Vet Education

Severe illness in dogs and cats can result from many disease conditions, including trauma, inflammatory diseases such as pancreatitis, severe infection, immune-mediated disease to name just a few. This 4-week course will focus on the end-result of these severe illnesses – the development of systemic inflammation, and the organ dysfunction and failure that frequently transpires.

Along the way, we will uncover specific management strategies used to reduce the severity of systemic inflammation, as well as develop specific plans to manage the complications of severe illness when they occur. You will also receive practice protocols, useful algorithms for disease management, and great summaries of the enormous amount of literature published on this topic as well!

The diagnosis and management of dogs and cats with cancer has progressed significantly over recent years – with improved diagnostic modalities including CT and MRI, as well as improved treatment modalities including radiation therapy and novel chemotherapy protocols leading to improved patient tolerance to treatments. This 3-week course will explore the exciting world of nursing the patient with cancer, using real cases, live tutorials, engaging interaction, high quality practice resources, and our renowned comprehensive course book – sent right to your door!

Covering everything from oestrus, mating and pregnancy, through to the all-important dystocia management, caesarean, and neonatal care, this course is full of practical information for every nurse! We will cover cytology of the vagina, mastitis, nutrition, eclampsia, pyometra and more!

Patients with envenomation or intoxication are some of the most exciting patients seen in practice – but they can also be scary too! We will guide you through the essentials of first aid advice, and preparing your clinic for the patient arrival. Learn the essential steps to stabilizing your venom and toxin patients, the diagnostic tests you and your vets will need, and how to interpret them, proper patient toxin decontamination, proper administration of antivenin and more – including helpful checklists, tables and charts to make your “venom and toxin” patient treatment fun and rewarding!

Cardiac disease is relatively common in small animal veterinary patients. Symptoms of cardiac disease can range from mild lethargy and exercise intolerance, requiring a stable case work-up, to a full-on emergency requiring immediate intervention in order to save a patient's life. This course will cover what heart disease is - including the major causes of heart disease in dogs and cats, and the pathophysiology behind the symptoms of cardiac disease. We'll follow this with the ECG - from taking the tracing, to diagnosing abnormal rhythms; diagnostic ultrasound and radiography of the cardiac patient. Finally, we'll look at the treatment of the patient with heart failure - from the emergency setting, to the drugs used to treat heart disease in the long-term - including monitoring requirements, client advice and much more.

The field of veterinary emergency and critical care is diverse, encompassing the areas of diagnostic imaging, medicine, surgery, clinical pathology, and anaesthesia to provide both urgent and critical care to seriously ill patients.

The ANZCVSc examination emphasis is placed on a logical, problem-based approach to cases in order to accurately diagnose and manage the disease processes, along with the requirement to posses a detailed knowledge of pathophysiology and treatment of a wide range of emergency and critical care disease conditions.

This course presents a study guide for candidates wishing to sit examinations for Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists.

Welcome to the Vet Education study program for veterinarians in Small Animal Surgery! The aim of this program is to assist you in the study towards examinations for Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Medicine in Small Animal Surgery.

The course is divided into 20 sections, corresponding to organ systems, and provides a wise selection of literature reviews, clinical studies and isolated case reports as study documents, along with a selection of webinar recordings on medicine topics pertinent to your study. 

In May and June of each year, a live tutorial on examination technique will be presented - the May tutorial aiming to guide your technique in the written examination, and the June tutorial to help you cope with the oral examination.

Throughout the course, we will place links to allow you to log into the live Vet Education Webinar Series lectures as well.

Finally, along with examples of past examination papers, you will have access to model answer questions throughout various topics, to help guide your study for the examinations.

This course contains recorded lectures, lecture notes, journal articles and assessment tools designed to provide the user with an introduction to the field of veterinary emergency and critical care.