Basic & Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Abdomen, Thorax and Cardiac!

August 6 - 7, 2026

Early Bird Pricing! Register before May 6, 2026 to save $200!

Course Description

Early Bird Pricing!

~~$2695~~ $2495

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a rapidly evolving field in veterinary medicine, especially in emergency cases. Ultrasound machines are often available to practitioners, but training is lacking. There is limited training in veterinary school and the post-graduate training is not uniform. Unfortunately, this means your brand-new shining machine may be sitting in a corner of your clinic collecting dust or being used only for cystocentesis!

In this course, you will work with experts in emergency medicine and critical care with many years of experience teaching POCUS and you will learn how to use your machine across a broad variety of medical situations. This course is mainly designed to use the ultrasound machine as a point-of-care in an emergency situation but will also teach you to use it as a tool for abdominal ultrasound. The great thing about this course is that you will learn to ultrasound the abdomen, the chest, and the heart!

Access to this course will expire one year (365 days) from the course’s end date. After this period, users will no longer have access to course materials, resources, and any associated content. It is the responsibility of the users to complete the course and download any materials including their course completion certificate.

Course Technology Requirements:

To ensure a smooth learning experience, this course requires basic web navigation skills and proficiency in using a computer to successfully complete. Participants should be comfortable with tasks such as browsing websites, accessing online resources, downloading/saving documents, and navigating through course materials. The course will have a “course navigation” module available to help locate specific information.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our support team at [email protected].

Agenda

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Instructors

Dr. Julien Guillaumin

Assoc. Professor, DVM, DACVECC, DECVECC

Dr Guillaumin is currently an Associate Professor in Emergency and Critical Care at Colorado State University. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Nantes, France, Dr Guillaumin pursued a small animal rotating internship at the Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d’Alfort, France. After graduation, he worked in both private practice emergency settings and academia, serving as a clinical instructor in Emergency and Critical Care at the Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Lyon (now VetAgroSup). Dr Guillaumin continued his advanced training in Emergency and Critical Care by moving to the US in 2005, working as a clinical instructor at Cornell University and then completed his ACVECC residency at the University of California, Davis in 2009. For 10 years, Dr Guillaumin was a clinician, teacher and researcher as a clinical track Assistant, then Associate Professor at the Ohio State University. He also acted as the Blood Bank Director. In 2015, Dr Guillaumin was recognized as an invited diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. In 2019, Dr Guillaumin took a tenure-track position at Colorado State University. His clinical and research interests include thrombosis and thrombolysis, hemostasis, blood banking, transfusion medicine, sepsis and septic shock. Dr Guillaumin is a former Chair of the ACVECC residency training committee and currently serves as a Chair of the Joint Committee which oversees the work of the 3 major ACVECC Committees as well as a member of the ECVECC Education Committee. Dr Guillaumin has trained over 150 interns and ECC residents and has over 200 invited lectures and scholarly publications.

Dr. Linda Dillenbeck

Dr. Linda Dillenbeck attended veterinary school at the University of Sydney and graduated in 2012. Following multiple years in equine/mixed practice in Australia she sought specialty training in the US in 2018, first with a fellowship in Large Animal Ultrasound at the University of California in Davis followed by a Diagnostic Imaging Residency at North Carolina State University. She is a double boarded radiologist in both General and Equine Diagnostic Imaging and has held the position of Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Colorado State University since 2023. Her research interests include small and large animal musculoskeletal imaging, and cross-sectional imaging (MRI. CT and PET-CT) of the abdomen and musculoskeletal system. In her free time she enjoys participating in all the Colorado mountain activities; rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, ice climbing.

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Policies

Participant Cancellation Policy: Course attendees can cancel their registration for an in-person course according to the following

Cancellation more than 60 days prior: Full refund or 100% Future Transfer Credit (FTC).
Cancellation 30-60 days prior: 50% refund or 75% FTC.
Cancellations within 30 days: 50% FTC only. Cancellations due to illness or other unforeseen circumstances will be considered on an individual basis.
Future Transfer Credits can be applied to any course within 365 days of the cancelled course.

Course Cancellation Policy: Course cancellations due to low registration numbers or other circumstances may be announced 35 days or more prior to the course. Full refund of the course registration or 100% Future Transfer Credit (FTC) will apply. We are unable to reimburse for travel expenses incurred.

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