Meeting Dates
( more information and booking below )
27/02/19 Small Animal Ultrasound - Esther Barrett
13/03/19 AGM
24/04/19 Feline Behaviour - Jon Bowen
15/05/19 Pancreatitis - Ed Hall
05/06/19 An Approach to the Sick Rabbit -Ian Sayers
15/06/19 Social event
17/06/19 Farm Animal Welfare - Dr Jim Reynolds
04/09/19 Neurology - Tom Cardy & Frances Taylor-Brown
16/10/19 Dermatology - Hilary O'Dair
20/11/19 Toxicology - Nick Carmichael
( more information and booking below )
27/02/19 Small Animal Ultrasound - Esther Barrett
13/03/19 AGM
24/04/19 Feline Behaviour - Jon Bowen
15/05/19 Pancreatitis - Ed Hall
05/06/19 An Approach to the Sick Rabbit -Ian Sayers
15/06/19 Social event
17/06/19 Farm Animal Welfare - Dr Jim Reynolds
04/09/19 Neurology - Tom Cardy & Frances Taylor-Brown
16/10/19 Dermatology - Hilary O'Dair
20/11/19 Toxicology - Nick Carmichael
Booking Events
Purchase your attendance at one of our events below.
Prices shown are for advance card payment. Booking and payment in the last seven days before the event incurs an additional £5 administration surcharge. Payment by cash or cheque on or after the event will be at the higher price (+£5).
We work hard to ensure prices are kept as low as possible and believe our cost of high quality and relevant CPD represents very good value. In order to help keep the costs down we ask that you book and pay well in advance.
When you book on-line you will automatically receive an invoice to your email address.
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Prices shown are for advance card payment. Booking and payment in the last seven days before the event incurs an additional £5 administration surcharge. Payment by cash or cheque on or after the event will be at the higher price (+£5).
We work hard to ensure prices are kept as low as possible and believe our cost of high quality and relevant CPD represents very good value. In order to help keep the costs down we ask that you book and pay well in advance.
When you book on-line you will automatically receive an invoice to your email address.
Click HERE to join in the WCVA.
AFAST and TFAST: using ultrasound to evaluate the emergency small animal patient - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 27th February 2019
Talk by Esther Barrett MA VetMB DVDI DipECVDI MRCVS. RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. Esther spent 6 years working in mixed first opinion practice in the UK, before taking up a residency in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. Having obtained the RCVS and European College Diplomas in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, she spent a further 2 years working in University referral practice, before setting up her own freelance veterinary imaging service. As well as loving the practical challenges of her day-to-day work, Esther also enjoys teaching and regularly provides small group CPD for veterinary surgeons throughout the UK.
Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST), was initially developed for the rapid and effective identification of free abdominal fluid in human trauma patients. The scope of FAST imaging has expanded beyond just trauma cases, with the ‘T’ now representing ‘trauma, triage and tracking’. Veterinary specific FAST protocols have been developed for the targeted evaluation of both abdominal (AFAST) and thoracic (TFAST) emergency small animal patients, and can rapidly add critical information to help decide appropriate patient management. FAST protocols require only a small portable ultrasound machine and basic ultrasonography skills, and are therefore ideal for quick evaluation in an emergency situation.
Held at Colliton Barton Training Centre.
Kindly sponsored by Vetsure Pet insurance.
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
AFAST and TFAST: using ultrasound to evaluate the emergency small animal patient - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 27th February 2019
Talk by Esther Barrett MA VetMB DVDI DipECVDI MRCVS. RCVS and European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. Esther spent 6 years working in mixed first opinion practice in the UK, before taking up a residency in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. Having obtained the RCVS and European College Diplomas in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, she spent a further 2 years working in University referral practice, before setting up her own freelance veterinary imaging service. As well as loving the practical challenges of her day-to-day work, Esther also enjoys teaching and regularly provides small group CPD for veterinary surgeons throughout the UK.
Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST), was initially developed for the rapid and effective identification of free abdominal fluid in human trauma patients. The scope of FAST imaging has expanded beyond just trauma cases, with the ‘T’ now representing ‘trauma, triage and tracking’. Veterinary specific FAST protocols have been developed for the targeted evaluation of both abdominal (AFAST) and thoracic (TFAST) emergency small animal patients, and can rapidly add critical information to help decide appropriate patient management. FAST protocols require only a small portable ultrasound machine and basic ultrasonography skills, and are therefore ideal for quick evaluation in an emergency situation.
Held at Colliton Barton Training Centre.
Kindly sponsored by Vetsure Pet insurance.
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
AGM & APHA Brucellosis Lecture - FREE OF CHARGE
13th March 2019
7.00pm - Hot meal served
7.30pm - AGM - all welcome to attend
8pm - Brucellosis lecture by Sam Holland (Veterinary Advisor - APHA), Dr John McGiven (Brucellosis Disease Consultant, APHA) & Rachael Collins (Veterinary Investigation Officer - APHA) TBC.
9.30pm Finish
Held at Best Western Tiverton Hotel
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
AGM & Small Animal Lectures - FREE OF CHARGE
13th March 2019
7.00pm - Hot meal served
7.30pm - AGM - all welcome to attend
8pm - Rabies bat surveillance at APHA - a focus on the bat surveillance the APHA undertakes in the UK. This has been an extremely unusual year with the number of rabies positive bats that have been detected. Also, information on the range of work the APHA do including the PETS serological assay by Levon Stephan BVM&S BSc MRCVS.
Followed by....
Small Animal OV Validation by Sue Hay BVMS CertClEd MRCVS Head of Official Veterinarian (OV) Training
9.30pm Finish
Held at Best Western Tiverton Hotel
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Feline Behaviour - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 24th April 2019
Talk by Jon Bowen BVetMed DipAS(CABC) MRCVS. Honorary Lecturer in Small Animal Behaviour. Jon is a graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, where he is now an honorary lecturer and head of the behavioural medicine referral service. Apart from his clinical work, Jon has contributed to a number of books on behavioural medicine, has recently published papers on the human-animal bond, relinquishment and behavioural development, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Feline Behaviour - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 24th April 2019
Talk by Jon Bowen BVetMed DipAS(CABC) MRCVS. Honorary Lecturer in Small Animal Behaviour. Jon is a graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, where he is now an honorary lecturer and head of the behavioural medicine referral service. Apart from his clinical work, Jon has contributed to a number of books on behavioural medicine, has recently published papers on the human-animal bond, relinquishment and behavioural development, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Pancreatitis - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 15th May 2019
Talk by Prof Edward Hall MA VetMB PhD DipECVIM-CA MRCVS. Ed Hall is Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Bristol Veterinary School, where he is also Head of Comparative & Clinical Research. He has clinical and research interests in small animal gastroenterology.
A Cambridge graduate, he trained in Philadelphia and Liverpool, and is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a Past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
He co-edited both editions of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Gastroenterology, and wrote the chapter on Diseases of the Small Intestine in Ettinger & Feldman’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the definitive internal medicine textbook.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Pancreatitis - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 15th May 2019
Talk by Prof Edward Hall MA VetMB PhD DipECVIM-CA MRCVS. Ed Hall is Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the University of Bristol Veterinary School, where he is also Head of Comparative & Clinical Research. He has clinical and research interests in small animal gastroenterology.
A Cambridge graduate, he trained in Philadelphia and Liverpool, and is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. He is a Past President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
He co-edited both editions of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Gastroenterology, and wrote the chapter on Diseases of the Small Intestine in Ettinger & Feldman’s Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, the definitive internal medicine textbook.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
An Approach To The Sick Rabbit - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 5th June 2019
Talk by Ian Sayers BVSc CertZooMed MRCVS. RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Zoological Medicine. Ian graduated from Liverpool University in 1992 and has had an exciting and varied career since. Ian taught at the University of Bristol Veterinary School for nine years, and was an integral part of the Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund Rabbit Referral Clinic, the UK’s first Rabbit Only Referral Service. He has lectured nationally and internationally, on both exotic and small animal topics and has contributed to various publications, on all aspects of ‘exotic’ medicine and surgery.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
An Approach To The Sick Rabbit - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 5th June 2019
Talk by Ian Sayers BVSc CertZooMed MRCVS. RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Zoological Medicine. Ian graduated from Liverpool University in 1992 and has had an exciting and varied career since. Ian taught at the University of Bristol Veterinary School for nine years, and was an integral part of the Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund Rabbit Referral Clinic, the UK’s first Rabbit Only Referral Service. He has lectured nationally and internationally, on both exotic and small animal topics and has contributed to various publications, on all aspects of ‘exotic’ medicine and surgery.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Practical Neurology - for vets < 8 years qualified - BOOKING NOT YET OPEN
Date: 4th September 2019
Talk by Tom Cardy BSc BVetMed (Hons) MVetMed PhD DipECVN MRCVS & Frances Taylor-Brown BSc(Hons) BVetMed(Hons) MVetMed DipECVN MRCVS. Tom has a PhD in Pharmacology from Cambridge University and prior to completing his veterinary training worked in the pharmaceutical industry; He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in 2011 and, after spending some time in general practice and an internship at the RVC, completed his specialist training in Neurology & Neurosurgery in 2016. Tom subsequently spent two years as a Lecturer in Neurology & Neurosurgery at the Royal Veterinary College before joining Cave Veterinary Specialists in 2018.
Fran graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2011 and stayed on to complete a one year small animal rotating internship. After a period working in small animal practice in Hertfordshire she completed a Neurology and Neurosurgery Clinical Training Scholarship at the Royal Veterinary College, achieving the European Diploma in Veterinary Neurology in 2017. Fran subsequently worked at the Queen's Veterinary Hospital, University of Cambridge as a Clinical Neurologist before joining the team at Cave Veterinary Specialists in June 2018.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Practical Neurology - for vets 8 years qualified & over - BOOKING NOT YET OPEN
Date: 4th September 2019
Talk by Tom Cardy BSc BVetMed (Hons) MVetMed PhD DipECVN MRCVS & Frances Taylor-Brown BSc(Hons) BVetMed(Hons) MVetMed DipECVN MRCVS. Tom has a PhD in Pharmacology from Cambridge University and prior to completing his veterinary training worked in the pharmaceutical industry; He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in 2011 and, after spending some time in general practice and an internship at the RVC, completed his specialist training in Neurology & Neurosurgery in 2016. Tom subsequently spent two years as a Lecturer in Neurology & Neurosurgery at the Royal Veterinary College before joining Cave Veterinary Specialists in 2018.
Fran graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2011 and stayed on to complete a one year small animal rotating internship. After a period working in small animal practice in Hertfordshire she completed a Neurology and Neurosurgery Clinical Training Scholarship at the Royal Veterinary College, achieving the European Diploma in Veterinary Neurology in 2017. Fran subsequently worked at the Queen's Veterinary Hospital, University of Cambridge as a Clinical Neurologist before joining the team at Cave Veterinary Specialists in June 2018.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Managing Otitis - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 16th October 2019
Talk by Hilary O'Dair BVetMed CertSAD CertSAM MRCVS.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Managing Otitis - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 16th October 2019
Talk by Hilary O'Dair BVetMed CertSAD CertSAM MRCVS.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Toxicology - for vets < 8 years qualified
Date: 20th November 2019
Talk by Nick Carmichael BSc VetSci Hons, BVM&S, DVCS, FRCPath, Dip. ECVCP MRCVS RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology. Having graduated from The University of Edinburgh with both a veterinary degree and an Honours degree in veterinary pathology, Nick spent 10 years working in first and second opinion small animal practice before returning to his first love of pathology.He has worked as a clinical pathologist for over 20 years becoming Head of Clinical Pathology at IDEXX Laboratories before establishing CTDS Laboratories along with Dr Andy Torrance in 2004. Nick is currently Veterinary Director for CTDS Laboratories.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
Toxicology - for vets 8 years qualified & over
Date: 20th November 2019
Talk by Nick Carmichael BSc VetSci Hons, BVM&S, DVCS, FRCPath, Dip. ECVCP MRCVS RCVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Clinical Pathology. Having graduated from The University of Edinburgh with both a veterinary degree and an Honours degree in veterinary pathology, Nick spent 10 years working in first and second opinion small animal practice before returning to his first love of pathology.He has worked as a clinical pathologist for over 20 years becoming Head of Clinical Pathology at IDEXX Laboratories before establishing CTDS Laboratories along with Dr Andy Torrance in 2004. Nick is currently Veterinary Director for CTDS Laboratories.
Held at TBC.
Full details to follow
A hot meal will be served prior to the start of the talk at 7.15pm prompt with the talk commencing at 7.45pm.
**Please enter delegate name(s) and any dietary requirements in the note to seller box when booking, we will be unable to cater for dietary requirements unless we know in advance**
