CSU Veterinary Continuing Education

Are you ready to handle complex surgical cases with total confidence? Our next-level surgery courses ensure you are prepared when it matters most—whether managing acute trauma, intricate wound care, or surgical solutions for chronic diseases.

Through immersive, real-world scenarios, you will master rapid and safe patient prep and induction. You will also develop the skills to translate knowledge into instinct by building muscle memory in our hands-on lab. Upon completion of the course, you will return to your practice better ready to handle stressful surgeries and navigate unexpected intraoperative challenges.

Our Sept. surgery courses still have early bird pricing! Save $200 now.

Register now: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

We all know that barriers to referrals exist for some clients. Expand your service wheelhouse with our introductory orthopedic courses. Hybrid options offer valuable pre-course modules on diagnosis, case selection, and intraoperative decision-making before your hours of hands-on training in our teaching lab.

Return to your practice more confident in offering these services to clients and helping your patients have healthier and more active lives.

Early bird pricing still applies for many August courses!

Register now: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule

⏰ Don't miss out on early bird pricing for our August courses in small animal and equine medicine! Save $200 off registration throughout May.

Register now at https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

🪡 To help build your muscle memory and steel your nerves in the operating room, we've designed surgery courses with hours of intensive, hands-on training. Feel more confident when you return to your practice, ready with your new skills and better prepared to treat your patients when general surgery is needed.

✅ Improve your patient's mobility by reducing pain and stabilizing the stifle joint with Surgical Correction of Patellar Luxation. After 7.5 hours in our lab, this procedure will go from daunting to doable.

✅ Elevate your abdominal surgery skills with Next Level Soft Tissue Surgery: Advanced Abdominal Surgery. With 13 hours of lab time, you'll leave this course ready to perform gastropexy, cholecystectomy, splenectomy, and diaphragmatic hernia procedures.

✅ Help your patients recover from mass removals and traumatic wounds with Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for the Small Animal Surgeon. Over the 7 hours of lab time, you'll develop the necessary skills to complete simple and complex reconstructive procedures involving the head, trunk, and extremities.

✅ If you're a general or emergency practitioner who wants to feel more confident and capable handling emergency cases requiring surgical and anesthetic interventions, the 15 hours of lab time in Emergency, Peri-Operative, and Surgical Management of Critical Patients is for you. We'll guide your through real-world scenarios and teach you how to prep and induce patients quickly and safely.

Register now at: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

✅ Another Advanced Cardiology Review is in the books!

Directed by Dr. Brian Scansen, professor and service head of cardiology and cardiac surgery at Colorado State University. This course offers four days of instruction that focuses on nearly all aspects of clinical veterinary cardiology.

📍 We want to thank everyone who joined us this year at the Translational Medicine Institute. We had over 60 cardiologists come from across the U.S.A. including folks who traveled internationally from Thailand, China, Canada, UK, Germany, and Sweden.

Twice a year during spring and fall, we host MIS Week at the Translational Medicine Institute where small animal veterinarians learn minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic ovariectomy and gastropexy procedures.

To ensure vets leave these courses with the muscle memory and clinical confidence needed to implement these procedures in their practice, we partner with local rescues to provide no-cost surgeries to their dogs. These surgeries save these rescues thousands of dollars that can be utilized for other critical needs–all while helping dogs find their forever homes 💚 💛.

MIS Week is one of our favorite ways to make a local impact while elevating the standard of care these incredible, loving dogs deserve. Plus, we get dog cuddles! It's a win for everyone.

Thanks to the rescues who partnered with us this spring: Big Bones Canine Rescue, Mile High Canine Rescue, and Bounce Animal Rescue.

Also a BIG thank you to the 🐶: Jordy, Bentley, Percy, Gracie, Mabel, Olive, Lemon, Hank, and Bert.

✅ Our final set of 2026 courses are open for registration!

We're ending 2026 with some of your favorites, including MIS Week that includes performing no-cost ovariectomies for our local animal shelters, ensuring you leave with the muscle memory and clinical confidence needed to implement these procedures in your own practice.

Save limbs and improve the mobility of your patients with our introductory orthopedic courses for bone plating and safety-focused TPLO.

Whether it is foreign body removal, PEG tube placement, or GI biopsy, the new GI endoscopy skills you’ll build in our popular Flexible GI Endoscopy course will make you a valuable member of your clinic team and the hero of many pet-owning clients.

Principles of Canine Arthroscopy is back with a focus on addressing elbow disorders. Learn key components on arthroscopy equipment and how to properly drive an arthroscope during our 3 labs.

Get ready to register: this set of courses also features our final date for Small Animal Abdominal Surgery, our most popular course.

View details and register now at: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

MORE COURSES! Registration opens for our fall / winter courses on April 7, with some of your small animal favorites.

See details at: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

🐎 In their 43rd year, our Basic Equine Arthroscopy and Advanced Equine Arthroscopy courses have been a foundation for equine surgeons around the world. These courses will help you build the necessary skills to diagnose and treat challenging joint conditions in horses, teach you new arthroscopic techniques, and demonstrate how to remove osteochondral fragments to help preserve your patient’s joint health.

📣 Courtesy of a generous sponsorship, this year we are offering tuition assistance of $1,000 per student, per course for ACVS Residents. Find the link to the application on either registration page. Applications close on April 27, 2026.

⏰ ACVS & ECVS Diplomates, save $200 on registration now! Early bird pricing ends May 19.

Register now: https://csuvetce.com/2026-course-schedule/

Thank you to everyone who joined us last weekend for CSU's Annual Conference for Veterinarians: All in for Animal Health! We enjoyed seeing all of you and we hope you left the conference feeling inspired with new insights from our clinical teams and faculty.

A big thank you to our presenting faculty from CSU and our external guest speakers as well as our keynotes on Saturday and Sunday.

Thank you to CSU Veterinary Health System for hosting this event as well as our CSU partners at the Translational Medicine Institute and Vet Text Supply.

Thank you to Premier Sponsor Purina + Platinum Sponsors Zoetis & MWI Animal Health, along with 15 more, for helping underwrite the conference.