Continuing Professional Development

Last week our vets all attended the London Vet Show, a two day event held at Olympia.

The centre of the exhibition hall consisted of dozens of trade stands of veterinary suppliers, pharmaceutical companies, equipment manufacturers and various other businesses all vying for our custom.

 But these were just a small distraction from the more important activities in the numerous conference halls around the exhibition centre which were simultaneously running seminars on a huge variety of topics. Our vets were able to choose topics of interest and move around the show throughout the day in order to attend the various lectures.

The delegates pay an entrance fee to the show and are provided with packed lunches and tea/coffee on tap. While this all sounds like a fun day out with the bonus of sometimes bumping into ex-colleagues or college mates there is a very serious side to the whole exercise.

CPD or Continuing Professional Development is a compulsory part of being a vet. The Royal Veterinary College insists that all registered veterinary surgeons practicing in the UK must complete a minimum number of hours of CPD per annum. The hours can be accumulated in various ways such as webinars, seminars and in-house training.

This ensures that our vets keep abreast of all the latest products, surgical techniques and medical advances and are therefore able to offer our clients the most modern healthcare for their pets.

Here’s Tim, clearly bursting with new found knowledge and is that an old friend hes bumped into……..?