Course summary
This course provides advanced training in the foundational clinical skills required for high quality small animal veterinary general practice. The focus will be on practical and applied aspects of disease treatment. Therapeutic skills covered include core principles of medicine and surgery, pharmacology, and nutrition, relevant to the small animal veterinary practitioner with case-based treatment plans emphasised along with core surgical principles.
Learning outcomes
- Integrate and apply core principles of medicine and surgery to your clinical caseload to demonstrate the provision of quality care.
- 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 therapeutic and nutrition choices for certain case scenarios and utilise this knowledge in the management of day-to-day caseloads.
Module topics
- Small animal medicine, including
- Accessing reliable and up-to-date internal medicine resources
- Chronic hepatitis
- Immunology and immune-mediated disease
- Identifying cases that may benefit from referral
- Small animal surgery, including
- Performing a systematic exploratory laparotomy
- Intestinal resection and anastomosis
- Splenectomy
- Skin tumour resection
- Differentiating spinal disorders
- Differentiating hindlimb lameness
- Clinical therapeutics, including
- Pharmacology and drug selection
- Adverse drug reactions
- Effect of signalment on drug selection
- Effect of disease on drug selection
- Selecting appropriate antimicrobials
- Interpreting C+S results
- Nutritional assessment and management of common medical conditions
Course pricing
- AVA member: $1,320.00
- Non-AVA member: $1,980.00
Course facilitators
- Dr Caitlin Mack
- Dr Ben Mielke