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Endoscopy and Endosurgery
ISVPS General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert)
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Mar - Nov 2027
Enhance your veterinary expertise with our Small Animal Endoscopy & Endosurgery programme
Endoscopy and endosurgery are rapidly advancing in veterinary practice, offering effective diagnostic and treatment options for small and large animals. Our 12-module program provides a practical and comprehensive understanding of incorporating these techniques into veterinary practice. With affordable and reliable equipment, even general practitioners can safely access these procedures.
The modules will assist delegates in developing their knowledge of endoscopy and endosurgery and help them utilise this diagnostic aid as a valuable practical skill for everyday work.
NOTE: Dates displayed on this programme are subject to change.
Key features of this program
Expert Speakers
Leading experts in a variety of clinical topics delivering the latest content and who will guide you throughout the programme
Reflective learning
In addition to the taught modules, you will receive pre- and post-module questions to help you reflect and track your learning. This approach to reflective learning will assist you throughout your career as a veterinary professional
Dedicated Online Platform
Access to our world-leading online learning management platform – providing access to course notes and other study resources
Varied modules
Covering key clinical subjects with clinical case discussions for a more comprehensive learning
Multiple learning processes
Presentations, written notes, and multiple choice quizzes that test your knowledge as you work
Clinical case discussions
Allowing you to relate your theoretical knowledge to real clinical practice
Programme Details
Module Summary
- Flexible Endoscopy: Respiratory Tract Examination and Therapeutic Techniques
- Introduction to Flexible Endoscopy: Instrumentation, Basic Technique, Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Examination
- Flexible Endoscopy: Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
- Introduction to Endoscopy and Endosurgery: Instrumentation
- Rigid Endoscopy: Basic Principles of Rhinoscopy and other 'Oscopies'
- Rigid Endoscopy: Otoendoscopy, Urethrocystoscopy and Vaginoscopy
- Arthroscopy I
- Arthroscopy II
- Rigid Endoscopy: Laparoscopy
- Rigid Endoscopy: Ovariectomy and Ovariohysterectomy
- Rigid Endoscopy: Thoracoscopy
- An Introduction to Laser Endosurgery
Please note the module order may be subject to change
Qualifications
Our Small Animal Endoscopy & Endosurgery Programme offers a comprehensive array of structured learning, allowing you to gain new knowledge and skills to apply in your practice, or work towards earning a recognised qualification.
This programme is provided by Improve Veterinary Education in collaboration with the International School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ISVPS).
Complete all modules and be eligible to apply for the General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert) by purchasing and passing the required assessments with the International School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ISVPS).
The fees DO NOT include registration and exam fees to achieve a General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert) from ISVPS. If you intend to pursue this route, please contact ISVPS at english@isvps.org.
Venue: Nicosia, Cyprus
Date: Mar - Nov 2027
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Mar - Nov 2027
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
12 Modules
12 Practical sessions
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Course taught in English
Price From 9,900.00€ + VATTo see more information click here Check all prices
Get in touch
Accredited by
This course is accredited by ISVPS and allows you to achieve a General Practitioner Certificate
01 - Flexible Endoscopy: Respiratory Tract Examination and Therapeutic Techniques
Classroom/Practical
03/2027
Nicosia
- Discuss the indications for respiratory tract endoscopy
- The possible complications of respiratory tract endoscopy
- Patient preparation and general endoscopic technique for examination of upper and lower respiratory tracts
- Sample collection techniques
- Understand foreign body retrieval and feeding tube placement techniques
- Practise techniques using anatomical models
- Distinguish endoscopic appearance of nasal cavity, larynx, trachea and bronchi in health and disease
02 - Introduction to Flexible Endoscopy: Instrumentation, Basic Technique, Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Examination
Classroom/Practical
03/2027
Nicosia
- Understand the history and current applications of flexible endoscopy in human medicine and relate this to current veterinary practice
- Understand how to clean and care for flexible endoscopes
- Patient preparation and general endoscopic technique
- Discuss the indications for lower gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Understand the possible complications of lower gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Understand normal endoscopic appearance of ileum, colon, caecum and rectum
- Practice techniques using anatomical models
- Select instruments that are best suited to their individual practice and patients for a variety of endoscopic techniques including upper and lower GI endoscopy
- Discuss how to choose a suitable endoscope for GI endoscopy
- Demonstrate how to use a flexible endoscope
- Describe how to obtain samples from the GI tract
- Compare when lower gastrointestinal endoscopy is indicated and when other techniques may be preferable
- Describe methods and instrumentation to maximise the potential for gastric and oesophageal foreign body retrieval
- Identify the indications for feeding tube placement and describe optimal techniques and instrumentation for endoscopic placement
03 - Flexible Endoscopy: Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
Classroom/Practical
11/03/2027
Nicosia
- The possible complications of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Describe patient preparation for optimal examination technique for the upper gastrointestinal tract and general technique to enable a thorough examination including intubation of the pylorus
- Understand biopsy techniques
- Practise techniques using anatomical models
- Discuss when upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is indicated and when other techniques may be preferable. Describe what diagnostic procedures should be performed before Upper GI endoscopy
- Distinguish endoscopic appearance of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum in health and disease
04 - Introduction to Endoscopy and Endosurgery: Instrumentation
Classroom/Practical
09/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Describe the history and current applications of endoscopy in human surgery and relate this to current veterinary practice
- Describe and identify endoscopic instrumentation including rigid and flexible endoscopes, and compare the advantages and disadvantages of each
- Discuss the application of accessory instrumentation for rigid and flexible endoscopes
- Explain how electrosurgery is used in minimally invasive surgery and how this differs from open surgical techniques
- Explain how to clean and care for endoscopic equipment
- Select instruments that are best suited to their individual practice and patients for a variety of endoscopic techniques including bronchoscopy, rhinoscopy, urethrocystoscopy, video-otoscopy, arthroscopy, thoracoscopy and laparoscopy
- Discuss the incorporation of endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery into a veterinary practice
Speakers
To be confirmed
05 - Rigid Endoscopy: Basic Principles of Rhinoscopy and other 'Oscopies'
Classroom/Practical
09/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Identify the anatomy of the nasal meati and describe how to explore them endoscopically
- List the range of rigid endoscopic equipment available for examination of the upper respiratory tract and choose which is best suited to your patient
- List the indications for rigid rhinoscopy and any additional imaging techniques required
- Describe patient preparation for rigid rhinoscopy
- Demonstrate general endoscopic techniques for examination of the upper respiratory tract using a rigid endoscope
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of rigid vs flexible endoscopy in different areas of the upper respiratory tract
- Outline the importance of correct biopsy technique to get diagnostic samples
- Demonstrate how to examine the frontal sinuses
- Compare normal nasal appearance and common nasal pathology
- Describe how to recognise, diagnose and treat nasal aspergillosis
- Describe how to recognise, diagnose and treat nasopharyngeal stenosis
- Describe how to recognise, diagnose and treat nasal tumours including laser ablation for palliation
- Discuss other ‘oscopies’ including exotics, tracheoscopy, exploration of pharyngeal stick injuries, fistulae and bite wounds
- Demonstrate general endoscopic techniques for examination of the upper respiratory tract using a rigid endoscope, including biopsies, effectively in a wet-lab environment
Speakers
To be confirmed
06 - Rigid Endoscopy: Otoendoscopy, Urethrocystoscopy and Vaginoscopy
Classroom/Practical
09/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Identify the anatomy of the ear and in particular the sensitive structures of the middle ear.
- List the indications for otoendoscopy, and the advantages over traditional otoscopy
- Demonstrate proficiency at myringotomy and examination of the middle ear.
- Describe possible complications of otoendoscopy and outline post-operative treatment.
- List the indications for urethrocystoscopy and vaginoscopy in the dog and cat
- Demonstrate proficiency in general endoscopic techniques for urogenital tract examination in the dog and cat
- Compare the appearance of the urogenital tract in health and disease
- Describe options for minimally invasive treatment of conditions such as ectopic ureters, paramesonephric remnants, urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence, strictures and transitional cell carcinoma.
- Explain when to use the laparoscopic cystoscopy approach where transurethral access is not possible or adequate (i.e. for large stones, or in the dog or tom cat)
- Describe biopsy and sampling techniques and demonstrate these effectively in a wet lab environment
- Describe and select appropriate equipment for examination of the external ear canal and middle ear in all sizes of dogs and cats.
- Demonstrate proficiency at deep ear cleaning using video-otoscopy.
- Describe patient preparation for urethrocystoscopy
- Describe the normal endoscopic appearance of the vestibule, vagina, urethra and bladder
Speakers
To be confirmed
07 - Arthroscopy I
Classroom/Practical
09/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Describe the instrumentation necessary for arthroscopic procedures
- Describe common joint pathology in the elbow, stifle and shoulder joints and distinguish the endoscopic appearance of these joints in health and disease.
- List the indications for arthroscopy
- Describe patient preparation and the positioning and creation of portals for elbow, shoulder and stifle arthroscopy
- Demonstrate the above techniques in cadavers in a wet-lab environment
Speakers
To be confirmed
08 - Arthroscopy II
Classroom/Practical
09/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Demonstrate proficiency at arthroscopic examination of the elbow, shoulder and stifle joints in cadavers in a wet lab environment
- Demonstrate simple arthroscopic surgery of the elbow and shoulder
- Describe the possible complications of the above procedures
Speakers
To be confirmed
09 - Rigid Endoscopy: Laparoscopy
Classroom/Practical
11/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- List the indications for laparoscopy and describe the advantages and disadvantages of a minimally invasive technique vs open laparotomy.
- Describe patient preparation for laparoscopy.
- Explain the anaesthetic implications of abdominal insufflation and describe optimal insufflation techniques.
- Demonstrate Veress needle placement and insufflation in a wet lab environment
- Explain the principles of port placement for ergonomic instrument use and optimal tissue handling.
- Compare the normal endoscopic appearance of the abdominal cavity and its organs in health and disease.
- List the possible complications of laparoscopy
- Explain how to set appropriate flow rates and pressures for insufflation in different sized patients for initial port placement and during the procedure
- Demonstrate abdominal organ biopsy techniques (liver, pancreas, kidney, full thickness bowel and spleen) in a wet lab environment
- Describe laparoscopic surgical techniques for gastric or intestinal foreign body removal, cryptorchid castration, laparoscopic assisted splenectomy, cholecystocentesis and laparoscopic assisted cystoscopy and briefly describe the procedure for laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Describe laparoscopic surgical techniques for gastropexy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy for uncomplicated mucocoele
Speakers
To be confirmed
10 - Rigid Endoscopy: Ovariectomy and Ovariohysterectomy
Classroom/Practical
11/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Review the principles of haemostasis for laparoscopic surgery including electrosurgery, vessel sealing devices, clips and sutures
- Compare the advantages of ovariectomy vs ovariohysterectomy and define when it is necessary to remove the uterus.
- Compare the techniques for laparoscopic ovariectomy and ovariohysterectomy and demonstrate them in a wet lab environment.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of a single port, two port or three port technique for laparoscopic ovariectomy and describe the instrumentation required.
- List the possible complications of laparoscopic surgery.
- Discuss the financial viability of incorporating laparoscopic spays into private practice
Speakers
To be confirmed
11 - Rigid Endoscopy: Thoracoscopy
Classroom/Practical
11/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Review the instrumentation necessary for thoracoscopy procedures
- Describe the indications for diagnostic or therapeutic thoracoscopy
- Describe patient preparation and discuss anaesthetic techniques for thoracoscopic surgery
- Identify the approaches to the thoracic cavity, including positioning of telescope portals
- Describe the techniques for an exploratory thoracoscopy, lung and lymph node biopsies and pericardectomy and demonstrate these in a wet lab environment
- Describe the use of minimally invasive techniques for more advanced thoracic surgery such as lung lobectomy, mediastinal masses, PRAA, thoracic duct occlusion and pyothorax
- List the possible complications of thoracoscopy and describe how to deal with them.
- List the contraindications to thoracoscopy
Speakers
To be confirmed
12 - An Introduction to Laser Endosurgery
Classroom/Practical
11/2027
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
- Summarize a basic understanding of laser physics and principles of use including tissue interactions, contact and non-contact mode, continuous and pulsed
- Review the equipment available for laser surgery in animals.
- Describe how to perform laser debulking of tumours in the GI tract, nose and bladder as well as resection of ectopic ureters
- Describe the possible complications of laser surgery
- Demonstrate some of the above techniques in a wet-lab environment
- Discuss the use of lasers in conjunction with endoscopy and compare the use of diode lasers with Ho:Yag lasers
- Describe how to perform laser lithotripsy
Speakers
To be confirmed
Venue: Nicosia, Cyprus
Date: Mar - Nov 2027
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Mar - Nov 2027
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
12 Modules
12 Practical sessions
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Course taught in English
Price From 9,900.00€ + VATTo see more information click here Check all prices
Get in touch
Accredited by
This course is accredited by ISVPS and allows you to achieve a General Practitioner Certificate
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| Payment Option | First Payment | Second Payment(s) | Total Payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment In Full - Early Bird Price (30 days) (without ISVPS Exam) | 9,900.00€ | - | 9,900.00€ |
| Deposit and Remaining Balance - Early Bird Price (30 days) (without ISVPS Exam) | 990.00€ | 8,910.00€ | 9,900.00€ |
| Monthly Payments - Early Bird Price (30 days) (without ISVPS Exam) | 1,139.00€ | 854.00€ x 12 (monthly) | 11,387.00€ |
Payment Terms & Conditions
1. Payments can be made by ACH, credit or debit card, GooglePay and ApplePay.
2. Direct debit payments can be set up using a credit or debit card.
3. In certain circumstances, multiple booking and corporate discounts are available, please contact us on info.cy@improveinternational.com for further information.
4. To confirm your place, we must receive payment in full or the one defined in the invoice.
5. Please also see our full terms and conditions on our website – Terms and Conditions.
Registration Information
1. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first served basis.
2. Where all available places are full, applicants will be offered first refusal for the next available date.
3. Confirmation and enrollment details will then be sent to confirm your booking.
Venue: Nicosia, Cyprus
Date: Mar - Nov 2027
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Mar - Nov 2027
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
Nicosia
Improve International CY Practical Facilities
12 Modules
12 Practical sessions
GPCert in Small Animal Endoscopy and Endosurgery
Course taught in English
Price From 9,900.00€ + VATTo see more information click here Check all prices
Get in touch
Accredited by
This course is accredited by ISVPS and allows you to achieve a General Practitioner Certificate