Epi. 238 – AABP Edwin Robertson Beginning Embryo Transfer Seminar

AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by Dr. Bill Croushore and Dr. Greg Schueller to discuss the upcoming AABP embryo transfer seminar. The seminar will take place at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., July 28-30, 2025. The seminar has been approved for 24 hours of continuing education in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.  

This seminar will include didactic lectures to introduce concepts of embryo transfer including scheduling donors, physiology of superovulation and synchronization, non-surgical embryo collection, cryopreservation, recipient synchronization, non-surgical transfer and principles of in vitro fertilization (IVF). The group will then be provided with a demonstration of embryo collection, searching and evaluation, embryo washing, handling and freezing. This will set up participants to perform embryo collection, searching and transfer and freezing embryos on their own with donor cows. 

This course will prepare the novice practitioner to be able to go home and immediately incorporate embryo transfer into their practice. This will provide a new service to their clients or enable practitioners who are performing embryo transfer to brush up on these skills with an expert faculty. Each participant will perform the procedures from start to finish with the faculty providing assistance, feedback and instruction.

AABP member veterinarians are welcome to register for this seminar. Participants are provided with a one-year complimentary membership in the American Embryo Transfer Association (AETA) and one free registration to the AETA annual conference as part of their registration fee. 

To find out more and register for the course, visit this page. To donate to the Edwin Robertson Memorial Scholarship Fund to provide financial assistance to AABP students seeking advanced reproductive training, visit this donation page.