Key Information
CPD Hours: 16 hours
Course Length: Four weeks
Course Format: A mixture of pre-recorded weekly webinars (which can be reviewed throughout the course), live weekly Q&A sessions with the tutors, online case assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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Course Information
Key Areas
- Pain physiology and pain assessment
- Opioids in equine pain management
- Locoregional anaesthesia and analgesia, drugs and techniques
- NSAIDs
- Acupuncture and other non-pharmacological options
This course will run again in September 2026, please email cpd@rvc.ac.uk to register your interest.
We encounter acute and chronic pain in equine practice every day. Are you up to date with the current pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment options? Do you think you could improve your ability to assess pain in equine patients?
This course aims to equip the participants with current knowledge on equine pain and its assessment. The course will then explore the different treatment options along with their advantages and disadvantages. Opioid use in equines and new approaches to locoregional anaesthesia will be reviewed. Ancillary therapies and other pain management modalities such as acupuncture will be explored. Case examples will be used to provide practical examples of equine pain medicine.
Why do this course?
Refresh your equine pain management knowledge and get up to date on new research on this area. Start adding new options in your pain plans the next day!
The webinars for this course will be pre-recorded and can be viewed as recorded versions throughout the course. A live Q&A session with the tutor will run on the following dates:
Live Q&A dates:
Friday 20th September at 13.30pm London time
Friday 27th September at 12.30pm London time
Friday 4th October at 12.30pm London time
Friday 11th October at 12.30pm London time
Tutors
Dietrich Graf von Schweinitz , BSc DVM MRCVS CertVetAc, ABVA
Education Director
To The Point Acupuncture, Guildford
Cristina Bianchi, DVM MVetMed DipACVAA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College
Janny de Grauw, DVM PhD DipECVAA MRCVS
Honorary lecturer in Anaesethesia and Analgesia, Royal Veterinary College
Johanna Kaartinen, Msc PhD DipECVAA FHEA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College
Melanie Perrier, Dr.med.vet DipDACVS DipDECVS CERP MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Equine Surgery
The Royal Veterinary College