Overview
Are you passionate about veterinary care and ready to take your skills to the next level? Join our leading edge online course designed for aspiring veterinary general practitioners to master clinical skills. Complete this course with a cohort of like-minded professionals through a combination of self-paced study and scheduled facilitator led interactive sessions (via Zoom).
Price levels
| 14 Jan 2025 to 17 Nov 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Full Member | $4,750.00 |
| New Graduate | $4,750.00 |
| Non-Member | $5,940.00 |
| Small Animal - Full Member | $3,960.00 |
| Small Animal - New Graduate | $3,960.00 |
Who should attend
Veterinarians: 1. Seeking to advance their general practice training and skills 2. Aiming to enhance their professional credentials and job prospects. 3. Who are committed to personal growth and career sustainability in the profession. This course may be studied as a stand-alone CPD offering, or contribute toward professional accreditation as part of the AVA Chartered Veterinary Practitioner (terms and conditions apply)
Learning outcome
What you'll learn
- Clinical reasoning: Develop critical thinking abilities crucial for accurate diagnoses and treatment plans.
- Clinical pathology: Master the interpretation of lab results to guide clinical decisions.
- Clinical nutrition: Understand the importance of diet in animal health and disease prevention.
- Principles of surgery: Gain insights into surgical techniques and post-operative care
- Priniciples of anaesthesia: Learn safe administration and monitoring of anaesthesia.
- Diagnostic imaging: Interpret x-rays and other imaging modalities with confidence.
- Emergency medicine: Acquire skills to handle urgent veterinary cases effectively.
- Critical care: Learn intenstive care principles to stabilise and manage critcially ill patients.
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate a logical problem-based approach to clinical reasoning in the development of an appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic and monitoring plan for common and more complex medical, surgical, and emergency presentations.
- Identify cases that would benefit from or require care beyond that offered at the veterinarian's hospital and collate appropriate documentation for referral.
- Select and explain the theory behind appropriate diagnostic and procedural techniques for certain case scenarios and utilise this knowledge in management of day-to-day caseloads.
- Integrate and apply core principles of medicine, surgery and emergencyc are to your clinical caseload to demonstrate the provision of quality care.
Further details
Teacher details:
Course coordinator:
Dr Caitlin Mack
Course teachers:
A/Prof Natalie Courtman
Dr Matt Kopke
Dr Ryan Leong
Dr Joanne Rainger
Dr Katie Nash
Dr Caitlin Mack