Continuing Education

Do you know what you are seeing when you are scanning? Can you follow blood vessels as a roadmap to the abdomen? Can you find the adrenal glands and pancreas? Do you have enough time to practise your scanning on normal dogs as well as clinical patients? If you are time poor but need an intensive boost to help you gain more confidence with your imaging, here’s your chance to make it happen! Let Dr Karon Hoffmann work with you in an intensive, immersive practical 4-day course on Diagnostic Ultrasound, where you will spend a dedicated amount of time learning how to perform scans from the right foundations and improve your technique under the focussed guidance of these expert instructors. Karon is known Australia-wide as the ‘go to’ person for ultrasound as well as being a European Boarded Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. She will instruct and give you personal and immediate feedback on your scanning, and teach you tips and tricks that will make a huge difference when you get back to your practice. What’s even better is that Karon will help you develop a sense of achievement when you take your ultrasound skills to the next level. Those confounding cases won’t seem so scary and you’ll be excited at the prospect of being able to perform ultrasound examinations on all your cases. Better still, you’ll discover that you want to learn more, practise more and get even better as your confidence builds.

Improve your success when managing diabetes in dogs and cats. 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.

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.

Small animal soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery. Have you ever: Opened an abdomen expecting one thing only to find something else? Had that frustrating lameness case, where you couldn’t decide if it was neurological or orthopaedic, or where the lameness came from? Wondered why fracture repairs looked so different at present, compared to just 10 years ago? Well, if you have, then this 4-day conference has been designed for you! The theme for Day 1 is So, I wasn’t expecting that! and we will explore conditions unexpectedly encountered during exploratory laparotomy, such as liver and gall bladder pathology, gastrointestinal perforation and abdominal trauma. Day 2 will focus on airway surgery and wound management with many tips and tricks from the experts. Day 3 will comprehensively cover the approach to challenging forelimb, hindlimb and neurological causes of lameness, with many case examples and a state of the art update on a number of conditions including wobbler disease and joint replacements. Day 4, the final day, will explore the recent changes in fracture management, including a review of locking plates and mini implants and how to best use them in a clinical setting. Fractures in toy breeds and minimally invasive osteosynthesis will be discussed with several case examples to demonstrate the most recent recommendations in fracture repair. This great line up of local and international speakers will present a course designed for general practitioners who want to improve their surgical and diagnostic capabilities, with ample time for panel discussion and questions. Held on the beautiful Gold Coast and covering both soft tissue and orthopaedic surgery, this is the surgical conference for 2018 and we hope to see you all there.