AAEP New Practitioner's Symposium
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If you are an AAEP member, have graduated in the past ten years (2012-2021) and are seeking new skills to grow your career, accelerate your learning during the AAEP New Practitioners Symposium, Feb. 19–20, 2022, at the University of Florida.
The program combines two days of highly focused wet labs and virtual education to provide up to 60 early-career veterinarians with an engaging, meaningful and affordable hands-on learning opportunity. You’ll return home with new knowledge and skills that can be put to immediate use.
Symposium Format
The Symposium will use a “flipped classroom” model in which attendees refresh their foundational knowledge by completing relevant instructional material at home prior to the event, so that in-person time is devoted to experiential learning through skills application and analysis.
Here’s how it will work: At least one month prior to the in-person meeting, registrants will be provided digital resources through an online Learning Management System in the form of PowerPoint recordings, scientific papers and instructional videos on the subject matter of the wet labs. Registrants will complete pre-meeting quizzes to ensure understanding and to qualify for CE credits.
When on-site in Gainesville, attendees will rotate in groups of 20 through three 90-minute wet labs each afternoon. Each lab will have up to five instructors to provide optimal hands-on training for each registrant.
Saturday Wet Labs:
- Flash Colic Ultrasound
- Ultrasound of the Metacarpus/Metatarsus
- Radiology of the Skull (Sinus & Teeth)
Sunday Wet Labs:
- Podiatry: Films and Common Conditions
- Ophthalmology (Exams, Diagnostics)
- Ultrasound of the Stifle
Supplementing afternoon wet labs will be a series of 15-minute discussions on pertinent medical situations (in a “how-to” format) and important non-medical aspects of successful practice on Saturday morning; and business round table sessions on Sunday morning in which attendees can move between tables and discuss topics such as starting a practice, navigating parenthood in practice, managing student debt and more.
Lodging:
More information to come.
Cost:
$400 for the entire (virtual and hands-on) event.
Virtual-only option not available.
Please note we are not currently able to offer a student discount.
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