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Drs Steve and Karen Marsden - Three Day Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Seminar

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Duration:

3 Days

Course will start on

February 25, 2026

Price:

$1,636.00 USD

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About the Course

Join world leading educators, Drs Steve and Karen Marsden, for a three-day traditional Chinese veterinary herbal medicine and acupuncture seminar from 25th to 27th February 2026 in Brisbane, Australia.

Dr Steve Marsden, CIVT's most popular webinar and course presenter, and Dr Karen Marsden, an accomplished integrative veterinarian, are both based in the USA. We’re delighted to host them for this rare in-person deep dive into integrative veterinary medicine.

The Keys to the Kingdom: Revive and Refresh Your Skills; Maximize Your Results

This live seminar is practical from start to finish. You will learn skills and approaches that are immediately useful and relevant to your practice via invigorating and interactive case-based lectures.

You will gain the skills to rapidly assess patients via correlating their history with their biomedical complaints pulse, tongue and active points, so that you have a comprehensive understanding of what is going on in them that will allow you to immediately choose the treatment most likely to be effective.

You will then learn how to implement those treatments with maximum safety and efficacy, so you get exceptional results that you can charge properly for, because you’re finally able to resolve chronic problems for good, saving you time and owners’ money.

At the completion of this event you will feel reassured, knowing exactly what you’re doing when you get back to the clinic.

Chinese herbal medicine might sometimes seem to be an overwhelming undertaking, requiring you to sift through hundreds of formulas, thousands of herbs, and many pages of books every time you treat a patient - too time intensive to be practical in a busy modern practice setting. This live seminar will change all that!

  • Three days of live presentations
  • Early bird discount for registrations before 19th December
  • Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are included
  • An optional social dinner will be held on Thursday 26th evening at Siam Thai Restaurant Southbank - great food, good fun, and an opportunity to make connections with your colleagues. The banquet menus is $44 with drinks/desserts purchased separately. Further details and payment link for this event will be available upon registration

  • Venue - 160 Vulture St, South Brisbane - just minutes from the vibrant South Bank cultural precinct and Brisbane CBD. You can click HERE for link to view the location in Google Maps
  • Times - Wednesday 25th - Registration 8:45am, 9am start - 5pm finish. Thursday 26th and Friday 27th - 8:45 Start - 5:15pm finish
  • Program - For full program details please refer to the 'what you will learn' section below. You can download a copy of the program by clicking HERE
     
Seminar Recording Available
Unable to attend the live event? You can register for the recording, click HERE to learn more. 

Seminar Sponsors
CIVT acknowledges the generous contributions from our seminar sponsors, please click the logos below to find out more.





                  


             
                      

 


 

 

Credits

  • 18 IVAS Credits
Dr Steve Marsden
Dr Karen Marsden

Meet the Tutors and Lecturers

Dr Steve Marsden
DVM ND MSOM FACVBM GDVA GDVCHM Dipl.AC Dipl.CH AHGDr
Dr Steve Marsden received his doctorate in veterinary medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 1988. At the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon he obtained a doctorate in Naturopathic medicine, a Master's of Science...
41 Webinars and 18 Courses
DVM, CVA, BA
Dr. Karen Marsden received an Ivy League education at the University of Pennsylvania and went on to train as a veterinarian at the prestigious Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University outside Boston. She is an owner of a complementary...
3 Webinars and 2 Courses

What will you Learn

Wednesday 25th February

The Tie That Binds: the importance of circulation in eastern and western medicine 

The vascular basis of pathophysiology: what science has discovered that vets are not being taught
  •  Endothelial dysfunction and how it relates to chronic inflammation and degeneration
  • Acute inflammation
Daily and seasonal shifts in circulation

Wednesday 25th February

The Tie That Binds: the importance of circulation in eastern and western medicine 

The vascular basis of pathophysiology: what science has discovered that vets are not being taught
  •  Endothelial dysfunction and how it relates to chronic inflammation and degeneration
  • Acute inflammation
Daily and seasonal shifts in circulation

According to science 

  • Seasonal changes in circulation
  • The circadian rhythm of circulation: why pulse diagnosis works

 According to Chinese medicine 

  • Chinese medical explanation of daily and seasonal circulatory shifts
  • How to use the time of year to diagnose a case
Correlation of Chinese medical diagnoses with states of vascular pathophysiology
  • Including the ten most common Chinese medical diagnoses

Pulse Diagnosis: detecting blood flow in your patients 

Pulse diagnosis: physically detecting blood flow perturbations
  • The hemodynamic basis of Chinese pulse and tongue diagnosis
  • Detecting the traits of the pulse 
Pulse and Tongue Diagnosis Lab
  • Finding representative pulses among participants

            - Making sure people can feel what everyone else is feeling

  • Discussion of those key pulses in the context of animal cases

 

Thursday 26th February

Active Points: how to know EXACTLY what is going on in a patient 

Why we have acupuncture points
  • How they work and their survival benefits
  • Detecting active points
  • Active points: how the body treats its own diseases by changing circulation
The most important Active Points and where to find them and how they work
  • He-Sea points
  • Association points
Putting it all together: Using Active Points to Change the Pulse lab
  • Detecting active points
  • Correlating the pulse to a patient’s chief complaint
  • Using points to change the patient’s pulse
  • Feeling the pulse change

Getting to a successful prescription 

Blueprint for success
  • Synthesizing the data from the pulse, tongue, active points, lab data, chief complaint and symptoms to determine what will likely help and not hurt a case    
Common clinical presentations
  • Illustrated by real cases
  • A fresh look at common chief complaints, their accompanying Chinese medical diagnoses, and their typical clinical presentation
  • Correlation of their circulatory underpinnings with the pulse, symptoms and laboratory findings that are typically seen
Know your tools
  • Correlation of herbal formula taste with its vascular impact
  • A study of the top most useful Chinese herbal formulas for veterinarians, focusing on:

                       - The typical pulse calling for their use 

                       - How the pulse correlates with their biomedical circulatory effects 

                       - How the formula taste correlates with this circulatory effect 


Friday 27th 
February

Navigating the ups and downs of treatment 

Understanding herb drug interactions and adverse events
  • How to interpret adverse events

                       -  “There are no side effects” 

  • The importance of a mismatched circulatory impact as the chief driver of adverse events
  •  How to use these adverse events to revise your prescriptions 
When your confidence is low, how to start treating a case
  • Practical template for a strong yet safe start
  • Includes recommendations for dosing and follow-up
Re-evaluating a case
  • When to recheck
  • What you’re looking for
  • Implication of each of the potential outcomes and how to adjust herbal treatment
Sleuth and Slog: How the Marsdens figure out what to do

Interactive work ups by the Marsdens of challenging cases brought by students

  • Jeopardy!

                         - Reinforcing what we’ve learned.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Is online study right for me?

The College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies offers courses that are both challenging and rewarding. You can learn at your own pace under the tutelage of experts in their field. Online or distance learning is not for everyone. Think carefully before you enroll. To succeed in online learning and distance education you will need:

  • A commitment to study and enquiry
  • To be capable of self directed learning with our guidance and support through your course
  • Motivation to pursue your course of study
  • Access to the internet and a printer
  • A good internet service that provides a good speed for downloads
  • An enthusiasm for engaging with your tutors and peers
  • The ability to work on your own or collaborate in a team
  • The capability of an independent level of written and spoken English
  • An appointment by phone may be requested prior to course commencement- we don't want you to start if we think we can't provide the right experience for you
  • If you are not sure contact us, we can help you gain a  full understanding of our courses before applying.

What you won't need is to pay airfares, travel, hotel bills by participating in green education!

All our courses are available to enrol at any time.  Our courses are part time, self paced within the course timeframe, and fully online.  Sometimes there is a scheduled start date for a course, in which we accept a group intake of enrolments. This encourages a cohort of students to move through the course together, making for a more interactive learning experience.

Although some courses have live sessions available, there are no live sessions that you are required to attend for any of our courses.  Our courses are delivered online and are self paced within the course timeframe, to give you the greatest flexibility with your study. You can study anywhere, anytime that suits you. We have great learning tools such as lectures, comprehensive course notes, videos, online resources, discussion forum and continuous support from our highly qualified and experienced tutors to help you can get the most out of your course.

Please refer to our enrolment terms and conditions when seeking extra time in a course, https://civtedu.org/enrolment-terms-and-conditions 

If you take a "leave of absence/deferral" from a course this freezes your progress in the course.  You will have no access to the course during this time.  A request for a leave of absence/deferral can be made for up to 3 months, initially.  Longer periods of time away from the course can be reviewed after this time.  If you want to use any course resources whilst you are taking your leave of absence/deferral you will need to download the material (such as documents, course notes, reading material) beforehand.  There is no fee to take a leave of absence/deferral, however your regular payment instalments for the course will continue.

If you request an "extension" for a course, you may be given extra time in a course and still have full access to the course.  An extension can be granted for up to, or equal to, the maximal period of study for that course.  There is a fee involved in applying for an extension, this varies according to the amount of extra time requested and is found on the link provided.

 

This depends on the type of course you enrol in.

Our introductory or short courses require approximately 3-5 hours per week.  Our Certifications and Graduate Diplomas require approximately 5-10 hours per week.  This will vary amongst individuals, depending on the pace in which they learn.  More time may be needed each week, depending on how long an individual needs to spend on completing assignments. 

If you are a registered Veterinarian, you are eligible to enrol in any of our courses, https://civtedu.org/courses 

If you are a Veterinary Technician or Veterinary Nurse or Animal Health Professional you may be able to apply to enrol in selected courses for Veterinarians, however you will need to go through an eligibility process first. Otherwise, you can apply for our courses for Animal Health Professionals, https://civtedu.org/courses/animal-health-professionals 

If you are a Pet Owner, you can apply for our courses designed for Pet Owners, https://civtedu.org/courses/pet-owners 

 

Earn your own CIVT certificate of completion

The College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies offers courses that are both challenging and rewarding. You can learn at your own pace under the tutelage of experts in their field. What you won’t need is to pay airfares, travel, hotel bills by participating in green education!

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

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