Diagnostic Imaging: Thoracic Distance Education
Key information
Improve your diagnostic skills and avoid common mistakes in thoracic diagnosis.
Thoracic radiography, despite being a cornerstone in clinical veterinary diagnostics, often presents significant challenges and common pitfalls. This course is tailored to enhance your skills in producing and interpreting optimal thoracic radiographs. You'll delve into detailed radiographic interpretation, supported by the integration of complementary imaging techniques such as CT and sonography. These modalities play a critical role in clarifying radiographic findings and elucidating pathological patterns.
The curriculum covers a wide range of species, including dogs, cats, and exotics, enriched with tutor-written notes, case studies, and quizzes to deepen your understanding. Engage actively in online forums and tutorials and apply your skills at the optional 1-day workshop with direct guidance from your tutors.
This course is designed for practitioners with some background in radiography, aiming to build upon your existing knowledge. It also includes a self-paced introductory section to review essential prerequisites, ensuring all participants are prepared for advanced topics.
Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, you will:
- Enhance your knowledge and expertise in the technical aspects of veterinary radiography that contribute to image formation.
- Improve your understanding of radiological practices as they apply to thoracic structures.
- Develop a deeper comprehension of the radiographic signs of pathological processes affecting the cardiac and respiratory systems.
- Enhance your ability to evaluate radiographic changes involving the mediastinal structures and the pleural space.
- Understand when to utilise complementary imaging studies such as sonography and CT for the diagnosis and management of systemic and cardiothoracic diseases.
Modules
- The Heart & Vessels: Explore the intricacies of cardiovascular imaging.
- The Respiratory System: Delve into the diagnostic challenges of the lungs and airways.
- The Pleural Space, Mediastinum & Diaphragm: Understand the complexities of these critical regions.
Diagnostic Imaging Program
This course is part of our year-long Diagnostic Imaging Program which has been broken down into 3 more manageable parts: Abdominal, Musculoskeletal and Thoracic Imaging.
Each is a discrete unit on its own but together they form a formidable Imaging educational program.
The other units are:
Diagnostic Imaging: Musculoskeletal, commencing June 2024
Diagnostic Imaging: Abdominal, commencing September 2024
Course Delivery
This online course provides a robust educational package, tailored to enhance your expertise in veterinary thoracic diagnostic imaging:
- Comprehensive Learning Materials: Gain access to extensive digital notes and high-quality images that cover a broad spectrum of thoracic conditions.
- Interactive Learning Opportunities: Engage in self-assessed quizzes designed to test your knowledge and deepen your understanding of thoracic imaging. Participate in active discussion forums where you can converse, debate, and share challenging cases with peers and tutors.
- Continuous Assessment: Complete case-based monthly assignments that focus on improving your technical and interpretative skills.
- Monthly Tutorials: Attend scheduled tutorials to review your assignments and discuss module content in-depth, ensuring you grasp and apply the learning objectives effectively.
- Practical Application Workshop: Participate in a 1-day intensive workshop where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to practical situations.
Workshop
This distance education course includes an optional 1-day workshop held in Sydney. The date of the workshop is to be advised.
What is Distance Education?
Premium, intensive online veterinary CE
All CVE Distance Education (DE) programs are mentored by leading veterinary experts who will provide individual feedback and advice on completion of each monthly module. Each module may include written content, technique videos, self-reflections, quizzes and online submission of monthly assignments.
Maximise the opportunity to expand and consolidate your learning by participating in the tutor moderated group discussion forum and attending the optional 1-day interactive workshop, with an emphasis on working through case studies and group discussion.
Who should enrol?
This course is ideal for qualified veterinarians looking to expand their expertise in diagnostic imaging.
Tutor
Belinda Hopper