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Polish Small Animal Veterinary Association (PSAVA)

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Agricultural University of Lublin
ul.Gleboka 30a
20-612 Lublin, Poland
Tel: +48 81 445 61 58
Fax: +48 81 445 50 00
E-mail adress: pslwmz@poczta.onet.pl
Website: www.pslwmz.org.pl

President: Dr. Jerzy Gawor
E-mail: jgawor@pp.com.pl

WSAVA representative
Prof. Roman Lechowski
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Clinical Sciences
ul. Nowoursynowska 166
Warszawa
Poland
Tel: +48 604272049
Fax: +48 22 638 74 50
E-mail: romanlechowski@hot.pl
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Polish Small Animal Veterinary Association 2006/7 Report

General information

Number of members – 420, (currently paid members are 228)

The number of veterinarians working with small animals in Poland is estimated to 2600. The number of small animal practices is around 2000. It is much larger figure than PSAVA members, however a big part of them participate in events organized by Association.

Continuing education

In 2006 there were 2 CE events. The first one was WSAVA CE conference “Corneal diseases in dogs” on 23rd April in which 60 participants took part. The status of CE event had also PSAVA Annual Congress “Small Animal Cardiology and Gastroenterology” which was held on September 2006 in Wroclaw.

There were other CE events in 2006: Skin Disease Symposium on January, VII Meeting of Poliklinika Slaska (March), X Dermatologic conference (April) , IIIrd Oncologic conference in Warsaw on June, The third Surgical Meeting dedicated to Blood therapy (May), Hip Dysplasia Conference on November. Several smaller meetings particularly from Imaging section were held thanks to their very active leaders.

Although mentioned other activities had no WSAVA and/or FECAVA indirect input – we used our good relations with those Organizations to invite friends from other countries as the speakers. So we hosted over 30 foreign speakers presenting different fields of small animal medicine. While WSAVA/FECAVA Congress in Prague 78 participants from Poland were present. A big part of them were PSAVA members.

PSAVA Congress September 2006 in Wroc³aw. 15-16 September
Two main streams of the Congress: Cardiology and GI tract filled two day Congress, Pre-Congress wetlabs and satisfy several hundreds of members, students and guests.

PSAVA Congress May 13-14 2007 in Lodz.
The term of office for the PSAVA Board will be finished and the new Board is going to be elected. According to the new constitution, the President Elect will be elected for 3 terms of offices and will change his post consecutively every 3 years.

PSAVA Sections
At present in PSAVA there are following working groups called as Sections: Dermatological, Cardiologic, Dental, Surgical, Ophtalmic, Oncologic, Imaging, There are most of members involved in those groups. According to PSAVA Constitution the number of sections one can be a member of is limited into 3. All the sections present plan of activities for coming year.

Other events Apart from that two campaigns in all over territory of Poland were held: June was dedicated to dentistry Pet Smile Campaign, August-October was several meetings in big cities in cooperation of Masterfoods and PSAVA: “Together with your dog-friend”.

Total number of veterinarians participated in all events were estimated to 1800. In Pet Smile Campaign over 2000 vets in over 700 practices provided free dental check-ups.

Plans for 2007/8
The current Board will finish its term of office. The new Board will be elected while Annual Congress in Lodz. New plans will refer to previous agreement and perhaps a stimulating kick to the new leaders will make new ideas, activities and plans.

Poland, Kraków March 2007