This 2-day, hands-on workshop is designed for veterinarians who wish to expand their surgical skillset and confidently incorporate a wider range of soft tissue and orthopedic procedures into their clinical practice. The course emphasizes clinically relevant anatomy, step-by-step technique instruction, and practical tips to improve surgical efficiency and outcomes. Each procedure will be introduced through lectures that integrate case-based videos, followed by extensive laboratory time to allow participants to practice techniques under instructor guidance.

“When something is visualised, the truth of its occurrence or existence can no longer be doubted - Seeing is Believing”! This proverb has particular meaning when it comes point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS); diagnostic confidence increases in 89.2% of patients when general practitioners add bedside POCUS to patient evaluation! Recent surveys suggest 50-80% of veterinary clinics have an ultrasound machine. Unfortunately, despite POCUS revolutionising all facets of veterinary medicine, many ultrasound machines are underutilised in general small animal practice. This should not be the case! By asking clinically relevant, often binary yes/no questions, veterinary POCUS can be rapidly and efficiently learned and applied by anyone in almost any setting! So, dust off that ultrasound machine, go beyond looking for the urinary bladder to get a urine sample, and start using ultrasound to make a difference in in the daily assessment and management of your patients! Through practical, hands-on training using live dogs, participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice all of the common veterinary POCUS techniques currently used to assess the abdomen, pleural space, lung, and heart. Phantoms training models will also be used to demonstrate and practice ultrasound guided vascular access. This lab will focus on techniques developed by the instructors, designed to increase veterinary POCUS diagnostic accuracy, and help facilitate easier application into everyday veterinary practice. These are all techniques that can be performed by any practitioner and should be used in everyday practice! We will also briefly review basic ultrasound machine function and probe manipulations. As part of this workshop, an online learning component is required as a prerequisite to the lab. Participants must complete online lectures provided by Calgary, or complete the CVE’s VPOCUS: Practical Applications for GPs Distance Education course.

This course is designed to give participants a more advanced understanding of small animal echocardiography. Major topics include in-depth cardiac anatomy and physiology, techniques for achieving high-quality results, case presentations of important diseases and hands-on scanning of normal dogs. Skills taught in these hands-on sessions include pulse wave Doppler, continuous wave Doppler, colour flow Doppler, special measurements and calculations and applying the Bernoulli equation to clinical cases. Requirements: This workshop is only available to individuals who have completed the Basic Echocardiography Workshop, or who can provide evidence of equivalent experience.

This course is designed to give participants a more advanced understanding of small animal echocardiography. Major topics include in-depth cardiac anatomy and physiology, techniques for achieving high-quality results, case presentations of important diseases and hands-on scanning of normal dogs. Skills taught in these hands-on sessions include pulse wave Doppler, continuous wave Doppler, colour flow Doppler, special measurements and calculations and applying the Bernoulli equation to clinical cases. Requirements: This workshop is only available to individuals who have completed the Basic Echocardiography Workshop, or who can provide evidence of equivalent experience.

Ultrasonography is a complex discipline to master. How do you use vasculature as a “road map”? How do you reliably find the pancreas and adrenal glands? How do you get the opportunity to image the “normal” to identify the “abnormal”?

Real Cases. Multiple Perspectives. Better Decisions. Join us in Sydney for a truly integrated approach to diagnostic imaging. Following exceptional feedback from our Case-based Diagnostic Imaging Conference in Melbourne in 2025, our expert panel returns to once again unpack real-world internal medicine, emergency and critical care, and musculoskeletal cases, all anchored by a thorough, systematic approach to diagnostic imaging. Led by Dr Jane Day, Dr Mark Glyde, Dr Mary Thompson and Dr Claire Sharp, this conference brings together multiple specialist perspectives to explore how imaging findings influence diagnosis, treatment decisions and patient outcomes.