VetScholar Courses

VetScholar online courses offer flexible learning programmes for busy veterinarians.

  • Modules can be completed over a six week period.
  • Topics are tailored to clinical training needs.
  • Courses are tutored by veterinary specialists.

VetScholar courses qualify for CPD points under the new Veterinary Council of NZ (VCNZ) CPD framework - 1 hour = 1 point.

Advanced Mastitis Course

An intensive short course for veterinarians

This course will provide you with the skills, understanding and processes to effectively manage major mastitis problems on New Zealand dairy farms, and accredit you to provide mastitis control services to Fonterra suppliers and access demerit relief funding.

Mastitis Management Accreditation Course

If you've already completed the Advanced Mastitis course or the Countdown Downunder Advisor Training course, and want to refresh/improve your skills and confidence - and gain accreditation to provide mastitis control services to Fonterra suppliers and access demerit relief funding - then this course is for you!

When and where

Day 4 of advanced mastitis course and Day 2 of mastitis management accreditation course: 27 April 2012, Franklin Vets, 86 Harris Street Pukekohe 2120

2012 Animal Welfare: Ethics, Science And Law

Veterinarians and professionals from a wide variety of disciplines increasingly need to know how the law applies to animals in everything from routine pet care and provision of animal health and welfare services, to urban and farm management, transport, food safety, biosecurity, environmental management and international trade.

Module One: Animal welfare and the law

Module Two: Animal welfare in agriculture

Module Three: Balancing 'client confidentiality' and animal welfare

Healthy Thinking For The Veterinary Profession

Stress is known to lead directly to many chronic and acute health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure and depression.  The Healthy Thinking Institute offers an online course using tools developed to teach emotional and attitudinal management leading to reduced stress helping you to achieve new levels of job and interpersonal success

When

Four intakes starting 14 May, 9 July, 10 September and 12 November 2012

Veterinary Refresher Scheme For Companion Animal Practice

This course is for veterinarians returning to companion animal practice or those wanting to change to companion animal practice from another area of clinical practice.  It is also a mini-refresher course for those veterinarians already in companion animal pratice.  Please note: A current practising certificate is required to complete this course.

When

12 March - 15 July 2012

This course is now full

Keeping Up To Date In Small Animal Surgery

Tutored by surgical specialists, this course will help general practitioners better understand the surgical implications of forelimb and soft tissue conditions seen regularly in New Zealand.  These include diseases of the ear, male reproductive tract and abdominal masses.

When

Module 2: 28 May - 8 July

Emergency Medicine: Dealing With The Poisoned Patient

The last 15 years have seen dramatic changes in the clinical management of poisoned animals. Outdated decontamination techniques, such as emesis, gastric lavage and ion trapping, may be ineffective or at worst, contraindicated. New approaches to removing poisons from the systemic circulation are producing exciting results. Practitioners cannot afford to be out of date.

When

14 May - 24 June

The Conundrum Of Chronic Pain: If Only They Could Talk

There are increasing numbers of geriatric patients for whom pain is a cardinal pathology, but it need not be this way.  Many patients can be kept relatively pain-free well into old age.  Previously, where the animal's signs may have resulted in euthanasia, owners now request that more should be done.

When

16 July - 26 August

In-clinic Haematology And Cytology

Haematology and cytology examined in-clinic will enable more rapid diagnosis and treatment and these increased skills will translate to better service, increased professional satisfaction and financial return.

When

23 July - 28 October 2012

Getting It Right When Things Go Wrong In Equine Practice

Complications of procedures and pharmacological interventions can occur in equine practice - sometimes with spectacular results.  When things go wrong, understanding the mechanisms and having prior knowledge of the likely consequences can help you mitigate the problem and turn a potential disaster into a salvageable situation. This course is aimed at helping clinicians be forewarned, and hence forearmed, against incidents that can occur even when the clinician is practising their best medicine.

When

1 October - 11 November