Regular further training is one of the duties of every veterinarian and serves as quality assurance for the work on animals, which is documented every year in part via a special ATF points programme of the Federal Veterinary Chamber. Only in this way can current research and new working approaches be incorporated into everyday practice, ensuring optimized therapies with the best possible results and healing processes.

Against this backdrop, the Hanse Equine Hospital together with Arno Lindner from the Horse Workgroup in Jülich invited 16 veterinarians from all over Germany to Sittensen. They had registered for a three-day weekend seminar on equine eye therapies from 13 to 15 May 2022 in order to intensively further their education in the company of colleagues.

In addition to an extensive theoretical part, the participants were given numerous opportunities to put what they had learned into practice: In small groups, they carried out their own examinations on individual patients on site as well as on specimens, such as vitrecomia, keratecomia, flap and much more. . They were guided and accompanied by Dr Stephan Leser and Dr Kirstin Brandt (both from the Hanse Equine Hospital) and Dr Stefan Gesell-May (Equine Clinic in Parsdorf).

“As veterinarians, we are usually too busy with our patients in our everyday professional lives to be able to concentrate on important and prescribed further training in parallel. Special training events like these bring the necessary peace and quiet for targeted learning success. Therefore, we also regularly rely on external knowledge transfer for our own staff. We are pleased to have found a renowned partner in Arno Lindner and the Horse Workgroup, with whom we will be able to offer high-quality further training in various disciplines of equine medicine in the future,” says Dr. Kirstin Brandt, Head Senior Physician at the Hanse Clinic for Horses.