The Veterinary Bioscience Institute, a leading provider of biosurgica and biomedical education services, announced today that in addition to providing globally available mobile on-site training, it will offer online surgical and anesthesia courses beginning November 1st, 2009. Based in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, the Veterinary Bioscience Institute provides state of the art online and mobile rodent surgical and biomethodology training to the biomedical community throughout the U.S. and around the globe. "These Online Surgical and Anesthesia courses, in addition to the online Media Library we introduced in 2009, demonstrates our continued commitment to providing high-quality, innovative, and easily accessible training options for globally dispersed biomedical community," said Szczepan Baran, chief academic officer of the Veterinary Bioscience Institute. "Education is an asset; something that can enrich our lives on a personal and professional level. Online courses in such fields as rodent surgery, anesthesia and analgesia are relevant to the practices, theories and skill sets of today's biomedical workforce. We believe that by offering such an asset to our community, we play an important part in its future success," Baran added. The Online Surgical and Anesthesia courses were designed to have the ability to provide continual access to high quality and up to date materials, which can be used as a teaching, reference and review tool. These tools can assist participants in preparation for their certification exams. In addition, the courses are a way for participants to obtain continuing education credits since VBI is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE). These courses are continually updated with the most up-to-date and relevant information.
About Veterinary Bioscience Institute
The Veterinary Bioscience Institute (VBI) is dedicated to providing an environment that nurtures and promotes active and self-directed instruction through E-learning and mobile on-site consulting/training services. VBI specializes in the art and science of experimental surgery and bioethics while promoting the responsible use of animals. The institute encourages communication and interaction throughout the laboratory animal community by providing an online platform. VBI acts as a central resource to members of the globally dispersed laboratory animal and biotechnology communities on matters of rodent surgery, biomethodologies, bioethics and welfare.
For more information, please visit www.vetbiotech.com.



