Description
Flexing your diagnostic muscles with endoscopy
This two-day workshop is meant for general practitioners who all wanting to improve their endoscopy skills, or those who are wanting to do endoscopy but don’t know where to start. Flexible endoscopy can be daunting, the equipment is often delicate and expensive and as good veterinary practitioners we really want to offer our clients an excellent service. Having spent eight years in academia and being involved actively in clinical teaching across all levels of veterinary practise from undergraduate students to residents, Richard have developed a passion for teaching clinical skills. At the end of this workshop, you should be confident and excited to do your next endoscopic examination! The workshop will include theory sessions to help you grasp all aspects of endoscopy in general practise from understanding your equipment, so that you can get the best out of it, to marketing your equipment and also, crucially, to understand the clinical applications and indications for endoscopy.
The workshop will be interactive and fun and will be an opportunity to hopefully make some new friends and contacts and to share experiences, frustrations and the joys and triumphs of clinical practise as we try as a group to move forward and become better vets. During this workshop you will get to work with some state-of-the-art endoscopic equipment, with technical experts on hand that will be able to answer all of your questions about caring appropriately for your precious equipment.
Key Skills:
- Confidently be able to complete upper GI endoscopy
- Collect appropriate diagnostic endoscopic biopsies of the upper GI tract
- Have a sound theoretical and practical basis to remove oesophageal foreign bodies
- Place a percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy tube (and also how to make one if you don’t have one in stock!)
Speaker Biography
Richard Burchell
Specialist in Small Animal Medicine
B.Sc., B.Sc. (Hons) B.V.Sc., MMedVet and DECVIM-CA (SAIM)
Richard Burchell completed a Bachelor of Science degree with an honours year at Rhodes University, South Africa, and then completed a degree in veterinary science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He then spent two years in private practice before enrolling in a residency programme in a private referral practice. He moved to the University of Pretoria as a Lecturer in Small Animal Medicine in 2012. During his time there, he completed a small animal medicine residency through the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and is recognised as a small animal medicine specialist by the European Board of Veterinary Specialisation. Richard spent 8 years working in academia before moving into private practice, and is now based at North Coast Specialist and Referral Centre on the Sunshine Coast. He has a passion for teaching and clinical work and his research interests are in endocrinology. Richard was recognised for his clinical teaching by being awarded the “clinician of the year “award twice during the three years he worked at the University of Pretoria. Richard has been invited to speak at many CPD events in South Africa, New Zealand, Malaysia and Australia and has presented at veterinary congresses in 4 different countries. Richard has authored 3 textbook chapters and has 22 peer reviewed publications in the veterinary literature.
Value to your practice
Flexible endoscopy can be daunting, the equipment is often delicate and expensive and as good veterinary practitioners you will be able to offer clients an excellent service. Achieve better outcomes for your patients. Reinforce your clinics reputation as a centre of excellence. Improve the skill-set and contentment of your whole team by optimising case management.
Learning the techniques involved at this hands-on workshop will allow you to offer this service to your clients.
Accommodation
There are 2 suggested accommodation options which are a 5 minute drive from the workshop venue and 15 minutes to Auckland airport, including:
Event Details
Start date: November 09, 2022
End date: November 10, 2022
Start time: 08:30
End time: 17:00
Venue: Kahuvet Education Centre, Wiri, Auckland
Coordinates: -37.004418, 174.866307
Directions: 23 Ash Road, Wiri, Auckland 2104
