Slides from a presentation I gave to a group of vets in Northern Ireland concerning the value of quality CPD in career development

1. What can the CertAVP and CPD do for your
career?
Anthony Chadwick BVSc CertVD MRCVS
The Webinar Vet

2. 1989

3. 2014

4. Why?
• What are you about?
• What do you want to achieve with your life, your
career etc?
• How are you going to get there?
• Is staying still an option?

5. Do you love what you do?

6. What is the CertAVP?
• A flexible modular approach to CPD
• A module+B module+4C modules=CertAVP
• Approximately 600 hours of study
• Supported by many of the universities

7. Advanced Veterinary Practitioner Status
• Old style certificate
• 250 hours of CPD over 5 years
• Module A
– Veterinary ethics
– Communications
– Decision making
– Research skills

8. RCVS webinar
• 30th September
• Kit Sturgess, Christine Warman, Duncan Ash
• http://www.thewebinarvet.com/rcvs-advanced-practitioner-
status

9. What other ways to study?
• Conferences
• Courses
• Evening meetings
• Online material
• Private reading
• Webinars

10. Why bother?
• 80/20 rule
• It helps to stoke up the fire of enthusiasm
• Makes you a better vet
• Raises up your profile and become an expert

11. Why should you want to become an expert?
• Do what you love!
• Get chosen instead of keep chasing
• Become a leader in the profession
• Be better paid

12. You don’t have to wait to be told
you are an expert!
• Promoting yourself in the local area
• Certificates
• Niche areas of interest
• Internet

13. Learning to learn in new ways
• webinars

14. Testimonials
Working part time with two small demanding children; an equally demanding husband; a variety of waifs and stray pets
and a crumbling old house to restore time is always of the essence. As the years have gone by I have become
increasingly eager to learn and love doing CPD ( initially I have to confess I felt it was a bit of a chore )
At one of the practices i work for the principal told me she had signed me up to become a "Webinar Vet". I was slow to
start but have a new laptop and now Antony Chadwick has become part of our family life. My husband has complained
on occasion that he even comes to bed with us !
If I am at home alone doing chores in one room instead of turning on the radio or TV I watch Webinars. They are great
as you can pause them if you are interrupted and re-watch them as many times as you like to jot down snippets of useful
information. I find them very user friendly and all in the comfort of my own home.
I have found myself learning about subjects that I would never otherwise have considered signing up for, paying for and
having to travel to. In the past I would attend the odd lecture and feel that it was a waste of a valuable evening but not
the case here as you can just turn it off ! Although, thankfully that has only occurred once..... and I shan’t tell you which
one !
My husband who is in the property business has commented on what a fabulous resource it is and feels his industry
would gratefully benefit from the equivalent.
Thank you Mr Chadwick and keep the webinars flowing!
Rachel Brown, Premier Vets

15. I’d like to say a big THANK YOU for my The Webinar Vet membership whilst I’ve been trying to
return from a career break. Access to such a lot of convenient, high quality, CPD has made all the
difference to me and enabled me to successfully return from a 7 year long career break (I’ve done
nearly 200hrs CPD in the last 18months!). After all that hard work I’ve just landed a lovely part-time
(2 days a week) job at a big, supportive practice and I started work last week. So I am writing to say
thank you very much for your great webinars!
Ellen Harmer MA VetMB MRCVS

16. A little present from The Webinar Vet
• Our virtual congress is coming up in January 2015
• Streams on dermatology, liver disease, GDV, diabetes,
DI, soft tissue surgery, ophthalmology
• www.theinternationalwebinarvet.com/NI
• Sign up before Friday at 5pm and get Alistair Gibson’s
interventional cardiology webinar free next week

17. Gorillas of Bwindi

18. Any Questions?