• Appreciate the different applications of dexmedetomidine in practice including off label combinations and doses, its use in CRIs and as a new treatment for noise anxiety.
  
• Be familiar with the national controlled drug legislation relating to ketamine and the recent changes.
  
• Understand the current controversies concerning the international scheduling of ketamine.
  
• Understand how to recognise pain in cats.
• Become familiar with pain scoring systems.

   Speaker: Nicola Grint (BVSc PhD CertVA DVA DiplECVAA MRCVS)      
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st December 2016

• Understand the stages of heart disease and be able to define the pre-clinical stage of disease.
• Describe the general echocardiographic features of common heart diseases.
• understand the recent scientific evidence base for the treatment of common canine and feline heart diseases, and when to start treatment. 
• Understand the prevalence of heart disease in cats and be able to define a rational method for identifying which heart murmurs in cats are most important.
• Describe the novel minimally invasive procedures that can be carried out to help such patients with heart disease, and consider how to identify the best cases for referral for such treatments.

   Speaker: Kieran Borgeat (BVSc CertVC DipACVIM DipECVIM-CA MRCVS)
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st January 2017

• Autoimmune skin diseases
  
• Immuno suppression therapy
• Nodular skin disease

   Speaker: David Shearer (BVetMed CertSAD PhD MRCVS)      
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st July 2016

• Ferret endocrine disease
  
• Rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease
• New licensed medications for exotics and the cascade

   Speaker: Richard Saunders (BVSc BSc CertZooMed DZooMed (Mammalian) MRCVS)             
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st June 2016

• Feline infectious peritonitis - what's new?
  
• Chronic kidney disease - diagnosis and treatment planning
• Diabetes Mellitus - whats best for cats? 

   Speaker: Martha Cannon (VetMB BA DSAM(Feline) MRCVS)     
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st June 2017

• How to diagnose and treat cruciate disease
• How to diagnose and treat elbow dysplasia
  
• The general principles and indications of external skeletal fixation

   Speaker: Hannes Bergmann (DrMedVet DipECVS MRCVS)
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st July 2017

• The latest diagnostic tests and procedures
  
• Creation of a differential diagnosis listing based on diagnostic tests and procedures
• Treatment protocols for selected conditions
• Case-based scenarios to help develop critical thinking and self-reflection  

   Speaker: Alex Gough
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st April 2017

• Successful treatment of GDV
  
• Performing an incisional gastropexy
• Rapid splenectomy - how do I do it?

   Speaker: Howard Seim (DVM Diplomate ACVS)      
   Duration: 3 hours
   Delivered: 1st November 2016