The UGA College of Veterinary Medicine

The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

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Continuing Education

Basic Small Animal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Laparoscopy

February 20-22, 2009

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Registration fees: Lecture and Lab $2,200
Technician accompanying veterinarian $260

Course fee includes continental breakfasts, refreshment breaks, lunches, instructional materials, and wet lab.

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 22.5 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, February 6, 2009. 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

The basic small animal gastrointestinal endoscopy and laparoscopy is also introductory, but has plenty of practice to get the practitioner ready to perform upper and lower flexible scoping in patients. In addition, laparoscopy as taught on day 2 of the rigid endoscopy course will be on the third day.

Instructors

Dr. Clarence Rawlings, UGA
Symposia Coordinator and Professor Emeritus

Dr. MaryAnn Radlinsky, UGA
Associate Professor

Dr. Cynthia Ward, UGA
Associate Professor

Dr. Steffan Sum, UGA
Instructor

Dr. Todd Tams, VCA-Antech, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

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

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn
197 East Broad St., Athens, GA 30603
Phone: 706.549.4433
Located adjacent to campus, about 1 mile from the CVM. Free parking and shuttle service to the College of Veterinary Medicine (if requested at check-in).
Room block code: VGI.
Block of rooms will be held until January 29, 2009.
Rate: $92

Tentative Schedule

Basic Small Animal Gastro-Intestinal and Laparoscopy

Day 1 (February 20)
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Course Overview
8:45 - 10:30 GI Endoscopy: Indications, Case Examples, Equipment Selection, How to Become Proficient.
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break and Practice with Endoscopy Training Models
11:00 - 12:30 Techniques for Esophagoscopy, Gastroscopy, and Duodenoscopy with Biopsy Techniques
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 4:30 Hands-on Laboratory with Esophagoscopy, Gasroscopy, and Duodenoscopy in Models and Anesthetized Dogs
4:30 – 5:00 Participant Roundtable Session: What Did Learn? What Can I Take Home To My Practice?

Day 2 (February 21) 8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 Integration of Endoscopy into Your Practice: Gaining Client Compliance With Recommendations, How To Charge. Review of Upper GI Techniques From Day 1 with Q&A, Disorders and Cases Diagnosed With Upper GI, Endoscopy.
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment Break and Practice With Endoscopy Training Models
11:00 - Noon Colonoscopy: Indications, Cases, Colon Prep, and Colonoscopy Techniques
Noon – 12:30 Endoscopic Gastric Foreign Body Retrieval
12:30 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 Hands-on Laparoscopy Laboratory with Colonoscopy and Upper GI Flexible Endoscopy
4:30 - 5:00 Participant Roundtable Session: What Did I Learn? What Can I Take Home?

Day 3 (February 22)

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:20 Laparoscopy: Anesthesia and Instrumentation
9:20 - 10:20 Laparoscopy: Methodology and Case Examples
10:20 - 10:50 Refreshment Break
10:50 - 11:20 Cancer Staging & Laparoscopy: Case Examples
11:20 - 12:15 Introduction To Minimally Invasive Surgery
12:15 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 Hands-on Laparoscopy Laboratory with Biopsies of Liver, Kidneys, Pancreas, Lymph Nodes, and Small Intestines, Incisional Gastropexy, Spay, Cystoscopic Calculi Removal
4:30 - 5:00 Participant Roundtable Session: What Did I Learn?

Contacts

For further information about this and other continuing education opportunities, contact:

Melissa Kilpatrick, Continuing Education: 706.542.1451 or melissak@uga.edu

This page was last updated December 9, 2008.