There’s a new Veterinary CPD and Veterinary Nurse CPD brochure on its way to you if you are on our mailing list. If you don’t get it, please contact us and make sure that we have your details and permission to mail to you. This brochure features some of our autumn courses, and it’ll be perfect for you if you haven’t completed all of your required CPD hours for 2010. There’s a special emphasis on Practical CPD courses with extensive hands-on sessions where you can learn and practise new skills, clinical and surgical techniques. These are the courses that will give you skills that you can use directly in your practice on your return, for the benefit of your patients, their owners and your practice bottom line. (Hopefully in that order.) Look out for the ‘Very Practical’ labels on the courses to identify the right course for you.
Archive for the ‘Veterinary CPD’ Category
New Veterinary CPD Brochure Landing Soon
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010£800 Veterinary CPD Benefits for Keysteps Online Members
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010I’m delighted to announce that all of our Keysteps Online Members, vets and nurses, will benefit from £800 of Free veterinary or veterinary nurse CPD during the coming year. In addition to unlimited access to quality video programmes on small animal practice topics, Keysteps Online Members will receive free webinars, free mp3s and pdf downloads, free videos on DVD, CPD vouchers and extensive attendance course discounts. If you’d like to see what you get with Keysteps Online, sign up for a free trial at www.keysteps.net
Clinical Club – New Veterinary Video Site
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Clinical Club is now available for vets and nurses. Clinical Club will help to keep you up to date in key areas of small animal practice or small animal nursing. Each month you get a video programme by a leading expert, plus a download of the audio so that you can listen to it away from the computer, and a PDF of the transcript to print. Video programmes are from our flagship online veterinary CPD site Keysteps Online. The main difference with Clinical Club is that you get clinical information and updates in one selected key area each month. There is no minimum membership period and the monthly fee is highly affordable for both vets and nurses. Members also benefits from unique special offers. You can check out Clinical Club here with a free demo.
Keysteps Online Programmes Gain RACE Approval
Monday, March 22nd, 2010CPD Solutions is now a RACE approved provider of continuing education. Three Keysteps Online veterinary CPD video programmes have also been approved as providing one hour of continuing education each. The first programmes are on Comminuted Fracture Management, Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus and Canine Lymphoma. More programmes will now be submitted to RACE for approval so that US veterinarians can get the full benefit of a Keysteps Online subscription. This is believed to be the first instance of RACE approval for UK-based online veterinary video continuing education, and it is an exciting development for CPD Solutions. Other overseas markets for the Keysteps Online service are also being researched.
New Look for online Veterinary CPD
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Our Keysteps Online website providing video veterinary CPD and veterinary CE has had an upgrade! The login area at www.keysteps.net now contains much more information about the programme, together with a programme clip and feedback from subscribers. We’ll be developing this area further in the future. Once you login as a subscriber or register for a free trial, the vet’s CPD site has been subdivided into several additional channels to make it easier for vets to find specific programmes. There are now channels on Surgery, Medicine, Exotics, Surgical Refreshers, Business Skills and one for the most Recent programmes. Take a look now at www.keysteps.net
VAT rate change for Veterinary CPD courses
Monday, January 4th, 2010As I’m sure you know, the VAT rate increased from 15% to 17.5% on January 1st 2010. This has caused adminstrative challenges for everyone in business, and has hit small businesses such as veterinary practices particularly hard. It’s clear that the government is sadly lacking in ministers who have successfully run businesses. Anyway I’m sorry to add to your challenges when it comes to booking your veterinary cpd for 2010, but if you have a Spring 2010 Brochure, the VAT rate and the prices including VAT are now wrong. As brochures have to be produced well in advance to allow you to book the courses of your choice, I’m afraid we had to include the old 15% VAT rate in this brochure. When you’re booking courses using this brochure, please calculate the VAT at 17.5% and send in the correct course fee. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
TPLO Veterinary CPD Course
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009If you’d like to learn how to perform the TPLO (Slocum technique) next year, we’ve got the course for you. A highly practical, 2-day intensive course with leading TPLO specialist Jon Dyce of Ohio State University. This course has successfully taught hundreds of vets to carry out the Slocum TPLO; join them and make use of this valuable procedure in your practice when you attend this course in May 2010. Details are on the website in the Orthopaedic Courses section. There’s also a free article to download in this section which will give you practical tips from the experts for case selection and performance of the procedure.
New Orthopaedic Veterinary CPD Courses
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009We’ve got 2 new courses for next year, designed as a follow-on from our very popular Introduction to Orthopaedics course. The latter, designed by specialist Orthopaedic surgeon Toby Gemmill, has helped hundreds of delegates to start out in orthopaedic surgery and taken away some of their anxiety when faced with procedures such as femoral head and neck excision and dealing with patellar luxations. So if you’ve been on Introduction to Orthopaedics or another introductory course, check out ‘Moving on with Joint Surgery’ and ‘Moving on with Fracture Surgery’ in the Orthopaedic Surgery section of our website. These could be the next step in developing your decision-making and practical skills.
Website Competition Winner
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009I’m delighted to announce the winner of our first website competition! Amanda Kleinman wins £100 of Amazon vouchers after correctly identifying the veterinary item in the picture. I’m sure you got it right- yes it was a stethoscope. We did keep the first one easy on purpose- the next pic will be a bit harder. Around 200 people entered the competition so if that’s repeated with the next one it gives you a very good chance of winning. Let us know if you’d rather we offered a different prize for the competition, and also if there are any additional courses you’d like to see in our veterinary cpd and veterinary nurse cpd range.
A Chance to Increase Your Practice Profitability
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009We’re running some new courses with veterinary business expert Malcolm Wright. Lots of vets have requested business courses specifically designed for practice, and these will fit the bill.
