Continuing Education

Improve your skills in treating bone fractures. Open reduction and internal fixation of fractures using bone plates and screws is a common and effective modality of treatment for fracture management in small animal practice. This workshop is designed to allow participants to use and appreciate the instruments employed to correctly and effectively apply bone plates and screws for simple fracture fixation in long bones. Principles of bone plating and screw application will be revised over a series of lectures with case studies used to highlight these principles. This will be followed with a practical session where participants will practice surgical approaches to the femur, tibia, humerus, and radius on a cadaver. Simple fractures will be created and all participants will have the opportunity to apply a compression and a neutralisation plate.

Ultrasound is an interactive and extremely useful diagnostic imaging modality in clinical practice. It is highly operator dependent, so some experience and knowledge is the key to driving the ultrasound probe with more confidence and being able to interpret the findings. This course is designed to give you the essential knowledge on how to optimize image quality, how to find abdominal structures such as the pancreas and adrenal gland, and how to approach some common challenges faced in clinical practice such as free abdominal fluid, nodular disease and ileus. A case based approach will be used to explore the common diseases associated with these problems and how to diagnose them. 

Specifically designed for the busy practitioner, this intensive and practical 1-day seminar aims to rapidly refresh and update veterinarians on the optimal management of diabetes in dogs and cats. Linda Fleeman is an internationally recognised leader in companion animal diabetes mellitus and the head of Animal Diabetes Australia. She is extensively published and has a well-deserved reputation as an excellent teacher dedicated to promoting compassionate and tailored personalised care for diabetic patients. Join in to learn about protocols that are easy to follow and as well as improved treatment and monitoring tools such as insulin dosing pens and flash glucose monitors. Linda will also answer the most frequently asked questions from veterinarians on the management of diabetes and explain how to give sound advice on the most appropriate dietary options. This seminar will provide practical guidelines and reliable information that will help you achieve sweet success for your diabetic patients.

Develop a greater understanding of the benefits of abdominal radiography and improve your imaging evaluation of common abdominal diseases. This course focuses on a radiographic approach to abdominal imaging but will supplement radiographic imaging with other imaging modalities. The usefulness of ultrasonography will be explored for imaging abdominal viscera and, where relevant, the application of other modalities such as computer tomography (CT) will be discussed and demonstrated. While this is not primarily an ultrasound course, the comparative usefulness of radiography and ultrasound will be included wherever possible. You can expect to further your knowledge of ultrasound and its indications. You will not be required to have an ultrasound machine in your practice; for those that do, however, there will be some practical sonographic tasks.