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VOI Principles of Fracture Repair Workshop


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VOI Fracture Repair Workshop

Register to grow your fracture repair knowledge and your practice! Learn TODAY!

Join this Movora sponsored workshop on June 24th - 25th for the Principles of Fracture Repair workshop presented by VOI at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Calgary, Alberta!

This two-day workshop will allow participants to understand the basic, fundamental knowledge of bone healing and the favorable impact internal fixation of fractures can have on it.

 

General Vet Registration: $1,250 CAD

Board Certified Surgeon Registration: $1,250 CAD 

Veterinary Technicians Registration: FREE (Use code: TECH100 for Techs to register for this workshop for FREE)

Instructors

INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Terri Schiller BSC, DVM, DACVS, CCRT
 

Workshop Description

Do you have difficulty approaching or reducing long bone fractures? Are you interested in learning simple techniques designed for the general practitioner to repair the most common fractures seen in dogs and cats? This laboratory is the one for you! We will teach reliable techniques and give valuable practical tips useful in repairing simple and more challenging comminuted fractures of long bones.

This blended, online + hands-on, plating course is like NONE other!  If you’re going to be successful with your fracture repairs, you don’t want just SOME of the important principles, you want ALL of them … and this is THE course to put you on right path right from the very start!   You’ll prepare for this “hands-on” training by enjoying the ease of our “anytime / anywhere” online learning modules.  We’ve taken 3 hours of insightful, valuable learning that is self-paced and easy to fit into your day. Once we meet at the University of Calgary, our friendly, engaged, “no attitude” instructor will provide knowledgeable lectures and valuable demonstrations followed by your performing the same procedures on bone models. Rather than rushing from lecture to lecture, we’ll have time to discuss your work so that you can learn from it and ask those burning questions of yours!    Clinical case discussions will put everything into context and allow us to discuss postoperative care and strategies to reduce complications. 

Participants will have the opportunity to repair fractures using traditional plates, locking plates, pins & tension band, lag screws. Locking plates and screws (also known as internal fixator) simplify treatment of long bone fractures in small animals. The implant system is easy to use, great for the general practitioner and affordable. The internal fixator shares the convenience of the external fixator without the hassles of postoperative management.

This workshop is designed to provide participants with a basic, fundamental knowledge of bone healing and the favorable impact internal fixation of fractures can have on it.

Workshop Objectives

  • During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to repair fractures using traditional plates, locking plates, pins & tension band, lag screws. Locking plates and screws (also known as internal fixator) simplify treatment of long bone fractures in small animals. The implant system is easy to use, great for the general practitioner and affordable. The internal fixator shares the convenience of the external fixator without the hassles of postoperative management.
  • During this workshop, participants will familiarize themselves with the implants system through lecture and clinical case presentations. Following lecture and case review, participants will repair fractures on cadavers and plastic bone models. Postoperative management will also be discussed. Postoperative radiographs can be taken to assess the participant's repair technique.
  • Lecture and hands-on laboratory sessions (plastic bone and cadaver) will focus on and reinforce:
    • Surgical approach
    • Tips on successful fracture reduction
    • Repair of simple and challenging comminuted fractures

Prerequisites

This workshop is appropriate for specialist and general practitioners who have an interest in improving their orthopedic knowledge and skills.

CE Credits - RACE Approval 

This workshop will meet the requirements for 17 CE hours of continuing education credits, plus 3 CE hours from the online portion, in jurisdiction which recognizes AAAVSB RACE approval.

Movora provides all equipment and materials for each workshop.

Location

 

Address

University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
UCMV Clinical Skills Building 11877
85 ST NW
Calgary, AB T3R 1J3

Hotel

We would kindly suggest the closest hotel to the event venue: Marriot

This hotel is approximately 15 minutes from the University.

Hotels by the airport are approximately 25 minutes from venue, and hotels in downtown are approximately 30 minutes from venue.

There is no room block at any hotel.

Presented by

 

Here is the course outline:

1. Course Evaluation

Completion

The following certificates are awarded when the course is completed:

VOI Certificate of Completion
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