2025 Surgery Summit: Submit your laboratory ideas!
ACVS is calling on Diplomates to consider sharing your expertise and skills by facilitating practical hands-on training for veterinary professionals.
Thanks to the valuable feedback from ACVS Diplomates and residents, ACVS is accepting proposals for full-day, half-day, and hybrid laboratories for the 2025 Surgery Summit. Hybrid laboratories will combine virtual didactic sessions with in-person hands-on training.
Feedback indicates a strong level of interest in the topics listed below. To best meet the expressed educational needs, we encourage laboratory submissions in a variety of areas including, but not limited to:
Large animal: upper airway surgery, tenoscopic bursoscopic surgery, fracture fixation and repair, and equine sinus surgery
Small animal: anesthesia scenarios, fracture fixation and reduction techniques, needle arthroscopy, interlocking nail, advanced minimally invasive, and advanced abdominal surgery
Technician: suturing, arthroscopy/laparoscopy equipment set up/troubleshooting; anesthesia line placement, proper OR conduct of circulating nurses and tips for acting as surgical assistants, and sterilization techniques
Laboratory chairs must be ACVS Diplomates and identify instructors that will ensure the highest level of instruction available. Laboratory instructors can be Diplomates or non-Diplomates with expertise in a particular clinical or research area.
Please review the Laboratory Chair Protocol and submit your proposal. The proposal will not be considered if the form is incomplete.
The deadline to submit proposals is November 3, 2024. The Continuing Education Committee Laboratory Subcommittee will review each proposal and notify Diplomates of the outcome no later than November 15, 2024.
