Continuing Education

The Hope Center invites you to join us for Facets: A Veterinary Continuing Education Symposium. These bi-annual events cover a wide variety of topics and are completely free to attend. The 2012 Spring edition will be held on March 11, 2012. For details and to register to attend, please visit the Facets Homepage.

As of now, registration for Facets is closed. We have received an overwhelming response of more than 300 RSVPs in only 13 days! This far surpasses our goals for this initial event and we are excited by the interest from the community for this and future events. We have created a waitlist and will be following up with attendees to verify their plans to attend closer to the event date. If you missed out, we urge you to sign up for our newsletter which includes Save the Date and Early Registration notices.

New Name. New Venue. New Scope. Don’t Miss It.

Facets (previously the 2012 Spring Specialist Symposium) will be held on March 11, 2012. This event will build on the success of past events, offer more choice in CE, a new, amazing venue and a track for technicians.

• 6 Hours of CE Credit for Veterinarians and Technicians
• Free to Attend Thanks to Support from our Sponsors
• Breakfast items and Full Lunch to be Served
• Multitract Experience with a Choice of 18 Veterinarian Courses spread over 6 hours*
• Technician Track with 6 Hours of Credit
• Keynote: Walt Hogan, President of Symbiosis: “Improving Human Performance In The Workplace”
• Multitract Experience with Choice of 20 Veterinarian Courses
• Beginner and Intermediate Ultrasound Wet-Labs
  • Register for Beginner Ultrasound Wet-Lab Here
  • Register for Intermediate Ultrasound Wet-Lab Here
  • Note – Please also register for the event in whole by using the registration on this page
• Technician Track with 6 Hours of Credit
• Post-Event Social Hour in Hotel Lounge

*Please Note: We will use your interests to help create the most effective schedule for the day. A detailed schedule will be available at http://www.hopecenter.com/ce as we get closer to the event date.

What is “Facets”?
We believe this is just a beginning. Like crystals growing piece by piece, our goal is to expand this event in scope and breadth every time we present it. Future events will explore other areas of veterinary medicine, technical care and the running of a veterinary service. We will continue to bring in outside speakers to supplement our own and add to the range of disciplines. We will partner with other services and groups to provide the best experience possible for attendees. And most of all, we will listen to the feedback of our referring community to provide the education that they are seeking. 

What’s Multitrack?
We want each Facets symposium to be as useful as possible for every attendee. That’s why we have crafted this event as a multitrack experience. With this layout, veterinarians and technicians can create their own unique CE day by choosing which course interests them most with new choices every hour.

Each technician presentation is geared towards the practical, hands on job of a veterinary technician. Veterinarian lectures tend to be more scientific. However, technicians are quite free to attend veterinarian lectures if they so choose. Unfortunately, veterinarians do not receive any CE credit for attending technician lectures. (Please note: The above “schedule” is for explanation purposes only – a complete schedule will be available closer to the event date)

Thank you to our sponsors!