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Educational opportunities at the CVC in San Diego

Get cutting-edge clinical education live at CVC in San Diego

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.

Brush up on practice management topics at CVC in San Diego

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

CVC in San Diego 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.

With the popular Veterinary Medicine Wet Lab series, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.

Veterinary and technician student program

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

Brand new CVC Power Hours: Only at CVC

Power Hour sessions, new to CVC in San Diego, feature stimulating lectures by expert speakers, such as Dr. Marty Becker and comedian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald.

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.

Evening sessions

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

Attend a preconvention seminar

Veterinary Economics Progress in Practice seminars: Overhaul Your Fees, Revenue, and Expenses

Inspire your staff to lead by developing a mentorship program in your practice and learn key findings from Benchmarks 2011: A Study of Well Managed Practices.

Firstline Live: Team Meeting Confessional: Start Talking Together

Explore what it takes to communicate and build team unity at this high-energy seminar. Get past poor communication habits, perfect the practice, take issue ownership, and assess progress.

Veterinary Economics Managers' Retreat: Managing With Heart

Take your management skills to the next level and boost your practice's success with proven strategies and real-world tactics.

Hospital Design Highlights: Build the Clinic You Want Without Breaking the Bank

At this two-day, in-depth seminar, find out how to get a thorough understanding of the process; maximize space and your budget; and balance the needs of clients, patients, and staff.

Specialty Focus wet labs

The 2010 CVC in San Diego will hold two Specialty Focus wet labs.

With the popular Veterinary Medicine Wet Lab series, you get hands-on training from specialists in areas ranging from ultrasound procedures to ophthalmic surgery.

Schedule of wet labs and workshops

View a schedule of CVC in San Diego wet labs and workshops.

Specialty Focus: Abdominal Ultrasonography

Uncover the secrets of ultrasonography excellence, and build your practice with more skill and experience in diagnostic technology.

Wet lab: Abdominal Surgery

With expert guidance in a hands-on environment, you'll learn about and perform diaphragmatic hernia repairs, hepatic wedge resections, circumcostal gastropexies, the approximating crushing technique for intestinal anastomoses, and segmental colectomies.

Wet lab: Cytology Skills

Cytology is one of the most useful — but underused — diagnostic procedures.

Wet lab: Surgical Solutions — Cruciate Ligament Injury

Join these orthopedic specialists to familiarize yourself with pertinent stifle anatomy and the techniques for stabilizing this joint in a patient with a cruciate ligament tear.

Wet lab: Diagnostic Procedures

Learn valuable techniques and tips to identify and classify cardiopulmonary abnormalities from a cardiologist.

Wet lab: Surgical Solutions — Patella Luxation

Join orthopedic specialists who will familiarize you with pertinent stifle anatomy and techniques to stabilize medially or laterally luxating patellas.

Wet lab: The Complete Urinalysis

Urinalysis is one of the most common in-house diagnostic procedures in veterinary medicine. A lecture and hands-on format will provide expert instruction on complete urinalysis interpretation, including sediment evaluation.

Wet lab: Emergency & Critical Care Procedures

Animals with life-threatening conditions can show up at your hospital at any time. These critical care specialists will guide you through procedures you might need to perform at a moment's notice.

Specialty Focus wet labs

The 2010 CVC in San Diego will hold two Specialty Focus wet labs.

Wet lab: Dental Radiography

Whether you're a newcomer or a veteran, you will concentrate on mastering digital and traditional dental radiography skills.

Wet lab: Dental Techniques for Technicians

Take your practice's dental program to the next level.

Workshop: Cardiology Graphics Workshop

In this interactive workshop, under the guidance of a specialist, you will interpret electrocardiograms, echocardiograms and angiograms and practice applying these findings to clinical situations.

Specialty Focus: Orthopedics-Minimally Invasive Fracture Repair

Bandaging from A to Z — learn how to select appropriate bandages for certain conditions, the dos and don'ts of applying a comfortable bandage, the principles of wound care, and ways to avoid bandaging mistakes.

Wet lab: Canine and Feline Soft Tissue Surgical Procedures

Want to know the latest techniques to help traumatic and surgical wound patients heal faster and better?

Wet lab: Ophthalmic Surgery

Improve your proficiency in performing practical eyelid, conjunctival, and corneal surgeries.

Advanced Stifle Repair Lectures 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 a veterinary orthopedic expert.

Workshop: Anesthetic Monitoring Techniques for Technicians Workshop

This workshop covers safe and effective anesthetic protocols for normal- and high-risk patients.

Wet lab: Practical Dental Techniques

All the most-requested dental procedures are combined in this one-day lab.

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