CPD Hours: 42 hours
Course Length: Six weeks
Course Format: An intensive tutor-moderated online learning experience. Resources include online presentations, electronic course notes, case assessments and discussion forums in which participants review and discuss cases with their colleagues and the tutor
Key Areas
- Practical review of CT technology
- Protocols for acquiring CT-images of the head, neck, and limbs
- Reading CT images
- Artefacts and incidental findings
- Interpreting CT findings
About this course Are you using or planning to use CT in your practice?
During this six week online course the essentials of computed tomographic (CT) examination of horses will be covered. CT cases covering the most common, but also not so common lesions will be presented for individual study, which will enhance the participants' skill in examining, detecting and describing CT lesions.
Why do this course?
You will gain an understanding of the potential and advantages of CT examinations in horses and develop a systematic approach to reading CT images. You will gain confidence in identifying and interpreting lesions based on scientific evidence as well as enhance your skills in radiographic report writing.
Tutors
Dagmar Berner, Dr.med.vet. DipECVDI MRCVS
Lecturer in Equine Diagnostic Imaging
The Royal Veterinary College
Gabriel Manso Díaz, DVM MSc PhD MRCVS
Large Animal Diagnostic Imaging Resident, The Royal Veterinary College
Lecturer in Large Animal Diagnostic Imaging, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Maren Hellige, Dr.med.vet MRCVS
Large Animal Diagnostic Imaging Resident
The Royal Veterinary College