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Educational opportunities at the CVC in Kansas City

Get cutting-edge clinical education live at CVC Kansas City

As a CVC attendee, you will have access to more than 500 hours of world-class, cutting-edge educational programming. Here you'll find the clinical program schedule, complete with topics and speakers.

CVC Kansas City offers special tracks just for technicians

Ready to take your skills to a new level? CVC offers an extensive array of topics just for technicians.

Brush up on practice management topics at CVC Kansas City

All CVC attendees are welcome to attend the practice management sessions.

Veterinary and Technician Student Program

Accelerate your professional growth and make connections with the broader veterinary community at CVC Kansas City.

With the popular Veterinary Medicine Clinical Techniques Courses, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.

Evening sessions

Pick up an additional 2 CE hours each day by attending an Evening Session.

Ask the Expert luncheons

Hungry for CE? Ask the Expert luncheons let you interact with speakers in a small, informal environment that encourages questions and discussion of appropriate case presentations.

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Hospital Design Conference: The Premiere Hospital Design Resource

This three-day conference delivers crucial information about every stage of building or remodeling a practice ? no matter the size, scope, or project budget. At CVC Kansas City, the most respected experts are all on hand to help calm your fears, spare you headaches, and stretch your dollar further. Plus, you?ll share ideas and gain support from others in the same boat. Through a valuable depth of knowledge unavailable elsewhere, you?ll take away the inspiration, tools, and confidence to create a facility that exceeds your expectations.

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With the popular Veterinary Medicine Clinical Techniques Courses, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.

Schedule of Clinical Techniques Courses

View a schedule of the CVC Kansas City hands-on Clinical Techniques Courses.

Surgical Solutions: Essential Gastrointestinal Surgeries

Enhance your surgical skills in procedures involving the digestive system. In the morning reveiw and learn how to perform a gastrotomy, gastropxy, an enterotomy and much more. In the afternoon you will get hands-on experiene under the guidance of board-certified surgical specialist.

Under the Scope: Cytologic Interpretation

Are you taking advantage of one of the most useful diatnostic procedures that can be performed in your clinic? Attend this couse and practice and hone your cytologic interpretation skills.

Practical Applications: Low-stress Handling of Dogs and Cats

Are you still scruffing cats or do dogs struggle when you restrain them? Attend this course and you will learn low-stress techniques for handling even the most difficult patients.

Surgical Solutions: Cruciate Ligament Repair - Lateral Imbrication Technique

Learn and practice this technique for stabilizing the stifle after a cruciate ligament injury.

Practical Applications: Basic Abdominal Ultrasonography

Imaging specialists will teach the basics of ultrasound imaging. You will work with live animals to learn techniques for identifying and examining the major abdominal organ systems using the latest ultrasound equipment.

Advanced Stifle Repair Lecture and Lab: TTA (Tibial Tuberosity Advancement) — Sponsored by SECUROS

Are you ready to move to the next level in cranial cruciate repair or are you hoping to refine your technique? This one-day interactive course is taught by veterinary orthopedic experts.

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