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Swedish Society of Veterinary Medicine (Small Animal Section)

Box 12 709 SE-112 94
Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 8 545 558 20
Fax: +46 8 545 558 39
E-mail: office@svf.se
Website: www.svf.se

President: Dr. Brodil Strom Holst
E-mail: Bodil.Strom-Holst@bvf.slu.se

WSAVA Representative
Dr. Alexandra Vilen
Regiondjursjukhuset i Helsingborg,
Bergavagen 3,
Box 22097, 250 23 Helsingborg,
Sweden
Tel: +4642168000
E-mail: alexandra@vilen.se

Membership: 522 (March 2007)

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Swedish Small Animal Veterinary Association (SSAVA) Annual Report (March 2007)

Board activity: Meeting 3-4 times a year to discuss and plan upcoming issues.

The annual national meeting 2006 was held in Uppsala in November. Our speakers this year was Dr Bruno Pypendop and Dr Linda Barter from UC Davies, USA. They spoke regarding anesthesia/analgesia. The lectures were much appreciated by the many attending veterinarians.

The coming meeting 2007 we are very glad to have Dr Dez Hughes as our head speaker. He will lecture on intensive care. The meeting has since quite a few years been thought to cover one subject as a two-day course for the small animal vets. This year we have some plans though to extend the meeting. There will be a parallel session with shorter lectures in different topics in a “what´s new” spirit. This is to try and cover as many different interest as possible among the small animal veterinarians.

There have been many opportunities for continuing education. The interest for the degree Steg I “Swedish specialist in diseases of dogs and cats” (approximately the level equal to a British “certificate”) is continously very high . The newly developed Steg II (topic specialisation) also seems to attract Swedish veterinarians.

There are quite a courses held in both medicine as well as surgery.

The Swedish veterinary union has reorganized to more meet their members needs with separate divisions för employers as employees.

SSAVA is represented in a referencegroup working with the special considerations regarding animals that are travelling abroad as well as the troblesome business when puppies are illegally brought to Sweden to be sold. These dogs usually arrives in a very poor condition. There are as well work regarding the use of antibiotics.

SSAVA Director

Alexandra Vilén