Recorded Tutorials
We run Zoom CPD tutorials fortnightly at 8am Fridays AEST.
These are casual, case-based and well suited to people with an interest in small animal internal medicine. Please join the CPD Tutorial Group by subscribing here.
Membership Practice Oral Exam 2025
We run through a practice exam in the style that the exam will be presented in to give candidates an idea of what to expect. Good luck to all our membership candidates!
Nutritional Management of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Including Hyperlipidaemia
This session is mostly practice oral exam - discussion is case-based and focused on elements that haven't yet been examined on. We touch on nutrition, but only briefly!
Nutritional Management of Hepatobiliary, GIT and Pancreatic Disease
Membership prep! We're getting serious now. This session is all quiz based, with questions around pathogenesis and nutritional management of liver, GIT and pancreatic disease, with a few curly off topic ones thrown in.
Nutrition Principles and Obesity, Cachexia and Sarcopenia
Getting close to memberships time! We talk about obesity, its causes and effects, as well as cachexia. Today's session has some pop quiz questions on unrelated topics for our incredibly clever membership candidates to practice with too.
Pharmacology of Anti-inflammatory and Immunosuppressive Drugs
Today we work through the mechanism of action of common anti-inflammatories and immunomodulatory drugs, and the intersection of inflammatory and immune-mediated disease. Membership exams approaching fast, some pop quiz questions in here!
Antimicrobial Drug Therapy
An informal chat about antibiotic therapy, including when it’s practical and important to perform culture and susceptibility testing, MICs and whether we should ask for them, the concept of tissue penetration of antibiotics and thoughts on dosing regimes, all discussed while keeping antimicrobial stewardship in mind.
Specific Toxicoses - Case Based
Toxicity is a great way to review organ physiology. Today we discuss the mechanisms and management of toxicities including Paracetemol, NSAIDs, Tremorgenic toxins, and acute nephrotoxicity (including some controversial chat around the role of diuresis before there is evidence of renal injury).
Toxicology 101
How are toxins processed? What happens when we exceed the normal detoxification pathways and toxicity develops? What decontamination strategies do we have to limit risk of toxicity developing? We unlock the secrets of cytochrome P450, P glycoprotein efflux pumps and glucuronidation in this tutorial... well, not really, but we talk a lot about how confusing it is!
CPR
In this tutorial, we run through changes to the CPR guidelines, using the phenomenal resource https://recoverinitiative.org/2024-guidelines/. It is so reassuring to be seeing some evidence-based consensus in this field!
Sonography Tutorial
Internal Training with The Vet’s North Team.
Case Discussion: Gall bladder pathology A review of wall changes and different treatment recommendations.
Sepsis / SIRS, Anaphylaxis, and Hyperthermia
We get deep into the clinical presentation and management of sepsis and SIRS - most common causes, pathogenesis of the inflammatory response, and organs / systems effected. We also cover the different presentations and management of Anaphylaxis.
Neurologic, Lower Urinary Crises and Acute Abdomen
Today we discuss the different types of bleeding and neurological disorders we can see in emergency presentations (where my smart colleagues teach me stuff about transfusion medicine!). The last section of the tutorial is how to differentiate a surgical from a non-surgical acute abdomen, some cool tricks in this bit!
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