UC Davis Veterinarians Travel To China To Teach Procedures

Dr. Andrew Burton discusses veterinary procedures with Chinese veterinarians Four veterinarians from the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine recently traveled to China to produce the inaugural International Small Animal Practice Symposium at Nanjing Agricultural University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Drs. Andrew Burton, Gina Davis, Jonathan Dear and Karl Jandrey traveled to Nanjing—located roughly 200 miles west of Shanghai—in January to complete the four-day continuing education (CE) seminar for a capacity crowd of 50 Chinese veterinarians. The UC Davis veterinarians discussed topics routinely encountered at the School's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. During each four-hour morning session, a different UC Davis veterinarian delivered a series of lectures focused on common issues and problems in small animal general practice, such as chronic renal failure, fluid therapy, respiratory distress and dermatologic disease. All four veterinarians taught alongside each other in four-hour afternoon laboratories. Small group, hands-on learning allowed for the application of techniques discussed in the morning lectures. Sample laboratory procedures included physical examination, bone marrow aspiration, endotracheal lavage, arthrocentesis and esophagostomy tube placement. This is the first overseas CE event conducted since Jandrey became director of UC Davis’ Center for Continuing Professional Education. With the success of this event and the need for more CE in underserved and developing regions of the world, Jandrey looks forward to producing more of these events. You can read more at http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/whatsnew/article.cfm?id=2846

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