Join world leading educators, Drs Steve and Karen Marsden, for a three-day traditional Chinese 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 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!
Social Dinner:
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...
Social Dinner:
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.
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:
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
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.
