New Graduate Radiology

New Graduate Radiology

Acquiring and interpreting radiographs can be daunting as a new graduate veterinary surgeon in small animal practice. Relevant experience is inevitably limited at this stage and cases rarely appear exactly like those in the textbooks.

This course is designed to help build your ability and confidence in recognising whether a radiograph is technically diagnostic, normal anatomical variations that you will encounter and common examples of pathology. Notes and recorded short lectures provide you with background knowledge, practical tips and examples. This is then complemented by a full day of practical sessions at the training centre where you will have the opportunity to review and discuss radiographic cases and to ask any questions or discuss specific challenges that you may have encountered in practice when performing radiography or interpreting radiographs.

Overall, this course aims to increase your confidence and minimise the self-doubt that you may experience when you need to make clinical decisions based on information provided by radiographs. Areas covered include radiology of the thorax, abdomen and appendicular skeleton, with cases provided in advance to review and then discuss on the practical day.

What you will learn :-

• How to identify lung patterns on a thoracic radiograph
• Normal and abnormal appearances of the pleural space and mediastinum
• Radiographic assessment of the acute abdomen – what to look for and the limitations of radiography
• Radiographic assessment of bone, including common orthopaedic conditions in both juvenile and mature animals
• Complete your learning and get your CPD Certificate for 15 Hours of CPD.

Course Tutor : Kate Bradley M.A., VetMB, Ph.D.(Bristol), DVR, DipECVDI European Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging

You’ll need to complete the online learning before the attendance session. This will introduce core principles, terminology and common radiographic patterns, allowing you to get the most from the practical case-based discussions on the day. We’ve found this format helps delegates feel better prepared and more confident when reviewing and interpreting radiographs in real clinical scenarios. Access details for your online resources will be emailed to you several weeks before the course.

Course Feedback:

“Really, really good, very broad range of interesting and common cases, good to see lots of cases repeatedly over short time frame, friendly, welcoming teaching. Lots of content. Very positive, have learnt a lot and feel more confident now. Amazing course.”

“I found it a very interactive course and was very engaging rather than straight lectures. Well organised, good food, good timing to send out course info.”

“I had a really good experience and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to others. Has give me a lot of confidence to diagnose pathologies from x-ray.”