Your membership and your personal commitment is vital to our constant work of keeping the veterinary profession up to date through continuing education.
Membership categories and fees
| Membership |
Membership fee (includes GST) |
Benefits |
| Student |
$50 full time students |
Web access to Control & Therapy Series,
book order forms, access to website restricted pages, and information
about upcoming courses. |
| Affiliate |
$75 per annum for non-veterinarians, retired members |
Web access to Control & Therapy Series, book order forms, access to website restricted pages, and information about upcoming courses. |
| Nurse |
$75 per annum for vet nurses |
Web access to Control & Therapy Series, book order forms, access to website restricted pages, and information about upcoming courses.
May register at nurses’ rates when applicable. |
| Member |
$275 per annum per veterinarian |
Control & Therapy Series, book order forms, and information about upcoming courses. May register at discounted rates for Events and Timeonline courses, access restricted pages of the PGF website, CAB and Medline databases; and buy books at a discounted rate. |
| Governor |
$10,000 per annum per veterinarian |
Same as Member. In recognition of financial support for the PGF a seat
on Council for one year without election at AGM. |
| Life Governor |
$10,000 per annum for 10 consecutive years |
Same as Member. In recognition of financial support for the PGF a seat
on Council without election at AGM and a seminar named after Life
Governor in their specialty area in the year they become a Life Governor. |
| Practice |
$275 for the first membership, $220 for each subsequent named vet of the practice, $55 for any affiliate members |
Same as Member except each subsequent named vet of the practice receives an emailed copy of the Control & Therapy Series, and Affiliate Members receive the benefits described above.
Special Conditions:
- Each membership must be associated with a person. If this person leaves the practice the membership stays with the practice. The practice will need to inform the PGF when a staff member changes.
- Please fill out a separate application form for each practice membership and email pgfsales@usyd.edu.au to advise of this.
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| Donor |
Any amount |
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Member benefits
Your
resources for continuing education in veterinary science include:
Control & Therapy and Perspective articles
These are accounts by practitioners of what they do for the
control and therapy of diseases and problems which they meet day by day in
their practices. As these articles come from all over Australasia, and indeed
from some other countries such as Papua New Guinea and South Africa, UK, Argentina
and many other countries they form a very vibrant forum for the exchange of
in-practice ideas. Perspective articles on important topics are also produced. Click
here to view the Control & Therapy series (you will need to log in first). You can also submit your own article
online.
Distance Education
There are 18 Distance Education Programs for you to choose from. Each program
is 10 months long (starting in February, with some exceptions), and consists of monthly resource
material, problems, and practical exercises that are to be completed by the participant
and returned to the Post Graduate Foundation for assessment by the tutor.
Each course includes face-to-face workshops, online discussion groups and
telephone conversations with the tutor throughout the year. They are supported
by audio/visual resources. Click
here for our current course list.
Events
The Post Graduate Foundation conducts many events for veterinarians each year, ranging in duration from one to five days. There is a wide choice of topics and our tutors are specially selected for their knowledge and skill in clinical practice. Events include refresher courses, conference, symposia and workshop style events, including those with in-depth instruction and interaction between tutors and participants, and refresher course events designed for practitioners who are able to take 'time out' but wish to remain current in clinical practice. View our current Events calendar here.
NurseEd
These courses are designed for veterinary nurses who want to update their skills.
TimeOnline courses
TimeOnline courses running for up to 6 weeks through an online format called WebCT (Web Course Tools). Complete at the convenience of your own home or practice. TimeOnline caters to those veterinarians who are not able to physically attend seminars and would prefer to study online at their leisure. TimeOnline courses generally consist of notes, quizzes, case studies and a discussion forum. Click here for the current TimeOnline schedule.
Proceedings
The
proceedings which are printed for each refresher course are made up of the
lecture notes produced by the speakers we invite from all over the world.
These invaluable books are fully indexed and are available at special discount
prices for Affiliates, Members and Governors of the Post
Graduate Foundation. Some proceedings are now available on CD-ROM. Purchase
these online through your vetbookshop.com.
Textbooks, DVDs, CD-ROMs & Manuals
These are various topics important to practice produced as they are required.
Purchase these online through your vetbookshop.com.
Website
You can
access the resources of the Foundation on our website at www.pgf.edu.au.
This site contains details on all of our courses, Control
& Therapy series, discussion forums, TimeOut notes, and interactive case
studies. Vetbookshop.com is available for you to order your books online. The restricted
pages of the PGF website (those marked with a 'key' symbol) require you to
have a username and password.
To pay your membership,
please click here.
