Form attached with details of cost and methods of payment

Yvonne

Brain Catchpole and Lucy Davidson are collaborating with a number of centres to investigate the genetic basis of several canine endocrine disorders.They are keen to recruit samples (serum and EDTA blood) from dogs suffering from the following disorders:

·        neonatal diabetes mellitus (i.e. diabetes onset < 1 yr of age)

·         diabetes in high risk breeds (Samoyed, Cairn terrier, Tibetan terrier, Polish Lowland Sheepdog)

·        dioestrus diabetes

·         lymphocytic thyroiditis / hypothyroidism

·        hypoadrenocorticism

Further details can be found in the WIKI of the SAMSOC website

Other  projects posted on the SAMSOC website

Stijn Nelson’s Diabetes Treatment Survey for vets, nurses and owners – further details for case recruitment can be found in the WIKI

If you would like to announce recruitment details for a clinical trial, please logo onto to the SAMSoc Wiki or contact a member of the SAMSOC committee.

Feline Chronic Kidney Disease: Use of oral phosphate binders -

Harriet Syme and Colleagues RVC

As part of ongoing research into Feline Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) at the Royal Veterinary College, and the Clinical Investigation Centre (CIC) is working with an animal health company to verify the efficacy of a novel palatable phosphate binder that will hopefully proceed to drug registration.

Recruited cases with be entitled to free diagnostic tests including initial ultrasound, serial biochemistry, urinalysis, blood pressure analysis and fundic examination. In addition to comprehensive investigation of renal disease by internal medicine clinicians with a special interest in this field

Voucher  will also be provided to assist with ongoing care at the referring practice

Further details ( including contacts) about the project can be found in the WIKI of the SAMSOC website

Other  projects posted on the SAMSOC website ( within the Wiki)

·         Brain Catchpole and Lucy Davidson are collaborating with a number of centres to investigate the genetic basis of several canine endocrine disorders. They are keen to recruit samples (serum and EDTA blood) from dogs suffering from a number of endocrine disorders – see wiki section

·         Stijn Nelson’s Diabetes Treatment Survey for vets, nurses and owners – further details for case recruitment can be found in the WIKI

NOTE- If you would like to announce recruitment details for a clinical trial, please logo onto to the SAMSoc Wiki or contact a member of the SAMSOC committee.

Feedback Form Responses pre-BSAVA Satellite Meeting SAMSOC 2009

Below you will find feedback from people attending the 2009 SAMSOC satellite meeting. You'll find that the great majority of people had a great day. We hope to use positive and negative comments to make the 2010 meeting even more worthwhile! Do you still want to provide feedback? (even if you did not attend, i.e. why not?), please drop a line on: sniessen@rvc.ac.uk or simply respond to this news item on this website, by hitting the reply button.

Regards,

SAMSOC Programme Committee

Administration/facilities:                                                            Responses                                          (%)

Registration procedure

1.       Poor                                                                                      0                                                              0%

2.       Adequate                                                                            0                                                              0%

3.       Good                                                                                     7/22                                                       32%

4.       Excellent                                                                              15/22                                                     68%

Lecture room facilities

1.       Poor                                                                                      0                                                              0%

2.       Adequate                                                                            5/22                                                       23%

3.       Good                                                                                     13/22                                                     59%

4.       Excellent                                                                              4/22                                                       18%

Comments: too cold (6/22), noisy at times (1/22), chairs too close to screen (1/22), liked set-up with tables more (1/22)

Quality and quantity of refreshments

1.       Poor                                                                                      0                                                              0%

2.       Adequate                                                                            1/22                                                       4.5%

3.       Good                                                                                     11/22                                                     50%

4.       Excellent                                                                              9/22                                                       41%

Comments: nice biscuits (1/22); excellent lunch (1/22), cold tea (1/22)

Value for money

1.       Poor                                                                                      0                                                              0%

2.       Adequate                                                                            0                                                              0%

3.       Good                                                                                     9/22                                                       41%

4.       Excellent                                                                              13/22                                                     59%

Programme/lectures

1.       Thoracic CT

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     8/22                       36%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              13/22                     59%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     7/22                       32%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              14/22                     64%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     10/22                     45%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              9/22                       41%

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     8/22                       36%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              13/22                     59%

Comments: 1/22: very educational and helpful to have images

2.       Thoracoscopy for medics

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     9/22                       41%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              13/22                     59%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     11/22                     50%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              10/22                     45%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     17/22                     77%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              4/22                       18%

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            6/22`                      27%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     7/22                       32%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              8/22                       36%

Comments: 1/22 excellent images of thoracoscopy

3.       Case reports

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     15/22                     68%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              4/22                       18%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     14/22                     64%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              4/22                       18%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      n/a

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            n/a

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     n/a

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              n/a

Comments: 1/22: would like notes for this as well

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     8/22                       36%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              10/22                     44%

4.       Current management of diabetes mellitus in people

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            2/22                       9%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     12/22                     55%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              7/22                       32%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     7/22                       32%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              14/22                     64%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      n/a

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            n/a

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     n/a

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              n/a

Comments: 8/22: notes poor since missing

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            1/22                       5%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     10/22                     45%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              11/22                     50%

Comments: 1/22: very interesting

5.       A logical approach to changed mental status

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     1/22                       5%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              20/22                     91%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     2/22                       9%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              19/22                     86%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     4/22                       18%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              15/22                     68%

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            0                              0%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     3/22                       14%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              18/22                     82%

Comments: 1/22: Really excellent; 1/22: excellent presentation and case studies

6.       Interpretation of bone marrow cytology

a.       Delivery

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            7/22                       32%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     3/22                       14%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              12/22                     55%

b.      Content

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            5/22                       23%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     9/22                       41%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              8/22                       36%

c.       Notes

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            3/22                       14%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     11/22                     50%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              6/22                       27%

Comments: 1/22: very entertaining!

d.      Good choice for program?

                                                               i.      Poor                                                                                      0                              0%

                                                             ii.      Adequate                                                                            3/22                       14%

                                                            iii.      Good                                                                                     11/22                     50%

                                                           iv.      Excellent                                                                              8/22                       36%       

Comments: 1/22: very entertaining, excellent pictures of cytology; very helpful; 1/22: good choice for program but turned into a list

General individual comments

1.       I wonder if too many topics were quite specialist this year; ie maybe great for us academics but not so attractive for practitioners?

2.       Later start (10am – or even 9.30am); reduced registration fees for interns/residents; no lunch in place of reduced rate

3.       Really liked the human presentations; please continue with this tradition

4.       Might be worth concentrating on 1 or 2 themes for the day? Consider shorter talks? 45 minutes long enough per speaker?

5.       Enjoy the human presentation and comparative aspect – please continue this tradition! Excellent day – thank you!

6.       Superb meeting, all the practical tips and information were really useful and the speakers were all excellent – more of the same standard next year please!

7.       Appropriately pitched for medicine certificate level, would be great to have a specialist day.

8.       Initially dubious about the heterogeneous nature of the lectures but actually it worked very well. The case reports are a very good thing – enjoyable to give residents a forum to present cases.

Stijn Niessen 26 June 2009

Please see attached file for information on submitting clinical research abstracts for BSAVA 2010

Deadline for submissions is October 29th

The SAMSOC committee is please to announce that Vetoquinol has agreed to sponser next years case report competition.

The competition will have a similar format to last year with audience voting deciding the winners from the 3 choosen finalists

1st -£300

2nd -£150

3rd - £50

We will circulate more details later in the year but in the mean time keep an eye out for suitable cases

Ian

Just as a reminder  i have pasted below  from our SAMSOC WIKI the studies that recruiting cases 

If you have a project you would like to post in the wiki drop me a line ( iab@vetspecialists.co.uk) and i can sort it out for you.

As before i will send a list of all projects around to members from time to time (Just to keep them relatively fresh in peoples minds).

All the best

Ian

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CVS has launched ‘Further surgical skills for the General Practitioner’ a course designed to help new graduate vets develop their confidence and competence performing commonplace surgical procedures.

The one-day course covers a variety of procedures, from forelimb, hindlimb and tail amputations, to enucleations and simple eyelid mass removals.

Graduates will also begin learning about the use of basic skin flaps to close larger wounds.

They will also be taught how to recognise a patient requiring urgent or emergency care and initiate evaluation and management. 

Sarah Rutherford, Head of Clinical Education at CVS, said: “When we spoke to our graduates, they told us that they were keen for us to run this course, so that they could build experience and confidence in these common procedures, post their university and extra mural training.

“These are GP procedures. So, thinking about contextualised care, we felt it was important for all of our companion animal veterinary General Practitioners to offer these treatment options - no matter how many years they’d been practicing.

"It’s great to empower our new graduates to conduct these salvage-type procedures - rather than book them in with experienced, certified and advanced vets, or even a referrals specialist.

“It was also important for us to have GP vets Frances and Andy teaching our new surgical GP course, as they appreciate the challenges and practicalities of first opinion practice (FOP).

"It hopefully shows the opportunities that are available in teaching within CVS for all of our general practitioners.”

Hannah Spooner BVSc MRCVS, New Graduate Programme Lead said: "I recently took at poll at the Cambridge AVS congress this spring and this course came out on top - as the course students would ‘most be looking forward to’ if they were to join the CVS New graduate programme in the future. So that’s very encouraging to know!”

www.careerswithcvs.co.uk

MSD is hosting a free one-hour webinar which will explore the clinical and practical challenges vets face when recommending vaccination as part of a wider scour control programme, at 4pm on Wednesday 3rd September 2025

The webinar, which is exclusively for veterinary professionals, will include a Q&A session addressing common concerns around vaccination timing, use in Johne’s-positive herds, the role of extended colostrum feeding, and the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance.

Speakers for the event are:

• Dr Kat Baxter-Smith, Veterinary Advisor, MSD – The real cost of cryptosporidiosis
• Professor Dirk Werling, Royal Veterinary College – Antimicrobial resistance in calf health
• Dr Katie Denholm, University of Glasgow – Calf immunity and extended colostrum feeding strategies
• Peter Orpin, Chair, Technical Group, Action Group Johne’s – Navigating Johne’s and vaccination

Kat Baxter-Smith, Veterinary Advisor at MSD Animal Health (pictured), said: “Vaccination has an important role to play in cryptosporidiosis control, but we know that for some practices, concerns remain — particularly around colostrum management and use in herds with Johne’s.

“This session is about opening up those discussions, sharing the latest research, and addressing the barriers that may be holding back wider adoption.

"Our aim is to support vets in moving scour management from reaction to prevention.”

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