Conference 2010
This 26th Caribbean Veterinary Medical Association Conference is designed for veterinarians, senior veterinary students and allied professionals who are interested in improving the health and welfare of all animals: companion animals, farm animals, horses, marine mammals and more. These animals represent one side of an ever more complex and difficult association between animals and man. This tenuous relationship exists in the “Developing World” in an even more stark juxtaposition than in the “First World”. The challenge of this conference is to demonstrate how improving the well-being of animals benefits people whether they live in the First World or the Third World.
The biennial CbVMA conferences are the premier meeting venues for Caribbean veterinarians. They bring together colleagues from almost all the Islands and from parts of Central and South America. There was also a time when, through the Commonwealth, hundreds of Canadian veterinarians participated in these conferences. In 2010 we are not only inviting back to the Caribbean our Canadian colleagues, but we are actively encouraging veterinarians from all over the world to attend. This is only natural now, as with four international veterinary schools situated in the English-speaking Caribbean there are thousands of veterinarians practicing throughout the world who have received their training in this region.
The CbVMA 2010 Scientific Program will feature regionally and internationally renowned speakers. For four days leading experts in the veterinary profession will deliver information on important veterinary topics that span the range of species and the diversity of interests in veterinary medicine.
And it goes without saying that if you are in the Caribbean you’re going to have fun. The Conference will be at Jamaica’s largest conference hotel, the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa. It’s an “all-inclusive” family hotel so you can bring your family, and after you check in and register, you can do just about anything you want without the payment of an additional fee.
We will not be as big as some of the veterinary conferences that are to be found in North America and elsewhere. However, you will not experience a nicer place to learn and a closer feeling of family, than you will when you join us in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, between November 3 and November 6, 2010.