Rabbit Clinics
This interactive workshop aims to provide you with a deeper insight into rabbit’s needs, enabling you to create species and condition-specific rabbit clinics. It will also give you a range of tips and ideas that you can use to grow and bond with your rabbit client base.
Veterinary professionals are perfectly placed to provide owners with a wealth of preventative healthcare information to rabbit owners but this can be tricky to do without overwhelming them. This course will focus on some different approaches to clinics suitable for rabbits and their owners, and how best to structure them.
We will look at the fundamental aspects, such as performing a general health check and understanding what is ‘normal’ for this species, discussing diet and environmental needs with your clients, and useful clinic approaches such as pre-purchase and pre-operation appointments. We will also include discussion of multi-modal and telemedicine options as well as the more traditional ‘in house’ visits.
A range of educational tools will be explored and discussed and this will touch on notice boards, newsletters and the use of social media.
Topics covered on this workshop include:
Clinic Planning
Paperwork
Staff
Training
Marketing
Timescales
Rabbit Friendly?
Husbandry
Diet
Enclosure
Bonding
Handling
Stress Reduction
General Health Check
Weight Clinics
Body Condition Scoring
Muscle Condition Scoring
Senior Clinics
Common Problems
Seasonal Clinics
Summer
Winter
Preventative Medicine
Vaccination
Neutering
Flystrike
Heat Stroke
Dental Check-ups
Common Symptoms
Otoscopic Visualization
Pre-purchase appointments
Workshop resources include:
- Access to our flexible online learning environment for the duration of the course
- Informative narrated lecture/s that can be viewed at any time, and as many times as you like
- Interactive, tutor-guided learning forums
- Multiple supporting materials, tools and ideas for assisting with and supporting your clinics
- The option to produce practical documents created by you, tailored to the needs of your practice
- Access to the course materials for a period after the course
Course duration: 1 week (4 hours flexible/self-directed study time in total)
Course type: Fully supported interactive online workshop
Tutor: Jo Hinde
Suitable for: Vet nurses, students and vets.
This workshop is suitable for those already running clinics and those wanting to improve existing clinics. Practice managers and partners who want to drive some new ideas into clinics will also benefit.
