ivpdblog

Don’t miss the IVPD’s 2012 Congress and Workshops

IVPD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:19:04 +0000

Once again, the IVPD brings you the opportunity to hear one of the foremost international speakers on the business of veterinary practice. Dr John Sheridan has more than 50 years experience in the industry. Delegates at the two-day Congress in Gauteng and the one day Workshops in Durban and Cape Town will be exposed to a host of ideas, suggestions, challenges and new thinking from inside and outside the veterinary industry. They will receive full documentation as hard copy or in electronic format and take home a number of business tools to use in their own practices. An additional bonus is the opportunity to take part in a free benchmark service that really works where your practice can be compared with the median and with the lower and upper quartiles of all the participating practices plus receiving an email reports comparing your practice’s performance against other practices.

Diarize the dates now to be sure not to miss out on attending the best ever IVPD Congress and Workshops in your area:

Durban 4^th May, 2012 Cape Town 8^th May, 2012 Gauteng 11 and 12^th May, 2012

Registration will open in February 2012 so check the IVPD website www.ivpd.co.za to take advantage of Early Bird discounts offering huge savings in registration fees. Practice owners, clinicians, managers, support staff members and suppliers to the veterinary profession will all benefit enormously from attending and participating in the IVPD Workshops and Congress.

The IVPD will persist in their firm belief that business and financial presentations fully deserve to be recognised by the SAVC and calls for the support of the entire veterinary industry in South Africa to assist in their efforts to obtain structured CPD points for business and financial related presentations

IVPD — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:04:51 +0000

URGENT APPEAL TO ALL

CALL TO SUPPORT THE PETITION for the granting of CPD points for IVPD Business Congresses and Workshops

Click here to read more and sign the petition…

Structured CPD Points for IVPD Business and Financial Congresses and Workshops – are we still in the dark ages and out of touch with the rest of the world?

IVPD — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:13:24 +0000

The SAVC is lagging behind the rest of the world (USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, to name a few) in recognising the importance, especially in these tough economic times, of running a veterinary practice according to sound business principles. Your Institute has, since 2008, brought new and innovative thinking to both IVPD members and the veterinary industry as a whole by holding annual business and financial congresses and workshops run by highly regarded local and international presenters. Whilst it is recognised that offering medical expertise of the highest order to clients is vital, unless a practice is run using all the latest tools available to ensure maximum profitability, it will never reach its full financial potential and may indeed fail completely!

The SAVC has once again turned down the IVPD’s request for the granting of structured CPD points for business related Congresses and Workshops despite granting CPD points for attendance at business management lectures at the 2011 World Congress recently held in Cape Town.

This begs the question – why does the SAVC grant structured CPD points for other practice management presentations and yet resolutely refuses to acknowledge the contribution made by the IVPD to improve and grow practices in South Africa?

Their explanation that there are sufficient opportunities to gain CPD points already and therefore business related presentations need only be given unstructured points is a weak argument at best!

The IVPD will never give up their firm belief that business and financial presentations fully deserve to be recognised by the SAVC and calls for the support of the veterinary industry in South Africa to lobby the SAVC for structured CPD points for business and financial related congresses to enable the Institute to continue to introduce leaders in their field to present at their annual congresses and workshops.