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Serbian Association of Small Animal Practitioners (SASAP)

c/o Dr. Ivana Ribara
186/30,
11070 Belgrade,
Serbia
Tel. +381 11 2851 923
Fax. +381 11 382 1712/+381 11 2604 289
Website: www.smasap.org.yu
E-mail: sasap_posta@yahoo.com

President & WSAVA Representative:
Dr. Denis Novak
Veterinary Practice "Novak"
Belgrade, Veselina Maslese 55
Tel: +381 11 2851 856
Fax: +381 11 2851 923
E-mail: novak@ptt.yu

Membership (January 2007): 110

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Report for WSAVA December 2005-March 2007

SASAP - Serbia Association of Small Animal Practitioners (former Serbia and Monte Negro Association of Small Animal Practitioners) had busy and productive year on various aspects. The main SASAP activities during the last period were as listed bellow.

Continuing Education

This is possibly the most important work of the SASAP.

SASAP Symposium - SIVEMAP 2006

SASAP organised Symposium for Small Animal Practitioners in Belgrade from 17th to 19th November 2006. The speakers were Mr Dick White, Mr Alex German, Mrs Allison German, all from UK , Mr Henrie Van Bree and Mrs Ingrid Gielen from Belgium , Mr Zlatko Pavlica and Mr Robert Stezinar from Slovenia, Mr Mato Markovic from Austria, Mrs Sanja Aleksic Kovacevic from Serbia. Topics covered included Internal medicine, Clinical Pathology, Dentistry, Orthopaedics, Soft tissue surgery and Radiology. 27 lectures and Radiology workshop, 11 companies present from industry. The Symposium was a great success with over 130 delegates.

After the success of the 3 previous years, we will be holding a SIVEMAP 2007 in October 2007.

WSAVA CE program

WSAVA kindly donated seminar in May 2006 – Small animal Anaestesia.That was a big success. The speaker was Mrs. Aleksandra Trbolova from Slovak Republic. There were 88 delegates.

In March 2007 SASAP continued to participate in WSAVA CE program. Endocrinology CE program was a huge success with 128 delegates attending the meeting. The speaker was Mr. Michael Herrtage from UK.

OTHER CE program

There were a number of other types of seminars held for members last year. These included topics as diverse as:
- Presentation of Clinical cases by veterinarians from general small animal practice
- Otitis in small animal animals, Management in every day practice, Feline Medicine, Relevant in house laboratory in small animal practice.

The response from attendees has been very positive. More then 150 delegates participated in the program. I think it is a very good that we, sometimes, use our local resources to the maximum and that every day practitioners can present their views on various topics.

SASAP organised trip to the WSAVA /FECAVA /CSAVA 2006 Congress in Prague with 36 SASAP members attending the Congress.

Other activities of Association

In lights of new legislation which is in place from November 2005 in veterinary medicine in our country, SMASAP representatives send additional suggestions to the Ministry of Agriculture. We continued to that in 2006.
Topics that were discussed included a reorganization of small animal practice, problems with identification of pets, distribution of prescribed veterinary medicine etc.
We succeeded in very important issue – since May 2006. Every registered veterinarian, no matter private or state veterinarian, is allowed to vaccinate dogs and cats against the rabies and to do microchip. That fight lasted over the last 16 years. SASAP had a crucial role in finding the final solution.
SASAP played important role in organization of new Veterinary Chamber of Serbia.
28 SASAP delegates were in Council, 2 SASAP members are in the Board and 2 SASAP members are in the Scientific Comity and 1 SASAP is a member in Ethical Comity of Veterinary Chamber.

Website

SMASAP website served well but we think that might be some improvement in the future. Please visit www.smasap.org.yu for more details.

Database

The database is updated regularly; last years membership was 120 and we hope to improve further this year.

Subcommittees

There are a few SMASAP subcommittees that were very active on various topics such are pet's identification, stray dogs control, new veterinary legislation, and Veterinary chamber of Serbia etc.

Denis Novak DVM MRCVS
WSAVA Representative
SMASAP President