Webinar Plus: Responsible antimicrobial use in small animal practice

Key Information

CPD Hours: 24 hours

Course Length: Six weeks

Course Format: A mixture of 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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Course Information

Key Areas
  • Antimicrobial therapy for skin disease
  • Antimicrobials in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disease
  • Treatment of bacterial urinary tract infections
  • Antimicrobial treatment of respiratory tract disease
  • Rational perioperative use of antimicrobials
  • Antimicrobials in emergency cases
About this course

Do you worry about antimicrobial resistance, but you still want the best treatment outcomes for your canine and feline patients?

Using antimicrobials wisely and well is an essential element of good clinical practice. General guidelines are useful, but practitioners are often looking for more specific information relevant to their clinical cases – knowing what is appropriate to use in different disorders and, just as importantly, when antimicrobials are not indicated. This course will provide you with the most recent evidence, best treatment recommendations and context on how to use antimicrobials responsibly in small animal practice. It will be delivered by a team of expert clinicians with particular interest and expertise in antimicrobial use in their field.

Why do this course?
Common scenarios and dilemmas in the context of antimicrobial therapy will be discussed. This will help you with challenging treatment decisions on antimicrobial therapy at a time when antimicrobial resistance has become one of the major threats to human and animal health.

You can also purchase individual webinars from this course to attend live. Please note that buying webinars separately does not grant access to the full course materials.

The webinars will run on the following dates from 1pm to 3pm London time.

Tuesday 14th April - Antimicrobial therapy for skin disease
Tuesday 21st April - Rational perioperative use of antimicrobials
Tuesday 28th April - Antimicrobials in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disease
Tuesday 5th May - Antimicrobial treatment of respiratory tract disease
Tuesday 12th May - Treatment of bacterial urinary tract infection
Tuesday 19th May - Antimicrobials in emergency cases

Webinar Series 
The webinars in this course can also be purchased individually (£75 per webinar or £425 for 6)
. These webinars do not include extra reading material, quizzes to check you have understood and retained the information and perhaps most valuable of all, the opportunity to interact with the specialists and colleagues from around the world. For more information XXXX Webinar series: Responsible antimicrobial use in small animal practice XXX

Tutors

Dan Brockman, BVSc CertVR CertSAO DipACVS DipECVS MRCVS
Professor of Small Animal Surgery
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

Rosanne Jepson, BVSc MVetMed PhD DipACVIM DipECVIM-CA FHEA MRCVS
Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College

Aarti Kathrani, BVetMed PhD DipACVIM (SAIM) DipACVIM (Nutrition) FHEA MRCVS
Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine and Nutrition
The Royal Veterinary College

Anette Loeffler, DrMedVet PhD DVD DipECVD MRCVS
Professor of Veterinary Dermatology
The Royal Veterinary College

Chris Scudder, BVSc MVetMed PhD DACVIM-SAIM, DECVIM-CA MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine
The Royal Veterinary College

Sarah Tayler, BVetMed (Hons) MVetMed PGDipVCP Dip-ACVIM MRCVS
Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine (CET)
The Royal Veterinary College