Date: 27th September 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Establish the fundamentals of soft tissue surgery in small animal clinics.
• Understand the justification of antimicrobials and their impact.
• Recognise the most common instruments, suture patterns, knots and suture materials.
• Understand the fundamentals of peri-operative case management including patient stabilisation and pain scoring.
• Establish oncological surgery principles.
• Define the different types of mass excision.
• Recognise the draining lymph nodes to different areas and how to remove them.

Module Summary:

• Halstead’s principles and their application to clinical practice.
• Haemostasis and blood transfusions.
• Theatre checklists and links to outcome in human surgeries.
• How to suture, suture techniques and choosing the correct material.
• How to tie knots, including slip knot and modified Miller’s knot.
• Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis and appropriate use of antibiotics.
• Principles of oncologic surgery.
• Wound infections and surgical site infections.
• Patient and surgeon preparation.
• Sustainable surgery.

Speaker: Nicola Kulendra, Heather Williams

Date: 28th September 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify the anatomical features of the larynx and how to perform an arytenoid lateralisation procedure.
• Interpret clinical and diagnostic findings to manage oropharyngeal stick injuries and salivary mucocoeles.
• Define the treatment options for sinonasal aspergillosis.
• Recognise the most common indications for ear surgeries and the decision making behind the techniques.
• Recognise the features of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS) and the principles of surgery.

Module Summary:

• The nose; rhinoplasty, nasal masses.
• Salivary gland diseases and surgery.
• Management of sinonasal aspergillosis; nasal cannulas and frontal sinus trephination.
• The larynx; laryngeal paralysis, biopsy, laryngeal collapse.
• Ventral neck – exploration for stick injuries, foreign bodies, abscesses.
• Ear – aural haematoma, lateral wall resection, total ear canal ablation and lateral bulla osteotomy, ventral bulla osteotomy.
• BOAS surgery.

Speaker: Zoe Halfacree

Date: 4th October 2025

Location: Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Practical day summary:

• Instrument handling.
• How to suture: intradermals, continuous.
• Different knots: sliding, Modified Millers, Aberdeen.
• How to drain a chest.
• Mila chest drain.
• Oesophagostomy tube.
• Naso-oesophageal feeding tube.
• Urethral catheter.
• Cystostomy tube.
• Gastrostomy tube.

Speaker: Nicola Kulendra

Date: 5th October 2025

Loocation:Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Practical day summary

• BOAS surgery.
• Lip resection.
• Salivary mucocoele.
• Aural haematoma.
• Pinnectomy.
• TECA-LBO.
• Ventral neck exploration.
• Thyroidectom.

Speaker: Zoe Halfacree

Date: 25th October 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Identify features of the gastrointestinal tract and how to improve the outcome for patients.
• Recognise the diagnostic imaging features of common gastrointestinal conditions.
• Understand common indications for gastrointestinal surgery and surgical techniques.
• Define the underlying causes, diagnosis and treatment of septic peritonitis.
• Understand the pathophysiology of portosystemic shunts and surgical management.
• Diagnose and manage a haemoabdomen and understand the principles behind splenectomy.
• Identify a cleft palate and principles of surgical repair.

Module Summary:

• Factors affecting healing of the gastrointestinal tract.
• How to perform a gastrotomy, gastrectomy, enterotomy, enterectomy, biopsy and rectal eversion.
• Diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal foreign bodies, intussusception and neoplasia.
• Diagnosis and management of septic peritonitis.
• GDV: patient stabilisation, diagnosis and management.
• Colonic surgery.
• Rectal masses.
• Portosystemic shunts.
• Perineal hernia.

Speaker: Andrew Phillips

Date: 26th October 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the diagnosis and differentials for haemabdomen.
• Identify the blood vessels to the spleen and techniques of how to perform a splenectomy.
• Understand the anatomy of the abdominal wall and types of body wall ruptures and hernias.
• Define the indications and surgical techniques for types of amputations, diaphragmatic and body wall ruptures and hernias.

Module Summary:

• Haemaoabdomen principles and splenectomy.
• Principles of herniorrhaphy including common hernias.
• Diaphragmatic hernias.
• Amputations: digit, tail, front limb, hind lim.

Speaker: Zoe Halfacree

Date: 22th November 2025

Location:Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Practical day summary:

• Exploratory laparotomy.
• Gastrotomy.
• Gastrectomy.
• Enterotomy.
• Enterectomy (simple vs caudal duodenal flexure/iliocaecocolic valve).
• Biopsy techniques (stomach, intestine, liver, pancreas, lymph node).

Speaker: Andrew Phillips

Date: 23rd November 2025

Location:Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Competencies and objectives:

• Diaphragmatic rupture.
• Incisional gastropexy.
• Splenectomy.
• Inguinal ring and principles of herniorrhaphy.
• Amputate digit, tail, front limb, hind limb.

Speaker: Zoe Halfacree

Date: 29th November 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the anatomy and physiology of the genital and urinary tract.
• Define the techniques for neutering including recent controversies.
• Understand common urinary tract surgeries.
• Identify parameters to diagnose uroabdomen and uroretroperitoneum.
• Differentiate management of different uroliths.
• Understand the pathophysiology of urinary incontinence and how to manage common conditions.

Module Summary:

• Female genital tract: ovariectomy vs ovariohysterectomy, laparoscopiuc ovariectomy, vaginal diseases and episiotomy.
• Male reproductive tract.
• Placement of urethral catheters.
• Diagnostic imaging of the urogenital tract.
• Renal diseases and nephrectomy.
• Ureteric diseases including obstruction and ectopic ureters.
• Cystotomy and cystectomy.
• Management of urolith cases.
• Urethral obstruction and rupture.
• Urethrostomies.
• Urinary incontinence.

Speaker: Lynda Rutherford

Date: 30th November 2025

Modality: Streaming

Competencies and objectives:

• Understand the structure of the skin and how wounds heal.
• Understand how to manage open wounds and to encourage wound healing.
• Define the different types of flaps, grafts and methods of wound closure.

Module Summary:

• Skin structure and different types of wound healing.
• How to manage open wounds and dressing techniques.
• Tension reliving techniques including skin stretching.
• Subdermal plexus flaps.
• Axial pattern flaps.
• Skin grafts.
• Management of specific wounds e.g. burns, airgun pellets.

Speaker: Benito de la Puerta

Date: 13rd December 2025

Location:Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Practical day summary:

• Basic mass/wounds and reconstruction.
• Subdermal plexus flaps
  • Axillary/inguinal fold flap.
  • Advancement flap.
  • H plasty.
  • Phalangeal filet.
• Axial pattern flaps
  • Caudal superficial epigastric.
  • Thoracodorsal.
  • Caudal (tail).
• Skin graft.

Speaker: Benito de la Puerta

Date: 14th December 2025

Location:Presential – Central CPD (The Clinical Skills Lab, 204a Manor Place, Kennington, London, SE17 3BN)

Practical day summary:

• Ovariectomy.
• Cystotomy/cystectomy.
• Identify ureters.
• Nephrectomy.
• Colposuspension.
• Urethrotomy/urethrostomy.

Speaker: Lynda Rutherford