IMV imaging Courses 2026

‘Logic will get you from Adrenals to Bladder and the whole way through the Abdomen’

Course Overview:

This full day course is aimed at veterinary surgeons comfortable with basic abdominal ultrasonography and who want to take their skills a step further, tackling trickier things. With a mixture of lectures, demonstrations and practical hands-on sessions, you will soon get to grips with the entire tour of the abdomen.

Throughout the course you will learn the normal and pathological appearance of all major organs along with adrenal glands, pancreas, major vessels and abdominal lymph nodes. You will learn the landmarks to guide you to the subtler structures and you will examine the anatomy of the abdominal vasculature with the use of doppler ultrasonography.

Topics Covered:

• Get comfortable with the GI tract – learn to find your way around the stomach, small intestine, including duodenum, ileum, ICCJ and colon
• Look further at kidneys, the urinary and reproductive tracts and then where to find the adrenal glands and what to look out for
• Learn the landmarks that help us to locate the pancreas and what to expect
• Find and examine the major blood vessels and abdominal lymph nodes
• Understanding the use of doppler ultrasonography within the abdomen
• Put it into practice – get hands-on!

Equipment and Facilities:

We ask that the majority of delegates bring a dog to scan on the day, please let us know if you cannot bring a patient before booking. It is important that the dogs can be clipped as required for a full abdominal scan.

Kennelling accommodation for the dogs will be available to use if required. Various ultrasound machines will be available to use on the day, however, if you want to bring your own for practice you are welcome to do so, just let us know.

The day will be informal and relaxed with maximum time for hands-on learning. Arrive for tea and coffee from 8.30am, ready to begin the lectures at 9am. We will aim to finish by 5.30pm. Places are limited to a maximum of 10 delegates so book your place early to avoid disappointment. Course notes will be provided.

Location:
IMV imaging Unit 2, Block 3
City North Business Campus
Gormanston, Co. Meath
K32 ER81

CPD: 7.5 hours CPD. VCI CVE credits pending approval

Cost: £540 + VAT / €640 + VAT – Includes 2 course lunch and course notes

If you have any further questions, please contact fiona.mcfarland@imv-imaging.com / 0044 7760 908463

IMV imaging Courses 2026

Finding your way around ‘The Thorax and the Abdomen’

Course Overview:

This full day course is aimed at vets with minimal experience of diagnostic ultrasound and those who feel that they could get much more from their ultrasound machine for both basic abdominal ultrasonography and basic echocardiography.

Via a blend of lectures, demonstrations, and practical hands-on sessions you will gain the fundamental knowledge to improve your skills or get started if you don’t know where to begin. 

Topics Covered:

• Basic ultrasound physics – understand how an image is formed and what to do when things are not as they appear
• Get familiar with the machine – learn the core controls and how to get the best image, making your image better when you perform an ultrasound scan, depending on what you are looking at
• Indications – when to use ultrasound examinations – when is it a useful diagnostic tool?
• A logical approach to the main organs of the abdomen and a basic approach to the heart
• What normal looks like – Liver, gall bladder, spleen, GI Tract, kidneys, urogenital tracts and the general approach to assessing the abdomen
• Learn the normal appearance of the cardiac anatomy including normal right sided echocardiographic 2D views and their interpretation
• Put it into practice – get stuck in!

Equipment and Facilities:

We ask that most delegates bring a dog to scan, but it is not essential. Please let us know if you cannot bring a patient before booking. It is important that the dogs can be clipped for full abdominal and echocardiographic examinations.

Kennelling accommodation for the dogs will be available to use if required. Various ultrasound machines will be available to use on the day, however, if you want to bring your own for practice you are welcome to do so, just let us know. The day will be informal and relaxed with maximum time for hands-on learning.

Arrive for tea and coffee from 8.30am, ready to begin the lectures at 9am. We will aim to finish by 5.30pm. Places are limited to a maximum of 10 delegates so book your place early to avoid disappointment. Course notes will be provided

Location:
IMV imaging Unit 2, Block 3
City North Business Campus
Gormanston, Co. Meath
K32 ER81

Speaker: Mark Coia BVMS DipECVDI MRCVS RCVS and EBVS European Specialist in Diagnostic Imaging

CPD: 7.5 hours CPD. VCI CVE credits pending approval

Cost: £520 + VAT / €620 + VAT – Includes 2 course lunch and course notes

If you have any further questions, please contact fiona.mcfarland@imv-imaging.com / 0044 7760 908463

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Looking for something more advanced?

IMV imaging Courses 2026

All our IMV Academy CPD courses are now available in our new Learning Management System. The course links below will take you to our CPD site where you can book and view all our practical diagnostic imaging courses.

Please note that in order to book and view our courses, you must first have registered and be logged in. You can register for free here.

If you have any questions regarding the CPD courses, please do not hesitate to contact the IMV imaging Clinical team using learning@imv-imaging.com

Places on each practical training session are strictly limited to 12 delegates and will be further limited based upon the number of dogs available for training. Delegates are kindly requested to bring a dog with them for the duration of the course day, if possible. It is important that the dogs can be clipped as required for an ultrasound examination.

Every delegate who brings a dog that can be examined on the course day will receive £100 off the course price. 

To book onto the course with a dog, please fill out this form, and we will invoice you or your practice for the course place.

If you have any questions regarding the course, invoicing, or dogs, please contact learning@imv-imaging.com.

IMV imaging Courses 2026

All our IMV Academy CPD courses are now available in our new Learning Management System. The course links below will take you to our CPD site where you can book and view all our practical diagnostic imaging courses.

Please note that in order to book and view our courses, you must first have registered and be logged in. You can register for free here.

If you have any questions regarding the CPD courses, please do not hesitate to contact carol.kirkpatrick@imv-imaging.com

Course Content:

This course aims to boost vets’ confidence in using endoscopy equipment through theory, case studies, and hands-on practice, covering functions, uses, cleaning, and foreign body removal.

A morning session of theory and case studies followed by an afternoon session of hands-on practical activities.

Speaker:

Professor Mark Dunning MA VetMB CertSAM PhD DipECVIM-CA FRCVS

Graduated from Cambridge in 1997, Mark went on to spend time in both mixed and small animal practice. He interrupted a small animal medicine residency at the University of Liverpool to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, investigating the use of MRI to monitor novel therapies outcomes for multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury. After that he finished his small animal medicine residency at Cambridge and worked in private specialist practice for four years in England. Mark is a Clinical Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Nottingham Vet School, holding the European Diploma in Small Animal Internal Medicine and is recognised as a specialist by RCVS and EBVS®. Mark’s areas of expertise include gastrointestinal, endocrine, haematology, and renal medicine.

Dates:

• 26/06/2026- Hilton East Midlands Airport, M1, Junction 24, Derby, DE74 2YZ  
• 24/09/2026- Village Hotel Swindon, Shaw Ridge Leisure Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon SN5 7DW
• 10/12/2026 – Village Hotel Basingstoke, Plot W, Basing View, Basingstoke RG21 4EQ

Refreshments: Tea/Coffee & Lunch provided.

Cost: £440.00 + vat per delegate

Online Courses

Our online courses are not your typical type of CPD course. There are interactive elements, quizzes, clips and a variety of other engaging techniques all designed with you in mind!

Practical Courses

Our courses span the length of the UK and Ireland and are led by industry experts with vast experience and passion for imaging. Not only will you enhance your knowledge in our small and focused courses, but you will also be given demos, tips and have the opportunity to get hands on to ensure that you can put the theory into practice!

We have a range of beginner, advanced, theory, practical, full in depth courses and bitesize modules across the UK, Ireland and online. So why not take a look and discover how you can increase your confidence, know-how and practical skills in imaging today!

Our training packages support:

What do our customers say?

Course rating: 5/5

I really enjoyed the teaching, the online material was really clear and interactive. I have always struggled with ultrasonography and I definitely feel much more confident having done the course. The course gives great practical information which has helped me massively in practice. Definitely the best online material I have ever used

From a nursing point of view, the in house training was great. Our instructor was very knowledgeable and was able to explain structures and landmarks in a way I’ll be able to pass on to other people.

Cannot recommend enough, so involving and informative!

Very thorough instruction at a pace that suited everybody.  Individual one to one help where needed.

Incredibly useful to have training on the actual machine we use, as in the past everything has made sense on an ultrasound cpd day but then has been difficult to apply to our machine

How the modules are created is fantastic.  Really clear information, practical and visual. One of the best CPD I have done and I highly recommended it. 

IMV imaging Courses 2026

Course Overview:

This full day course is for veterinary surgeons comfortable with basic echocardiography and who want to refresh the basics and learn more. The day will be a mixture of interactive lectures, critical appraisal of echo images and hands-on scanning time. Delegates should be comfortable with very basic right sided views, however we will cover a brief refresher and spend some time perfecting these images, then learn to use colour and spectral doppler as well as working on left sided views.

Topics Covered:

• A refresher of basic 2D right-sided echo views and how to optimise them
• An introduction to Doppler ultrasonography – how, when and why it is used
• How to perform the left-sided echocardiographic views
• Get to grips with the measurements needed to make diagnoses and those we can use to assess cardiac function in more detail
• Spotting pathological changes
• Put it into practice – get stuck in!

Equipment and Facilities:

We ask that the majority of delegates bring a dog to scan to allow enough hands on practice, so please let us know if you cannot bring a patient before booking. It is important that the dogs can be clipped as required for an echocardiographic examination.

Kennelling accommodation for the dogs will be available to use if required. Various ultrasound machines will be available to use on the day, however, if you want to bring your own for practice you are welcome to do so, just let us know.

The day will be informal and relaxed with maximum time for hands-on learning. Arrive for tea and coffee from 8.30am, ready to begin the lectures at 9am. We will aim to finish by 5.30pm. Places are limited to a maximum of 8 delegates so book your place early to avoid disappointment. Course notes will be provided

Location:
IMV imaging Unit 2, Block 3
City North Business Campus
Gormanston, Co. Meath
K32 ER81

Speaker: Chris Linney BVSc GPCertSAP CertAVP(VC) DipECVIMCA (Cardiology) MRCVS
RCVS and EBVS Specialist in Small Animal Cardiology

CPD: 7.5 hours CPD. VCI CVE credits pending approval

Cost – Intermediate Courses: £540 + VAT / €640 + VAT – Includes 2 course lunch and course notes

If you have any further questions, please contact fiona.mcfarland@imv-imaging.com / 0044 7760 908463

IMV imaging Courses 2026

All our IMV Academy CPD courses are now available in our new Learning Management System. The course links below will take you to our CPD site where you can book and view all our practical diagnostic imaging courses.

Please note that in order to book and view our courses, you must first have registered and be logged in. You can register for free here.

If you have any questions regarding the CPD courses, please do not hesitate to contact the IMV imaging Clinical team using learning@imv-imaging.com

Places on each practical training session are strictly limited to 12 delegates and will be further limited based upon the number of dogs available for training. Delegates are kindly requested to bring a dog with them for the duration of the course day, if possible. It is important that the dogs can be clipped as required for an ultrasound examination.

Every delegate who brings a dog that can be examined on the course day will receive £100 off the course price. 

To book onto the course with a dog, please fill out this form, and we will invoice you or your practice for the course place.

If you have any questions regarding the course, invoicing, or dogs, please contact learning@imv-imaging.com.

Related Learning

IMV imaging Academy Online Courses

All our IMV Academy CPD courses are now available in our new Learning Management System. The course links below will take you to our CPD site where you can book and view all our practical diagnostic imaging courses.

Please note that in order to book and view our courses, you must first have registered and be logged in. You can register for free here.

If you have any questions regarding the CPD courses, please do not hesitate to contact the IMV imaging Clinical team using learning@imv-imaging.com

IMV imaging Academy Online Courses

All our IMV Academy CPD courses are now available in our new Learning Management System. The course links below will take you to our CPD site where you can book and view all our practical diagnostic imaging courses.

Please note that in order to book and view our courses, you must first have registered and be logged in.

You can register for free here.

If you have any questions regarding the CPD courses, please do not hesitate to contact the IMV imaging Clinical team using learning@imv-imaging.com