Building the Wellness Team - Phoenix, AZ
Course Date: September 12, 2009VTEC is offering a one day program in clinical pathology and building the wellness team. The goal of the program is to develop an interactive continuing education experience on how to develop and implement hospital wellness programs, how to market the programs and educate clients, and how to help veterinary practices evaluate ways of making wellness affordable for their clients. The program format would be an eight-hour interactive program where participants would be placed into virtual teaching hospitals and based on lecture and case studies, team members would develop wellness programs for age groups, species, and animals with disease history. The participants would go through the steps of how to implement their program, how to market these programs, how to evaluate success and measure return on investment, how to educate clients on the benefits of clinical wellness, and how to counsel clients as to best manage risk in terms of preventive care and cost. By the completion of the program participants should be able to:
• Improve doctor and staff knowledge and skill regarding wellness
• Evaluate and coach doctors and staff on properly developing wellness programs
• Evaluate and coach doctors and staff on properly promoting clinical wellness
• Develop marketing/client education programs to expand wellness programs for all ages and species.
• Clearly understand options for making wellness affordable for all clients
The program format would be 8 hours of interactive lecture and case study. Each participant would be placed in a virtual teaching hospital to experience the steps to develop in-hospital wellness programs. The schedule would be as follows:
• Lecture I: Approaches to understanding and evaluating the Complete Blood Count: The course will review the physiology and anatomy of red and white blood cells and platelets, discuss cell abnormalities and how they relate to disease, and discuss the importance of the blood film differential. The course will further discuss how to educate the client on the importance and the need of this diagnostic. (2 hours)
• Lecture II: Approaches to understanding and evaluating Clinical Chemistry: The course will review the physiology and anatomy of the renal, hepatic and pancreatic systems; discuss abnormalities in clinical diagnostics and how they relate to disease, and effective monitoring of the well and ill patient. Further blood pressure and hypertension will be fully discussed. The course will further discuss how to educate the client on the importance and the need of these diagnostics. (2 hours)
• Lecture III: Cardiology and the Electrocardiogram: The lecture will review the anatomy and physiology of the heart and discuss physical symptoms and clinical changes in the patient with heart disease. The lecture will also focus on evaluation of the patient for cardiac arrhythmias using the Electrocardiogram. The course will further discuss how to educate the client on the importance and the need of this diagnostic. (2 hours)
• Lecture IV: Endocrine Disease: The lecture will review anatomy and physiology of the thyroid and adrenal glands discuss diseases associated with hormonal dysfunction, understand clinical diagnostics to evaluate hormonal disease, and outline how to present these concerns and educate the client. (2 hours)
• Lecture VI: Implementing Wellness: The program will discuss how to specifically develop and implement a clinical wellness program. The lecture will focus on how to develop training for the hospital team, produce tools for the team, produce evaluatory metrics, and ensuring client follow up. (1 hour)
Class Size: Since this is an interactive workshop, this course should be held to 45-50 participants maximum.
Upon Completion of the Course:
1. Team members should understand resource and training needs for implementing a thorough wellness program.
2. Team members will have the tools to assess their practice and evaluate if the hospital is optimizing wellness.
3. Team members will go through approach guidelines how to implement training, tools for success and evaluation measures to maximize a new wellness program.
4. Team members will be able to educate clients about wellness care and its benefits and affordability.
Program speakers would be:
Dr. Sharon M Dial, DVM, PHD, Diplomate ACVP (Clinical and Anatomic Pathology), received a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology from the Montana State University. She then received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a Doctorate in Pathology from Colorado State University. Dr. Dial has been both a working pathologist as well as an active instructor at University of Wisconsin and Louisiana State University. She also has been a clinical pathologist for Animal Diagnostic Lab in Tucson, Ariz., and Antech Diagnostics. Dr. Dial is currently an Associate Research Scientist, Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology at University of Arizona.
Andrew J. Rosenfeld, DVM, Diplomate ABVP. Dr. Rosenfeld is the founder and president of VTEC and has spoken on numerous occasions on topics in Emergency Medicine, Small Animal Anatomy and Physiology, and Cardiology. Dr. Rosenfeld was Director of Technical Education for the Pet’s Choice family of veterinary hospitals and specialty practices. He has practiced small animal critical care and emergency medicine for 18 years, and served as hospital director of Paradise Valley Emergency Animal Clinic in Scottsdale for three years. Dr. Rosenfeld is a member of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners and was an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College and Arizona State University. Dr Rosenfeld is also authoring a text for veterinary hospitals called The Veterinary Team Handbook from Blackwell Press. Dr. Rosenfeld is co-authoring a textbook in clinical pathology called Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team (Blackwell – 2009).
The course includes course notebook and a light lunch offering. The course will be on Saturday, September 12, 2009 in Phoenix, AZ. Eight CE hours are pending approval by the American Board of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB – Race). The cost of the program is $150 up to 8/31/09 and $175 on or after 8/31/09. Please make checks payable to VTEC or register on-line. Send all check registrations to VTEC, 29213 N 148th St, Scottsdale, Az 85262. For any inquiries, please call Dr. Andrew J Rosenfeld at 480-570-0429.
If you would prefer to fax in your registration, please download our brochure and fax it to (480) 452-1976. Payment can be mailed to VTEC, 29213 North 148th Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85262. Registration is not confirmed until payment is received.
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 02 January, 2009.