Key Information
CPD Hours: 16 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of two-hour weekly webinars (which can be viewed live and/or as recorded versions throughout the course), self-assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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Very useful and practical. Learned a lot that I can use going forwards. There is very little good nutrition CPD, which is surprising when it is potentially such a massive part of day to day practice.
Course Information
Key Areas
- Pitfalls of home cooked diets
- Diet and chronic GI disease in dogs
- Diet and skin disorders in animals
- Controversies about home-made diets, commercial diets and raw-food diets
How can we use diets to effectively manage small animals with various disease?
This course is aimed at general practitioners with an interest in small animal gastroenterology, dermatology and nutrition who are often faced with conditions which will require dietary modifications. The course will provide you with practical tips on how to differentiate such cases from other chronic gastrointestinal and dermatological cases, how to treat them and how to educate the owners on the use of hypoallergenic, exclusion and home cooked diets. Some controversial topics will be tackled and lively debates are assured!
Why do this course?
You will gain better understanding and insight of which patients may benefit from dietary management and have an opportunity to discuss a range of topics relevant to nutritional management of your patients.
The webinars will run on the following dates from 12.30pm to 2.30pm London time:
Webinar dates:
Tuesday 21st February
Tuesday 28th February
Tuesday 7th March
Tuesday 14th March
Tutors
Ross Bond, BVM&S PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS
Professor of Veterinary Dermatology
The Royal Veterinary College
Dan Chan, DVM DipACVECC DipECVECC DipACVN FHEA MRCVS
Professor of Emergency Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Nutrition
The Royal Veterinary College
Aarti Kathrani, BVetMed PhD DipACVIM (SAIM) DipACVIM (Nutrition) FHEA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College