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Learn to read radiographs online Basic echocardiography Abdominal ultrasonography online Webinar Plus: Diagnostic modalities for
Monday 26th January to Sunday 8th March or Wednesday 4th February Monday 20th April to Sunday 24th May UPDATED GI, liver and pancreatic disease
Monday 28th September to Sunday 8th November and Wednesday 4th March Monday 8th June to Sunday 5th July
Would you like to start to build your ultrasound knowledge and skills
Struggling with knowing whether that white bit on the lung is really a Have an ultrasound machine in your practice, but reluctant to use it to from the comfort of your own computer? Do you sometimes struggle to decide what diagnostic test is going to be
problem? Worried that you might miss an intestinal obstruction of a image the heart? Already doing abdominal ultrasound, but nervous to go This online course is designed to provide you with the knowledge most helpful for a patient you suspect has GI, liver or pancreatic disease?
foreign body? Wondering what is this funky-looking lesion in the stifle? north of the diaphragm? and skills required to perform a basic abdominal ultrasonographic Does the thought of doing a liver, pancreatic or intestinal biopsy send
In other words – would you like to enhance your confidence in interpreting This course is designed to provide participants with the foundations examination. At the end of the course you will have developed techniques shivers down your spine?
radiographs? During this course, you will enhance your knowledge of required to perform a basic echocardiographic examination, and a and a structured approach to allow you to perform a basic abdominal During this multidisciplinary course we will tackle the diagnostic
small animal radiology and sharpen your skills at reading radiographs. A protocol to follow to obtain standard two-dimensional echocardiography ultrasound in a dog or cat. challenges relating to liver, pancreatic and gut disease. We will discuss
variety of radiographic cases will be used for individual review and group (2D echo) images. You will learn how to identify normal cardiac anatomy The online course is followed by an optional practical session on a logical approach to the clinical signs a patient with abdominal
discussions. This will enable you to practise your reading technique and normal variations on 2D echo, as well as changes seen with common Wednesday 3rd June at the RVC (limited to 20 participants). Please see disorders may present with and clin path interpretation challenges. The
and to share your experiences while enhancing your skills in assessing diseases. This forms the backbone of all echocardiography. This is a two- our website for further details. role of abdominal radiology vs abdominal ultrasound and other imaging
radiographs. day course split by 4 weeks allowing some time to practise in between! Course details modalities such as CT will be discussed – is there one modality that
Course details This course will provide you with the means to make clinical decisions in is always best? And then finally, the principles of surgical procedures
cardiac patients that are very challenging without echocardiography. Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 26 online involving the gut, liver and pancreas will be reviewed.
Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42 Course length: 5 weeks Course fee: £669
Course length: 6 weeks Course fee: £729 Course details Course details
Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 16 Tutor Course type: Webinar Plus CPD hours: Up to 16
Tutor Course length: 2 days Course fee: £999 Pete Mantis DVM DipECVDI PhD FHEA FRCVS, Head of Diagnostic Course length: 4 weeks Course fee: £429
Pete Mantis DVM DipECVDI PhD FHEA FRCVS, Head of Diagnostic Relevant to CertAVP module(s): C-VC.2 Imaging, Dick White Referrals, Honorary Associate Professor of
Imaging, Dick White Referrals, Honorary Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Nottingham University Relevant to CertAVP module(s): B-SAP.1 and C-SAM.9
Diagnostic Imaging, Nottingham University Tutors Tutors
David Connolly BSc BVetMed PhD CertSAM CertVC DipECVIM-CA Cathy Beck BVSc DipVetClinStud MVS GCUT FANZCVS (Radiology),
MRCVS, Professor in Veterinary Cardiology, RVC Consultant Radiologist, VetCT
Virginia Luis Fuentes VetMB PhD CertVR DVC DipACVIM Jill Maddison BVSc DipVetClinStud PhD FACVSc SFHEA MRCVS,
DipECVIM-CA MRCVS, Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, RVC Professor of General Practice, RVC
Proudly supported by IMV Rhiannon Strickland BVetMed MVetMed PGCertVetEd DipECVS FHEA
MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery, RVC

Small animal VCT online: Technology, Basic small animal abdominal ultrasound Practical abdominal ultrasound Practical POCUS: Fundamentals of
thorax, abdomen and vascular Wednesday 18th or Thursday 19th March scanning days Point-of-care Ultrasound
applications Wednesday 29th April or Thursday 30th April Tuesday 9th June
Do you want to learn how to perform an abdominal ultrasound exam in
Monday 26th January to Sunday 22nd March small animals? Are you looking to improve your scanning technique? Are You have been to courses, listened to lectures, watched videos and tried Are you keen to use or start using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
(one week break w/c 16th February) you not sure how to get the best out of your ultrasound unit? on your own. Now enhance your learning and practise doing a basic in managing your emergency patients? Do you use POCUS but lack
This course is an entry level introduction to diagnostic abdominal abdominal ultrasound examination with direct help to hand. confidence in your practical skills? Do you want to get hands-on practice
Are you using or planning to use computed tomography (CT) ultrasound in small animals and is a mix of online lectures followed by a Many veterinarians are keen to develop their knowledge and skills in of POCUS with leading teachers in the field?
in your practice? practical day. The course will help to develop your scanning techniques abdominal ultrasonography as it is such a useful diagnostic tool in general This course will include online lectures and 4-hour hands-on practical
This online course will help you to understand CT technology and its and routines. It will guide you through a structured approach to ultrasound practice. These abdominal practical scanning days are for veterinary developed and delivered by leaders in the field of veterinary POCUS.
examination of the abdomen, help you to utilise your ultrasound unit to
diagnostic utilisation in thoracic and abdominal imaging, including surgeons with limited ultrasound experience or simply veterinarians that Through practical, supervised hands-on training using live dogs, everyone
abdominal and thoracic CT angiography. It will equip you with the optimise image quality and allow you to recognise artefacts that may be would like to fine-tune their basic abdominal ultrasound skills. will have the opportunity to learn and practice all of the common veterinary
encountered.
knowledge to successfully integrate CT in your small animal veterinary Participants will be expected to have attended an introductory/ POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space,
practice – onsite or offsite. A review of practically applicable CT The online material must be viewed prior to attending the practical beginners CPD course (from any suitable CPD provider, not just the lung, and heart. Phantoms training models will be used to demonstrate
technology used in small animals will lay the foundation for understanding session. RVC) previously where the basics of ultrasound theory were discussed and practice ultrasound guided vascular access.
the information displayed on CT images and help to optimise image Course details and techniques demonstrated or have some practise in performing
acquisition for practitioners who have a CT unit onsite. abdominal ultrasound examinations. Course details
Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 13 Course type: Webinars and onsite CPD hours: 9
Course details Course length: 1 day onsite and Course fee: £999 Course details
Course type: e-CPD CPD hours: Up to 42 5 hours online Course type: Onsite CPD hours: 8 Course length: 4 hours onsite and Course fee: £649
5 hours online
Course length: 7 weeks (dates Course fee: £779 Course length: 1 day Course fee: £499
include a one-week break) Tutors Tutors
Helen Dirrig BVetMed MVetMed DipACVR DipECVDI PGCertVetEd Tutors
Tutor FHEA MRCVS, Lecturer in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, RVC Francisco Llabres-Diaz DVR DipECVDI PGCertVetEd MRCVS, Soren Boysen DVM DipACVECC, Professor of Veterinary Emergency
and Critical Care, University of Calgary
Randi Drees Dr.med.vet PhD DipACVR (Radiology, Radiation Oncology) Francisco Llabres-Diaz DVR DipECVDI PGCertVetEd MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, RVC Laura Cole BA VetMB PGCertVetEd CertAVP(ECC) DipACVECC
DipECVDI (add RadOncol) PGCertAP MRCVS, EBVS® European Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, RVC Cesar Llanos Ldo Vet MVetMed DipECVDI CertAVP MRCVS, DipECVECC MRCVS, Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, Cesar Llanos Ldo Vet MVetMed DipECVDI CertAVP MRCVS, Lecturer in Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging, RVC
Consultant Radiologist Lecturer in Small Animal Diagnostic Imaging, RVC Proudly supported by IMV Simon Cook BVSc MVetMed DipACVECC DipECVECC FHEA MRCVS,
Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC
Proudly supported by IMV Erica Tinson BSc BVSc MVS DipACVECC FHEA MRCVS,
Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care, RVC