VET Trust

Veterinary Education Trust for  Continuing Professional Development

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Awards for CPD

Each year VET Trust allocates a sum of money as VET Trust CPD Awards to veterinary surgeons, veterinary practices and groups of veterinary surgeons to increase the amount of CPD they undertake and improve the quality of their CPD.

Previous recipients included junior academics living on grants, veterinary surgeons returning to practice following a career break and veterinary surgeons who could not get the level of CPD they require in the UK. Grants allowed the recipients to stay longer on overseas visits and thereby increase the value of the visits by, for example, visiting other institutions or specialists. Applicants in areas remote from the main sources of CPD are considered favourably.

Practices remote from the main centres of specialisation have found that a visiting tutor lecturing and demonstrating topics of specific interest can offer very good CPD value. The same applies to groups of practices. In both cases a VET Trust Award can underwrite some of the expenses of this targeted CPD.

While the Trust wants to increase the amount of CPD undertaken, it is more important that the studies are  high quality and relevant to recipients' needs and interests. Quality and relevance will be considered when assessing applications for a VET Trust Award.

For further information about applying for an award, please contact the VetTrust secretary: Sam Duff, Redriggs, Ceres, Fife, KY15 5LZ sam.duff@btconnect.com.