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Continuing Education
Online registration is closed until July 1 for end-of-fiscal-year reconciliation. If you need to register at this time, please fax your registration to Melissa Kilpatrick, 706.583.0350, or send your registration through the mail. Registration payments will be processed on or after July 1, 2013. Download the CE paper registration form here.
Registration:
Download the 2013 endoscopy symposia brochure as a PDF.
Registration fees: Lecture and Lab $1,975
Technician accompanying veterinarian $175
Course fee includes continental breakfasts, refreshment breaks, lunches, instructional materials, and wet lab. Veterinarian registration fee includes a copy of Small Animal Endoscopy (2011), a $165 value.
All surgical equipment for the lab will be provided by corporate sponsors and the University of Georgia. Personally owned equipment will be prohibited in the lectures and laboratory.
Please bring scrubs for the lab portion.
This course will provide 15 CE hours of credit for the lecture and laboratory. Full attendance is required to receive total CE credits.
Course Cancellation Policy
Full refunds are available for cancellations made by 5 p.m. ET, four weeks prior to the event (Nov. 15; note that this is a change from the printed course poster). No refunds will be issued thereafter. If a course is cancelled for any reason, the College of Veterinary Medicine will not be responsible for any charges related to travel.
Summary
This advanced course is designed for people who have either performed some endoscopy or taken a basic course. This is the most actively changing course as endoscopic treatments are constantly modified. The participants will be divided into small surgery teams, each of which may choose the procedures they wish to learn for integration into their practices.
Instructors
Dr. Clarence Rawlings, UGA
Symposia Coordinator and Professor Emeritus
Dr. MaryAnn Radlinsky, UGA
Associate Professor
Location
All sessions are held at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Please use the ramp entrance to the main Vet Med building. Follow the directions here or contact Melissa Kilpatrick at melissak@uga.edu.
Hotel Accommodations
Hotel rooms have been blocked at:
The UGA Hotel at the Georgia Center
1197 South Lumpkin St.
800.884.1381
Block Code: VETDEC2013
Nightly Rate: $99
This hotel is located one block from the Veterinary College. Book your room online!.
Tentative Schedule
Day 1
8 – 8:30 a.m. Registration & continental breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Course overview
8:45 – 10 a.m. Laparoscopy: anesthesia, instrumentation, techniques, exploration/biopsies
10 – 10:45 a.m. Refreshment break with psychomotor skills in lab
10:45 – 12:30 p.m. Minimally-invasive surgical treatments
12:30 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch with the professors
1:15 – 1:45 p.m. Endoscopic knot tying, LigaSure
1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Thoracoscopy: anesthesia, airway management, instrumentation
2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Endoscopy skill development continued (break in lab): knot tying & suturing, LigaSure
3:15 – 4:15 p.m. Thoracoscopy treatments with case presentations
4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Lab orientation for Day 2
4:30 – 5 p.m. Participant roundtable: What Did I Learn?
Day 2
8 - 8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. – Noon Laparoscopy techniques in lab (gastropexy, calculi removal, spay, intracorporeal and extracorporal knot tying, excision biopsy of left medial iliaclymph node for cancer staging, dissect and remove right adrenal gland, and enterostomy feeding tube placement). Other potential procedures include hiatal hernia repair with intracorporeal suturing, gall bladder removal, and nephrectomy.
Noon – 1 p.m. Lunch with the professors
1 – 4:30 p.m. Laparoscopy followed by thoracoscopy in lab (pericardium, lung biopsy with endo-loop, lobectomy with stapler, thoracic duct clip, lymph node dissection, dissect between pulmonary artery and aorta, extracorporeal knot tying about intercostal artery while in ventral recumbency or of internal thoracic when in dorsal recumbency.)
4:30 – 5 p.m. Participant roundtable: What Did I Learn?
Additional Information
Please review our calendar page for travel and parking information, as well as details about our conference policies.
Contacts
For further information about this and other continuing education opportunities, contact Melissa Kilpatrick, Continuing Education: 706.542.1451 or vetmedce@uga.edu
This page was last updated on June 17, 2013.
