What is the right CPD for your veterinary career?

Finding CPD is easy, but sourcing a suitable option can be the issue. The perfect course must fit in with a schedule as busy as a border collie’s mind, work for a budget as small as a rabbit’s ulna and is only a horse ride’s length away. So where do you start?

At the Improve International Group, we have a few solutions that can help you meet your annual CPD targets.

Training with Improve Veterinary Education

We know that veterinary surgeons and nurses are eager to develop their knowledge, and we love to see it!
That’s why we have several postgraduate training courses designed just for veterinary professionals.

Our training programmes for nurses cover several different clinical areas: anaesthesia, schedule 3 surgery , dentistry, surgical nursing, emergency and critical care, transfusion medicine…the list goes on! Plus, courses are delivered either face to face, online or as short courses for greater learning flexibility.

Veterinary surgeons also have all of these learning options available. In fact, vets can get advanced training or take on an accelerated programme to fast track their learning over a shorter period of time. There’s a wide selection of clinical subjects just for these professionals too, including small animal medicine, small animal surgery, feline practice, dermatology, neurology, emergency medicine surgery, exotic animal practice…you get the idea. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

With all of these training courses, the entire practice can benefit because you can apply all that you know into real life with your team. After all, sharing is caring.
For the equine fanatics, we’re working with the Cambridge Equine Hospital for a month-long online short course called the Equine Oncology semester in June. Anna Hollis, Daria Coleridge and Sarah Voss have crafted the lessons and you’ll get 12 CPD hours at the end. Get the latest straight from the horse’s mouth, as they say!

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Qualifications with ISVPS

The International School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ISVPS) accredits all Improve Veterinary Education training programmes and awards qualifications, so you have something world-class to show for your efforts. It has over 5,700 alumni since 2003 and works to ensure the academic rigor of both its qualifications and the training courses. Its International Examining Board comprises of more than 70 worldwide veterinary specialists and diplomates and its Academic Board, made up of 10 specialists in different disciplines, ensures the highest integrity of its qualifications.
For nurses, you can earn an ISVPS Nurse Certificate (NCert) or ISVPS Veterinary Paraprofessional Certificate (VPPCert).

For vets, you can achieve an ISVPS General Practitioner Certificate (GPCert) or even an ISVPS Advanced General Practitioner Certificate (GPAdvCert) if you take one of the above-mentioned advanced courses.
But what happens after you earn one of these qualifications? What do you do afterwards? Well, a new points-based pathway has been introduced so you can plan your career progression over a number of years, set achievable targets and give structure to your training.
The pathway for nurses is called My Veterinary Nurse Career and if you gain enough points, you earn the highest qualification – ISVPS Lead Veterinary Nurse Practitioner.
For vets, this pathway is named My Veterinary Career and works the same. If you earn enough points, you can also get the highest qualification for vets in general practice – ISVPS Master General Practitioner.
Investing in your future as veterinary professional will make the learning and exams you do today even more gratifying when you see how far you’ve advanced in years to come. How good does that sound?

News and resources with Improve Veterinary Practice

So, you’ve found your CPD training, and you’ve passed all the exams to get your shiny new ISVPS qualification, but now you need to still stay up to date with the latest discoveries without making your head explode with information. Sounds like a lot! Luckily for you, we understand the struggles of Keeping Up With The Industry (we can’t tell you how to make a bichon frise look like Kim K while it’s still spaced out with anaesthesia from its dental procedure, but we can tell you pretty much everything else).

Improve Veterinary Practice provides reliable, useful and interesting news written by expert authors and covers small animal, large animal, equine and practice management sectors of the veterinary surgeon and nursing professions. It’s great for staying up to date with how the veterinary industry is evolving and how the sector is adapting to new medical findings.
We can also provide a subscription-based membership charged annually to help you tackle your yearly CPD targets in smaller chunks. You can earn CPD hours by simply reading articles, watching recorded lectures and engaging with all it has to offer. The growing resource hub gives you quick and easy access to vet-verified, high quality content on a range of topics – gone are the days of trying to find a scientifically sketchy YouTube video on the spot.

All three of our professional partners are part of the wider Improve International Group. Together, we’re here to support your lifelong learning journey and provide innovative CPD learning to veterinary professionals everywhere.

To find out more, visit improveinternational.com.