Ophthalmic surgery is often put in the too hard basket and referred on to specialists. This course is designed to give you a better understanding of the principles and practicalities of performing eye surgery with the aim of expanding the range of procedures you can confidently offer your clients. The course will feature a number of video procedures to help guide your learning. Veterinary nurses with a special interest in the topic are welcome to enrol in this course. Please be aware that the course is designed for qualified veterinarians and you should consider this in light of your knowledge and experience before you register.

This course focuses on practical wound management in busy small animal clinics. We will discuss wound management from acute traumatic to chronic non-healing and multidrug resistant infections. Our focus will not be on complex surgical skin grafts but on methods that can be performed by any vet in practice, without the use of restricted antimicrobials. Wound cleaning, multi-drug resistant wound infections and managing healing without skin grafts will be covered, and case studies will be used to demonstrate the differences between wound healing and management in dogs and cats.

Many dermatoses in dogs and cats are recurrent, and effective management can be difficult and provide great frustration to both owners and veterinarians. This course is designed to cover a broad range of the most common dermatological problems faced in general practice in both dogs and cats and reinforce a practical, logical, problem orientated approach to skin disease.

Exotics emergencies require special skills and knowledge. Whether you’re working in an emergency clinic or general practice this course will develop the skills and confidence you need to deal with these often-challenging presentations. The aim of this course is to outline fundamental skills and understandings with which every clinician treating exotics should be familiar, with a focus on species commonly and legally kept in Australia including birds, small mammals and reptiles. The course will cover triage and basic supportive care as well as the hospitalisation needs of exotic patients.

Have you ever had a trauma patient arrive, and all you can think of is ‘where do I start?’ This course is designed for emergency veterinarians as well as general practitioners around how to deal with traumatic emergencies.