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Note: The three-part "How To Use VIN" course can be taken live (on the first three Wednesday nights of each month), or you can do it as self study. (To sign up for the course, email Nate@VIN.com, and tell him you'd like to learn how to use VIN.)
NEW! Try the new movie version of How To. This movie wsa designed for veterinary students, to show them what VIN is and how to use it,
but we think you too will find it very useful.
Topics
Message Boards: Posting, Time Parameters, Add A Folder To My Boards, Remove A Folder From My Boards, etc., MyVIN
Associate
On the right hand side of the screen are the various time searches available.
There are 4 main choices:
FIND SINCE -- This option allows you to check the Message Boards/Folders for a specific time frame. The default time period for Find Since can be customized in MyVIN (main navigation bar).
FIND NEW -- This shows all messages (new threads, new replies to threads) added since FIND NEW was last clicked.
REDO FIND NEW -- This allows you to continue a Find New session that was interrupted by a computer problem. REDO FIND NEW allows you to keep redoing the FIND NEW search until you have finished it.
FIND ALL MESSAGES -- Allows you to access ALL messages for a particular Message Board/Folder.
On the left hand side of the screen is the list of the various boards and their folders.
The Associations And Foundations board has folders for various groups, such as AAFP, AAHA, etc.
The Vet Industry board is a collection of folders for various companies, such as Hill’s, Purina, Bayer.
The Vet To Vet board is where clinical questions are posted. This is where you can interact with specialists about cases, interact with others' cases, etc.
VIN Information is for posting questions about VIN. How to do something, how to make a search of the database work., etc.
You can choose to do a Find Since, or Redo Find New or a Find New on ALL the Message Boards, or on only a specifice Board or Folder. (However, if you use FIND NEW on only one Folder, the Find New is reset for ALL of the Folders - so a Find Since would usually be best when selectively choosing one Board or Folder.)
Post a message to the How To Course Session 2 folder
Click the Message Boards button to open the main Message Boards page.
Click the VIN Information board, then use the drop arrow to move within this board to the How To Course Session 2 folder.
Click on the "Post New Message" button at the bottom of the left hand column to bring up a posting form.
Click in the space where it says "Enter your Message here", and type in your message.
Click on the button that says "Post your New Message".
Now, from the main Message Boards page, do a Find Since 4 days on the How To Course Session 2 folder.
Note how many messages you see.
In the upper left hand corner of this window, above the message list, is a box labeled Find Since.
Click on the drop down box to select a different time frame.
Note how many messages are listed now.
Add a folder to My Boards
Do a Find Since 4 days on the How To Course Session 2 folder.
Look for the heart button labeled "Add This Folder To My Boards". It is located under the list of messages (bottom left).
Click on this button. You will get a message that "This folder has been added to MyBoards" in a separate window.
Return to the main Message Board page.
You should now have a new collection of folders, labeled My Boards. You can add and remove folders from this board at any time. This gives you the ability select a subset of the message boards which you can read on a regular basis without having to wade through folders in which you are not interested.
To remove a folder from My Boards, open the folder you wish to remove and click on the heart button labeled "Remove from MyBoards".
My VIN
On VIN's main navigation bar is a button labeled MyVIN.
Click it.
There are many options available in this section of VIN.
You can alter your automatic signature, you can change your email/snail mail address, you can update your telephone number, etc.
Associate (the Book)
Associate is designed to present disease information in a consistent and concise manner. These diseases are organized in chapters. The chapters are divided such that the diseases are either a disease of a system or causal diseases. Furthermore, the etiologies, clinical findings, procedures, and procedure findings are part of a standardized lexicon so that the same finding will be used in all the diseases where it is found. This is what allows the Associate knowledge bases to be used as a clinical decision support tool. Each disease description contains the following headings:
Disease nomenclature (including synonyms)
Disease description (brief overview, pathogenesis)
Etiologies
Breed predilection
Sex predilection
Age predilection
Clinical findings
Diagnostic procedures and findings
Preventive measures
Special considerations
Treatment
Bibliographic citation list
Zoonotic diseases are so marked after the disease name to highlight this fact for the clinician.
Associate (the Tool)
Associate is designed as a clinical tool, to teach an individual to think clinically. Associate takes you quickly and painlessly from signs and findings to diseases and syndromes. Associate is a problem solving information reference that fits the practice paradigm. Associate is a tool intended to help you organize your thoughts and widen your list of differentials to consider when data from hypothetical and real case scenarios are input.
Although a wonderful tool for widening the list of differentials to consider, it is important that the clinician recognize the limitations of "pattern matching".
Click here to read the HELP file for Associate.
If you'd like to practice working your way through a case (using the Tool function of Associate), feel free to use VIN's archived Public Health cases.
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