therapy at a time when antimicrobial resistance has Tutors
become one of the major threats to human and animal health. Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16
You can also purchase individual webinars from this course to attend live. Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Ross Bond BVM&S PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS, Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429
Please note that buying webinars separately does not grant access to the Relevant to CertAVP module(s): B-SAP.1, C-SAM.8, 9 and 10, C-VP.2 Professor of Veterinary Dermatology, RVC Relevant to CertAVP module(s): B-SAP.1 and C-SAM.9
full course materials. Anke Hendricks DrMedVet CertVD DipECVD PGCertAP FHEA MRCVS,
Tutors Associate Professor in Veterinary Dermatology, RVC Tutors
Course details David Church BVSc PhD MACVSc FHEA MRCVS, Anette Loeffler DrMedVet PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS, Cathy Beck BVSc DipVetClinStud MVS GCUT FANZCVS (Radiology),
Course type: Webinar Plus Course fee: Webinar Plus: £649; Professor of Small Animal Studies, RVC Professor of Veterinary Dermatology, RVC Consultant Radiologist, VetCT
Course length: 6 weeks Webinars only: £75 per webinar Emma Holmes BVetMed MVetMed DipACVP Clinpath FHEA MRCVS, Katarina Varjonen MSc DipECVD, Veterinary Dermatologist, Jill Maddison BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD FACVSc SFHEA MRCVS,
CPD hours: Up to 24 or £425 for all 6 Clinical Pathologist II, IDEXX Laboratories Ltd Anicura, Stockholm Professor of General Practice, RVC
Jill Maddison BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD FACVSc SFHEA MRCVS, Rhiannon Strickland BVetMed MVetMed PGCertVetEd DipECVS FHEA
Tutors Professor of General Practice, RVC MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Dan Brockman BVSc CertVR CertSAO DipACVS DipECVS MRCVS,
Professor of Small Animal Surgery, RVC
Dan Chan DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS,
Professor of Emergency and Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition, RVC
Rosanne Jepson BVSc MVetMed PhD DipACVIM DipECVIM-CA FHEA Webinar Plus: Behavioural medicine in Medical oncology – insights into
MRCVS, Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine, RVC general veterinary practice diagnostics and chemotherapy online
Aarti Kathrani BVetMed PhD DipACVIM (SAIM) DipACVIM (Nutrition)
FHEA MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine, RVC Monday 27th April to Sunday 24th May Monday 1st June to Sunday 12th July
Anette Loeffler DrMedVet PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS, Emotional health impacts on physical health! Would you like to strengthen your confidence and enhance your skills in
Professor of Veterinary Dermatology, RVC diagnosing and managing cancers in dogs and cats?
Chris Scudder BVSc MVetMed PhD DACVIM-SAIM, DECVIM-CA Emotional health is important when investigating a client’s concerns This course will provide you with an overview of different diagnostic
about their pet’s behaviour but it also impacts on their physical health.
MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine, RVC
It therefore needs to be considered during every veterinary visit and when tools used in oncology, when they are indicated and how to interpret
Sarah Tayler BVetMed MVetMed PGDipVCP Dip-ACVIM MRCVS, managing and treating everyday physical health issues within general the results, including their advantages and disadvantages for different
Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine, RVC practice. The interplay between emotional and physical health has been neoplasms. We will focus on diagnostic procedures that can be used in
highlighted in conditions such as Feline Idiopathic Cystitis, but the general practice to diagnose lymphoma, mammary carcinoma, soft tissue
importance of taking a comprehensive veterinary healthcare approach sarcoma, and respiratory tumours. Once a cancer has been diagnosed,
is relevant to a wide range of clinical conditions including endocrine there are a variety of chemotherapy protocols available and choosing
disease, gastrointestinal and dermatological conditions and pain. between them can be challenging. This course therefore aims to discuss
The role of the veterinary practice in safeguarding the emotional health the advantages of certain protocols over others, their safe administration,
of their patients will be explored and the importance of considering adequate monitoring of patients to limit side effects, and how to treat
emotional health when managing and treating everyday clinical cases in adverse events.
general practice will be considered. Course details
Course details Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42
Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16 Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £729
Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429 Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-SAM.10
Tutor Tutors
Sarah Heath BVSc PGCertVE DipECAWBM (BM) CCAB FRCVS,
RCVS and EBVS® Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine, Alexandra Guillén DVM DipECVIM-CA (Oncology) MRCVS, Ascot, Border Collie
Behavioural Referrals Veterinary Practice, Chester Lecturer in Veterinary Oncology, RVC
Andy Yale BVMedSci BVM BVS PGDipVCP MVetMed DipECVIM-CA
(Oncology) MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Oncology, RVC