“I’d love to train, but I just don’t have the time.” That’s the phrase we hear most often when we talk continuing education with practicing veterinarians. And rightly so: between consultations, emergencies, on-call duty and family life, freeing up 3 days in a row for a seminar becomes an organizational and financial headache.
It’s precisely to address this constraint that VETCYT has built its pedagogy around a simple principle: 15 minutes a day, at your own pace, from anywhere. Here’s how it works, and why it works better than intensive seminars.
Why intensive continuing education fails
Studies in cognitive science are clear: massed (intensive) learning produces far lower retention than spaced learning. In concrete terms, 3 days of seminars churning out notions = 70-80% forgetting at 4 weeks. Conversely, 15 minutes a day for 6 months = much steadier retention curve, as you revisit the notions regularly.
And then there’s practice: what you learn on Tuesday in seminar, you don’t really apply until the practice the following Friday – too late. With spaced training, what you learn today, you apply tomorrow in consultation.
The VETCYT format: video modules of 10 to 15 minutes
One notion per module
Each module tackles one single pedagogical notion, covered in depth, illustrated by clinical cases. No digressions, no cramming. By the end of 15 minutes, you’ll have understood a specific thing, and know how to use it in a consultation.
Access 24/7
LearnyBox platform, accessible from any terminal (computer, tablet, smartphone). Before the first morning consultation, between appointments, in the evening on the sofa. You decide when.
Downloadable resources
Each module comes with a summary PDF, a summary diagram, and sometimes a printable practice sheet to stick in the practice (decision algorithm, diagnostic criteria…).
Digital PT room and virtual microscope
This is VETCYT’s great technological leap: each training session includes a defined number of high-resolution digital slides, scanned under real clinical conditions. You navigate the slide in X, Y and Z (focus), zoom from 2× to 100× magnification, identify areas of interest, and compare your analysis with Eve Ramery’s correction.
Concretely, it’s better than a physical microscope: you can “go back”, compare two slides side by side, and train on rare real-life cases you’d never come across in the clinic. To find out more, check out our page dedicated to the VETCYT method.
Test before you commit
If you want to see what a VETCYT module really looks like before you commit, we’ve made the B-A BA of cytology completely free. 10 video modules that cover the basics of sampling, staining and slide reading. Total time: around 90 minutes. That’s less than half a day of conventional training.
