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“Your Neurology & Ophthalmology Rotations 2.0: This Time with Feeling” 

Maybe you were paying attention, but didn’t have any real-world experience to apply it to, so it was forgotten right away. Or maybe it just didn’t seem as important as Cushing’s disease diagnosis and cystotomy principles, so it was filed away in your mind as, “I’ll get back to you later.”

Well, later is now.

Neurology:

You’re encountering wobbles, convulsions, dizziness, and disorientation without any real confidence about what to do next. Enter Rounds 2.0—a second go at fourth year…but something’s different this time.

You have that 2-year-old Chihuahua back in September that has a specific gait that just feels off. Or Mrs. Jones, who keeps trying medications, but the seizures just won’t stop. Your favorite Labrador that succumbed to progressive weakness and you never really knew why.

None of these cases had a CT or MRI, but you just know that if you could do it all again—with practical tools that you could actually use—the outcome would be different: for the client and owner, your staff, and you.

So finish your notes and get ready for 4 o’clock post-case rounds with your buddies.“There is no blood on the walls. No one has been murdered in this space.” The only time you’re wrong is when you don’t try.

Here is your rotation list of rounds topics:

• Approach to Neurology — I know, I know…neurolocalization.

• Okay, Let’s Go Outside and See Your Dog Move — Gait analysis.

• Back Leg Weakness — Thoracolumbar cases and tricksters.

• Low Head Carriage and Fat Necks — Cervical cases and management 

• Seizures — Medications are the least important part. 

• Vestibular Presentations — Refer or fix it myself?

Ophthalmology: 

Ophthalmology doesn’t give you much room for error. Vision lost is often vision that doesn’t come back, and the difference between a routine case and an emergency can come down to what you find — or miss — in the first two minutes of the exam.

Remember the Boxer with the ulcer that wouldn’t heal no matter which drop you reached for? Or the “conjunctivitis” that turned out to be uveitis three visits later, once the real cause finally showed itself? Or the eyelid mass you referred out, because “blepharoplasty” sounded like somebody else’s job?

This track is your playbook: a systematic approach to ocular assessment, evidence-based protocols for corneal ulcers, uveitis, and glaucoma, a clear-eyed look at which medications actually earn a place in your drawer, and hands-on techniques for the surgeries you may have been referring out.

Come with your toughest cases and your questions. You’ll leave with a plan for both.

Here’s your lineup:

• The Ophthalmology Playbook: Winning Tactics for Ocular Assessment 

• Corneal Ulcer Bootcamp: Two Hours to Confident Diagnosis and Treatment 

• Ocular Medications Unpacked: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s New

• Pressure Points: Glaucoma Care in Dogs and Cats 

• Flare Factor: Managing Uveitis from Diagnosis to Definitive Care 

• Enucleation in 2027: Improving Outcomes Through Advanced Perioperative Care 

• Eyelid Surgery Essentials: A Practitioner’s Guide to Precision and Success