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, self-assessment exercises, supplementary reading material and tutor-moderated online discussion forums
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This course may run again in the future. To register your interest please contact us.
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Course Information
Key Areas
- Pain physiology and pain assessment
- Opioids, other drugs to use when these don’t work – including ketamine, tramadol, gabapentin and new therapies to treat pain
- Local anaesthetic drugs and techniques
- NSAIDs
This course will run again in February 2026, please email cpd@rvc.ac.uk to register your interest.
Many of the patients you see every day in practice will be in pain. Are you doing the best for them? Would you like to improve your ability to assess and treat pain?
This course aims to equip participants with a thorough knowledge of small animal pain, its deleterious effects on patients and approaches to its assessment. The course will then explore the treatment options available for both practice and home use together with their advantages and disadvantages. Real case examples will be used to reinforce the practical nature of pain medicine.
Why do this course?
You will learn recent advances in pain assessment and treatment that you can start to use in your practice the following day – improving analgesia options in your practice before the course has finished!
Tutors
Cristina Bianchi, DVM MVetMed DipACVAA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College
Carolina Palacios Jimenez, DVM CertVA PGCertVetEd PhD DipECVAA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College
Johanna Kaartinen, Msc PhD DipECVAA FHEA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College
Iris Veen, DVM DipECVAA MRCVS
Lecturer in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The Royal Veterinary College