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Educational opportunities at the CVC in Washington, D.C.
Get cutting-edge clinical education live at CVC Washington D.C.
As a CVC attendee, you will have access to more than 500 hours of world-class, cutting-edge educational programming.
Brush up on practice management topics at CVC Washington, D.C.
All CVC attendees are welcome to attend the practice management sessions.
Technician program
Ready to take your skills to a new level? CVC offers an extensive array of topics just for technicians.
Veterinary and technician student program
Launch your career, accelerate professional growth, and make connections with the broader veterinary community, in the vacation-like setting of CVC Washington, D.C.
Sign up for Clinical Techniques Courses
With the popular Veterinary Medicine Wet Lab series, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.
Ask the Expert luncheons
Hungry for CE? Ask the Expert luncheons let you interact with speakers in a small, informal environment that encourages questions and discussion of appropriate case presentations.
Evening sessions
Pick up an additional 2 CE hours each day by attending an Evening Session.
Attend a pre-convention seminar
Conquering Conflicts Seminar
Conquer conflicts with Shawn McVey as you shows you how anger and frustrations push your buttons.
Specialty Focus wet labs
The CVC in Washington DC will hold these exclusive Specialty Focus wet labs.
Specialty Focus: Abdominal Ultrasonography
Ultrasonography is an integral component of providing an optimal standard of patient care. Under the guidance of imaging experts, you?ll receive hands-on scanning practice to hone your ultrasonographic examination skills.
Sign up for a Veterinary Medicine wet lab
Sign up for Clinical Techniques Courses
With the popular Veterinary Medicine Wet Lab series, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.
Surgical Solutions: Fundamental Soft Tissue Surgeries in Dogs and Cats
Learn the basics or tweak your techniques for some of the most frequently needed soft tissue surgeries in veterinary patients: urethrostomy in cats and dogs, cystotomy, anal sacculectomy, reconstruction of large skin defects in cats and dogs, procedures to correct upper airway disease in brachycephalic breeds, inguinal and diaphragmatic hernia repair, and various organ biopsies. In the morning, you will review all the facts you need to succeed in performing these procedures. In the afternoon, you will receive handson training, learn tips, and practice performing these procedures.
Focus on Dentistry: Nerve Blocks for Dental Procedures
Are you offering the best patient care in your dental programs? In this lab, learn the indications for and benefits of using oral nerve blocks, what drugs are most effective, and what complications may occur. This hands-on course will allow you to refine your skills and provide the focused learning that will benefit your patients, clients, and hospital team.
Under the Scope: Cytologic Interpretation
Are you taking advantage of one of the most useful diagnostic procedures that can be performed in your clinic with little to no additional investment? In this course, you will practice and hone your cytologic examination expertise by evaluating multiple cases representing common diseases. Inflammatory and neoplastic diseases involving the skin, pleural and peritoneal cavities, and other major organs will be presented. Take home tips that help you distinguish diagnostic from nondiagnostic smears and inflammation from neoplasia ? all designed for you to put into practice immediately.
Surgical Solutions: Ophthalmic Surgeries
Are you performing simple and therapeutic ophthalmic surgeries as proficiently as you could be? Attend this interactive course and learn the latest techniques and tips in performing practical eyelid and corneal surgeries. Ophthalmologists will provide you with step-by-step instructions on entropion correction, eyelid reconstruction, prolapsed third eyelid gland replacement, linear grid keratotomy, modified conjunctival advancement grafting, and corneal laceration repair. Come learn from the experts the surgical solutions to your patients? ophthalmic injuries and anomalies.
Practical Applications: The Approach to Canine Lameness
Join an orthopedic specialist and member of the American Canine Sports Medicine Association in this interactive hands-on lab. Focusing on orthopedic diagnostics and lameness evaluation, this specialist will present and discuss case workups, specific orthopedic maneuvers, and radiographic tips. Participants will focus on practical diagnostic skills that can be implemented in practice immediately.
Focus on Dentistry: Dental Techniques for Technicians
Upscale your practice?s dental program and enhance your value in practice! Learn techniques that will help you maintain your patients? wellness and improve their care. This lab will cover the proper steps for a complete professional dental cleaning. You will practice performing a thorough oral examination, with emphasis on dental anatomy and pathology, while perfecting proper dental charting. Also, learn valuable hand scaling and ultrasonic scaling techniques. Master dental instrumentation and gain proficiency in your dental techniques.
Focus on Dentistry: Digital Dental Imaging
Because so many oral problems lie beneath the gum line, you need dental radiography to diagnose (and show clients) most of your patients? oral dental abnormalities. Whether you are a newcomer or a veteran, you will concentrate on mastering digital dental radiography techniques. Discover the nuances of correctly positioning your patient and properly aligning your dental sensor, and learn how to consistently obtain and process excellent dental radiographs.
Surgical Solutions: Minimally Invasive Fracture Repair
The benefits of minimally invasive surgery may include shorter operating time, minimal morbidity, earlier recovery, more rapid bone healing, and fewer complications. Attend this one-day course to expand your treatment options by learning this technically less demanding procedure. In the morning, you will review pertinent anatomy and learn about external fixation principles and techniques for long bone fracture repair. In the afternoon, under the guidance of an expert, you will put those principles into immediate use with ample time for hands-on practice.
Specialty Focus: Abdominal Ultrasonography
Ultrasonography is an integral component of providing an optimal standard of patient care. Under the guidance of imaging experts, you?ll receive hands-on scanning practice to hone your ultrasonographic examination skills.
Surgical Solutions — Cruciate Ligament Repair
Join an orthopedic specialist and learn to become proficient in techniques for stabilizing the stifle after a cruciate ligament tear.
Surgical Solutions — Patella Luxation Repair
In this hands-on interactive course, you will learn techniques to stabilize medially or laterally luxating patellas. You will review and practice the approach to the stifle joint and these patella luxation repair techniques: trochlear wedge recession, tibial tuberosity transposition, and capsular imbrication and release. Join an orthopedic surgical specialist to focus on the causes and pathology of this condition as well as the repair techniques and postoperative care for patients with luxating patellas. Participants may find it helpful to review pertinent anatomy and orthopedic instrumentation before attending the lab.
Practical Dental Techniques
Because periodontal disease is the most commonly diagnosed clinical condition in companion animals and multiple systems may also be negatively affected when it is left untreated, the most requested dental procedures are combined in this all-day lab. The morning lecture describes in detail the procedures that you will perform in the afternoon. These include the leading-edge techniques in performing a Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment (COHAT) plan, handling difficult extractions, performing oronsal fistula repairs, administering regional nerve blocks, and treating periodontal lesions to save teeth
Practical Applications: Caring for the Critical Care Patient
Veterinary technicians are on the forefront of patient care and often serve as the voice of the patient. Caring for critical care patients goes beyond obtaining TPRs; these patients need intense and often constant advanced monitoring, re-evaluation, and treatment. In this course, technicians will hone their patient assessment and critical thinking skills through case-based scenarios that focus on different stages of various life-threatening medical conditions. Participants can practice advanced critical care techniques such as central line placement, central venous pressure monitoring, airway access, Foley catheter placement, and nasogastric feeding tube placement.
Surgical Solutions: Essential Gastrointestinal Surgeries
Join us for a day of surgical exploration to enhance your surgical skills in procedures involving the digestive system. In the morning, you will review how to perform a gastrotomy, a gastropexy, an enterotomy, an intestinal resection and anastomosis, a colectomy, various biopsies, and easily and efficiently place an esophageal feeding tube. In the afternoon, you will get hands-on practice and refine your surgical skills while a board-certified surgical specialist guides you, provides practical pointers, and answers your questions about these essential surgical techniques.
Under the Scope: The Complete Urinalysis
Urinalysis is one of the most common in-house diagnostic procedures in veterinary medicine. An interactive lecture and hands-on format will provide expert instruction on complete urinalysis interpretation. You will perform chemical and sediment evaluations and interpret the results. Catch up on the latest dos and don?ts of urine sample collection, storage, and evaluation plus learn valuable pointers for making urinalysis a more reliable test in your practice.
Learn to perform soft tissue surgical procedures
Dr. Joseph Bojrab, MS, PhD, will present a wet lab at CVC Washington DC to help veterinarians who are interested in learning the basics of common soft tissue surgical procedures.
Advanced Stifle Repair Lectures and Lab: TTA (Tibial Tuberosity Advancement) — Sponsored by SECUROS
Are you ready to move to the next level in cranial cruciate repair or are you hoping to refine your technique? This is a one-day interactive course taught by veterinary orthopedic experts
Specialty Focus wet labs
The CVC in Washington DC will hold these exclusive Specialty Focus wet labs.
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