The UGA College of Veterinary Medicine

The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Continuing Education

Small Animal Arthroscopy

December 11-12, 2009

Online registration is now closed - the course is full.

Download the 2009 endoscopy conferences brochure as a PDF.

Registration fees: Lecture and Lab $1,100
Technician accompanying veterinarian $125

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 11 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, November 25, 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

This two-day intermediate arthroscopy provides more hands-on practice and introduction to power equipment than prior arthroscopy courses. Three-quarters of the course time is spent performing arthroscopy.

Instructors

Dr. Clarence Rawlings, UGA
Symposia Coordinator and Professor Emeritus

Dr. MaryAnn Radlinsky, UGA
Associate Professor

Dr. Jonathan Chambers, UGA
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Steven Budsberg, UGA
Professor

Dr. John Payne, Pittsburgh Veterinary Surgery
Pittsburgh, PA

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: VAR.
Block of rooms will be held until November 19, 2009.
Rate: $92

Tentative Schedule

Day 1: December 11

8 – 8:30 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Instrumentation and principles

9:45 – 10 a.m. Refreshment break

10 – 11 a.m. Anatomic landmarks, normal anatomy, and pathology (elbow)

11 a.m. – Noon Anatomic landmarks, normal anatomy, and pathology (shoulder, stifle, hock, hip and carpus)

Noon – 1 p.m. Lunch with the professors

1 – 4:30 p.m. Hands-on laboratory (arthroscopy) (cadaver) elbow, shoulder, and stifle: portal development, joint exploration, triagulation

4:30 – 5 p.m. Participant roundtable: What did I learn?

Day 2: December 12

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast

8:30 – 11:30 a.m. Hands-on laboratory: instrument joints, sub-total coronoidectomy, microfacture technique, biceps tendeonectomy, meniscal observation and probing.

11:30 a.m. - Noon Participant roundtable: 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 November 13, 2009.