We would like to formally invite you to join us for the 35th European Congress of Veterinary Internal Medicine for Companion Animals, which will be held from the 18th until the 20th of September in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The Annual Congress of the ECVIM-CA to be held in 2025, is already the 35th edition. In 2024 the congress had around 1,600 participants on site and 150 on demand coming from 49 countries all over the world!

This congress is a very well-known event on the veterinary internal medicine calendar. The program has streams of lectures organized by special interest societies, such as comparative gastroenterology, hepatology, nephrology and urology, oncology, internal medicine, cardiology and feline medicine. There are also oral abstract sessions, again organized by the specialist societies, and poster exhibits of abstracts. In 2024 there were 130 abstracts accepted as oral presentation and 138 as poster presentation. The congress will also inform specialists how scientific research is evolving and offer insights into future developments. We hope to see you all in Maastricht!

Through five objectives ECVIM-CA wants to raise the standards of companion animal internal medicine in Europe and establish an internationally recognised specialist title. Recognition as a specialist is important now there is free movement of veterinarians between member states. of the European Union.