• Join Molly Varga BVetMed CertZooMed DZooMed (Mammalian) MRCVS for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to download
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points (and in case you miss a live session!)
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the live events or the recordings on your iPad!

Programme

What you’ll learn:

CORE- First contact- diet, vaccination, parasite control, neutering.
NEW THINKING- Updates on anaesthetic techniques, E.cuniculi- where are we now? An introduction to pain scoring- encouraging owners to be objective about their rabbits.

• How to construct a robust vaccination schedule for both indoor and outdoor rabbits
• How and when to neuter both male and female rabbits, and how to evaluate their pain levels afterwards
• The risks of both internal and external parasites, and when/if to treat them, and which products to safely use.

Living a Good Life- The Adult Rabbit

What you’ll learn:

CORE Preventive Heath care planning, adapting nutrition to life stage, common health issues caused by poor mobility (urine smudging, hock sores, failure to eat caecotrophs, obesity), diagnostic imaging in rabbits- radiography, dental radiography, computed tomography and ultrasonography.
NEW THINKING- updates on wound care, haemostasis, abscess treatment and dental interventions.

• How nutritional requirements alter with both age and neutering status, and how to adjust the diet to avoid obesity and nutritional deficiency
• How to evaluate common problems such as hock sores, and integrate this into formulating a treatment plan, based on a robust synthesis of environmental and diagnostic knowledge as to why an individual rabbit is not moving normally
• How to interpret thoracic, abdominal, dental radiographs, the fundamentals of CT interpretation and how to obtain useful ultrasonographic images in the rabbit

Twilight years- Managing the aging rabbit

What you’ll learn:

CORE Analgesia, diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis, diagnosis and management of renal dysfunction, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac dysfunction, managing a disabled rabbit in a welfare driven manner, what is palliative care? Quality of life assessments.
NEW THINKING- new treatment modalities for older diseases- renal and cardiac disease in particular.

• The importance of analgesia in many of our older patients – a recap on pain scoring will be added
• That aging is a series of diagnoses, which if made, and treated, can significantly imp[rove the welfare of many older rabbits
• Current thinking surrounding palliative care and quality of life assessments

The price includes all 3 sessions, notes and quiz – 8 hours of CPD

*No traffic jams, accommodation hassles, pet or childcare, rota clashes, locum fees ……….. just great CPD and a valuable ongoing resource.