Equine Medicine

Equine Medicine Mini Module November 2024

With all-new material for Autumn 2024, the University of Liverpool is delighted to present an Equine Medicine mini-module, providing 25 hours of CPD in a flexible, remote learning environment.

The Equine Medicine module is aimed at more experienced practitioners working in the field of Equine Medicine including those of you with either CertAVP(ED) or Advanced Practitioner Status and those working in ambulatory equine practice. These modules are a great way to support your CPD requirements for the year and for those who have completed a CertAVP and are an Advanced Practitioner in Equine Medicine or Equine Practice, these modules will help maintain your Advanced Practitioner status.

These 100% online modules will provide you with 25 hours of designated specific CPD. Over 4 weeks this mini-module will cover a different topic each week in an area in which there may have been changes, advances or controversies. The course is taught and tutored by University of Liverpool and external veterinary specialists with recorded lectures, readings, MCQ’s and cased based interactive Zoom meetings.

 Course content:

 Week 1: 4th November 2024

Welfare

Speakers: Nic de Brauwere and Nicola Berryman (Redwings) and Naomi Williams (RSPCA) and Madeleine Campbell (Empathy Veterinary Ethics)

This week Nic, Nicola and Naomi will cover an approach to welfare cases including understanding the law and what welfare means, clinical pathology and collecting evidence followed by care and management of these cases and when it’s appropriate to manage them in situ and what can be done.

Maddy will discuss the current freedoms, frameworks and domain models of equine welfare and relate these to both sports and leisure horses.

A case-based Zoom meeting will provide the opportunity to interact with the speakers informally over case-based discussions

Week 2: 11th November 2024

Pain Management

Speakers: Alison Bennell, April Lawson and Becky Smith (University of Liverpool)

This week will cover pharmacological options for the management of acute and chronic pain, the use of the modified composite pain score in clinical practice, and Becky Smith will discuss her recent research on owners' perception of chronic pain in osteoarthritis.

 

Week 3: Break Week

 Week 4: 25th November 2024

Geriatric Medicine

Speakers: Jo Ireland and Becky Smith (University of Liverpool), Nicky Jarvis (Redwings)

This week will cover quality of life assessment in older horses, clinical management of geriatric horses with multiple problems and a case-based approach to geriatric nutrition.

 Week 5: 2nd December 2024

Donkeys are different and why it matters

Speakers: Alex Thiemann (The Donkey Sanctuary) and Nicola Harries (Wright and Morten)

This week will take a deep dive into donkey medicine, looking at how donkeys are different to horses and how we need to adapt our approach. It will include;

  • Sedation and anaesthesia focussing on the important differences and how we can adapt our horse and pony sedation and anaesthesia protocols and techniques accordingly
  • Recognition of pain- How do we know if a donkey is unwell? they are a species noted for their “stoicism” and are rarely ridden, so subtle lameness and respiratory signs are often overlooked. Welfare can be severely compromised if we can’t understand our patients. This lecture covers how to use acute, chronic and facial composite pain scores in the donkey, and how this helps your decision-making in a hospital and field situation using case examples.
  • Colic in the donkey - detecting colic in the donkey can be difficult or delayed due to their stoic nature and the subtle clinical signs displayed; secondary hyperlipaemia is a frequent finding in donkeys with colic. In this lecture, we will consider the different presenting signs of colic, explore the strong association between dental disease and colic, and discover that rectal examination is possible in most donkeys. 
  • Effective triage for the dull donkey - will help you decide how to manage the first opinion “dull donkey”, what hand-held monitors can we use, what first aid treatment is appropriate, and whether to refer to a clinic.

There will be a case-based Zoom meeting providing an opportunity to interact with the speakers informally with case-based discussions.

 

A case-based Zoom meeting will provide the opportunity to interact with the speakers informally over case-based discussions

Start date: 4th November 2024

Cost: £420