VetSkills CPD Courses

35 XLVets Small Animal Graduate Programme Duration: Eight days. CPD hours: 56 hours. For whom? Graduates who have qualified within the last two years and are working in an XLVets Practice. This programme is also eligible for any recently qualified graduate (up to three years qualified) who may have moved species area or solely into farm practice. The eight day course includes exciting and innovative core modules designed to achieve excellence in practice, they are compulsory to attend, to help you build a strong and collaborative peer network on the first day of the programme and throughout your career. Module one: Survival Skills Duration: Two days Included: Survival skills, Managing yourself and in practice, Finance and Time management. The first module will get graduates to look at the non- clinical skills vital to them for a happy and successful career. They will look at how to manage themselves by looking at understanding their own expectations as well as those around you, and the challenges and solutions to the work-life balance issue. Managing in practice, how to build relationships in order to give and receive feedback constructively, and address and manage conflict. Finance, understanding how finance works in their practice, the basics of a profit and loss account, pricing principles and the perils of discounting. And finally, time management, how to organise and plan their time to allow greater productivity, enhancing their relationships with clients and colleagues, reducing stress and achieving their own personal goals. Module two: Emergency Management and Euthanasia Duration: Two days Included: How to keep the animal alive and Other common emergencies. For this clinically focused module, graduates will focus on developing their clinical decision making skills in order to save lives, protect the animal from harm and develop a toolkit to use in out of hours situations. Graduates will look at how to keep the animal alive, other common emergencies such as seizures, trauma, caesarean and euthanasia and thriving in practice. Module three: Clinical Transition into Practice Duration: Two days Included: Practical pharmacology, Graduates in action and Dermatology. Module three continues with graduates spending half a day looking at best practice dispensing and pharmacy, including the legal aspects of dispensing, controlled drugs and the use of antibiotics. The second half of the day will consist of graduates taking part in an interactive session with the trainer discussing the nose-to-tail examination and common differential diagnoses, the repeat offender, imaging and surgical tips. For the final day of this module, graduates will take a practical approach in looking at dermatology, aiming to give them confidence when dealing with skin cases in practice. Module four: Feline Medicine and Lameness Duration: Two days Included: Feline medicine and Lameness. The final module looks at Feline medicine; how to manage the diabetic cat, diet, chronic renal disease and diagnostic work up, giving graduates the confidence to take on these cases in practice. The lameness side to this module is all about building confidence in localising the source of pain, building an appropriate list of differential diagnoses and making the most of radiography and spotting the subtle signs.