As a VIN member (VINner), you are part of the largest group practice in the world.

VINners are up-to-date and informed. VINners access a daily veterinary newspaper that keeps them informed about the issues that affect veterinarians with a broad range of sources including trusted clinical journals and VIN's message boards where veterinarians , world-wide, share their knowledge and experiences every day.

VINners are interactive. Every day there are over 500 active message board discussions ongoing between VINners. The medical discussions are overseen by 197 VIN consultant/editors who are anxious to help you with your cases. Each week you can attend and participate in live Rounds sessions presented by VIN's consultants and guest speakers leading interactive group discussions on all sorts of clinical and practice management topics.

VINners have instant and easy access to the most comprehensive searchable online source for veterinary information. The powerful and easy to use VIN search engine helps you quickly locate the information you need from over 350,000 articles from thousands of trusted sources including 80 core veterinary journals, archived VIN Message Boards, Rounds discussions, Conference Proceedings and Client Handouts.

When you would rather go straight to the source, the VIN library makes everything you need available including journal abstracts, Plumb's Drug Handbook, a growing collection of online texts, a comprehensive MSDS collection, practice forms, Client education resources, a drug label database, the Veterinary Dental Encyclopedia and so much more! VIN's librarians are veterinarians who continually work to provide you with clinically useful, current information. They understand what you need in your practice and their only goal is to make it easy for you to get the information you need.

VINners can conveniently access high quality, comprehensive CE classes from the comfort of their home or office. VIN CE instructors are among the top experts in their field. With VIN CE, you get clinically-oriented, in-depth learning and a comprehensive selection of courses. You learn what you want at your own pace. You set the schedule. You read the class material at times you choose; you read and post to message boards at times you choose; and for those who enjoy the interactivity of a classroom, there is a weekly interactive classroom session. Not available during the scheduled classroom time? Called away for emergency? No worries! Each classroom session is recorded for you to enjoy at your leisure.

Need CE credits? All VIN CE courses are RACE and/or VHMA approved.

Beyond the obvious benefits of being a VIN member, VINners and their practices benefit in many ways:

• Send your staff to the Veterinary Support Personnel Network (www.vspn.org) to participate in a supportive community for non-veterinarians working in the field of veterinary medicine. Membership to VSPN is free of charge.
• Go to www.vetquest.com to post and view job listings, buy and sell equipment and so much more! VetQuest classified ads are free of charge.
• Educate your clients at www.veterinarypartner.com. Satisfy your clients' desire for information online from a source you trust - VIN.
• Buy books and save money. The VIN Bookstore (store.vin.com) has textbooks and other information resources. Save 10% or more off the list price every day. (Free shipping on orders more than $90). Enjoy these savings as part of your VIN membership.
• Design YOUR web site. eVetsite systems, a VIN service company makes web design easy. Multiple formats and styles (plus the advice of a helpful staff) will help you make your site stand out. VIN members save 33%. You and your staff control YOUR web site.

The VIN Message Boards let VIN members (VINners) discuss current cases, published and /unpublished literature, drug protocols, and much, much more. Message Board folders cover medical and practice management topics, industry information, and more.

Every medical folder is overseen by qualified specialists, but any VINner can participate in a case discussion. (Plus, VINners can add images to their posts, making it easier for the consultants to guide them through their difficult cases.) This interaction is what makes VIN the "largest veterinary hospital in the world" and a priceless asset to every veterinarian.

In addition, discussions in the VIN Message Boards are archived in the searchable Database, so VINners can quickly find previous discussions pertinent to their cases.

The VIN database and library comprise the most comprehensive one-stop source for veterinary information. The easy to use, yet powerful, SEARCH quickly locates the information you need by searching journals (over 500,000 articles in 80 core journals), many conference proceedings, the archived discussions from VIN's Message Boards, and the transcripts from the interactive Rounds sessions. No more tearing out articles or attempting to cross reference them in your own filing system. Just do a quick Search, and read the abstract to get the information you need. (Full-text copies of articles are available via a fee-based document delivery service.) VIN contains the equivalent of a veterinary college journal library, and its right at your fingertips!)

If you prefer to browse through information, instead of doing a Search, VIN's Library is for you. You can scroll through the journal abstracts, journal by journal, page through the conference proceedings, brush up on your in-house microbiology skills with the Microbiology Image Library, read up about a particular disease in Associate (or work up a case using the Tool function of Associate), download forms from VIN's sample form library to use in your hospital, and more. The VIN librarians are veterinarians who continually work to provide you with clinically useful, current information.

Over the past few years, on behalf of the community, VIN has developed strategic partnerships to produce online proceedings of more than a dozen of the most well-known annual veterinary conferences. Because of these partnerships, we have made it possible for the attendees to access the conference notes prior to, during, and after the dates of the conference. Plus -- after the conference, the proceedings become a part of the VIN database, allowing VIN members (VINners) who were unable to attend the conferences to benefit from the information! This year, the community has benefited from the following veterinary conferences:

• Western Veterinary Conference (WVC)
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)
• European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM)
• American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP)
• World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA)
• Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA)
• Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference (ACVC)
• International Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Symposium (IVECCS)
• WALTHAMŪ Diets/Ohio State University
• WALTHAM Feline Medicine Symposia/Meetings
• Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (ACVSc)
• American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP)
• American Heartworm Society (AHS)
• And many more

VIN offers high-quality educational courses, open to VIN members and non-members. Courses are held online and are taught by leading specialists. Online Continual Education allows you to expand your knowledge - right in your home or office -- with courses provided in a convenient, easy-to-use format. VIN's course offerings are comparable in scope to those of veterinary schools, and are unmatched by any other online service in any profession.

VIN is first and foremost a community of veterinarians working toward the common goal of assisting each member to be the best that he or she can be. Occasionally, VIN launches new value-added opportunities for members.

Here are just a few of the recently added benefits to the VIN community:

• Veterinarypartner.com: This site, open to the public, helps you educate your clients via a trustworthy online resource.
• EVetSites: eVetSite Systems, a VIN service/company, makes it easy for veterinarians or their staff to create a veterinary hospital website. Multiple formats and styles are available. eVetSite Systems makes web site design easy and affordable!
• VIN Bookstore: The VIN Bookstore stocks textbooks and other information resources. VIN members can save 10% or more off the list price every day. VIN also provides free shipping on orders over $90.00.

Your VIN Consultants
As a member of the VIN community your VIN consultants provide you with up-to-date knowledge, experience, and opinions. With 197 consultants covering the Message Board folders, VINners receive reliable, enthusiastic help with their medical cases and practice management problems. VIN's Consultants are dedicated to helping their online colleagues with their patients, clients, and practice lives.

VIN Consultant Chairperson:
Dr. Paul Pion (paul@vin.com)

Your VIN Representatives
VIN Representatives are VIN members (VINners) who love VIN and enjoy teaching others how to get more from VIN. Got a question, problem, concern? Ask your buddy for help. Read about them, discover what they like, where they live and work and put a face to the name! As a new VIN member, you'll receive a buddy who will contact you quickly after you sign on to help you when you need it.

VIN Representative Program Chairperson:
Dr. John Daugherty (DogDoctor@aol.com)

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VIN is for veterinarians, by veterinarians. Since 1991, we have offered all colleagues a 30 Day Free Trial. We invite all interested colleagues who find VIN useful to join our community. We never want any colleague to feel they are being "sold on" VIN.

We invite you to take a no risk 30 day FREE TRIAL of VIN before deciding if VIN is for you.

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Whether you are a solo-practitioner or an associate or owner in a multi-veterinarian hospital, you can choose from a variety of membership plans to fit your needs. You can even elect to automatically renew your membership, and take the worry out of remembering.

Group memberships to VIN provide significant savings to hospitals with multiple veterinarians. Group memberships allow you and your associates to:

• personalize VIN the way you like it
• obtain CE credit for classes
• post and interact with colleagues and specialists under your own name
• receive added savings on membership rates for interns and residents at the practice
• keep your username and other personal and security information secure
• minimize the risk to your VIN account if colleagues/staff leave the practice
• send MyVIN colleague invitations from yourself and not your associate

Recent Graduates, welcome to the profession! To help relieve the stress of being a new graduate, you can save 70% off normal VIN membership rates for the first 12 months after you receive your veterinary degree. Then, for the next 12 months, you can save 40%. These discounts may also be applied to the cost of VIN CE enrollment!

Membership Types and Rates:

• Individual membership $55.00/month or $680/year
• 2 veterinarian group membership $82.50/month or $1020.00/year (1.5x the individual membership rate)
• 3-5 veterinarian group membership $110.00/month or $1360.00/year (2x the individual membership rate)
• Recent Graduate first 12 month's membership $16.50/month or $204.00/year
• Recent Graduate second 12 month's membership $33.00/month or $408.00/year

Payment Plans:

• Monthly Payment: Choose this option and your credit card will be automatically charged each month.
• Choose this option and your credit card will be automatically charged each year. Because this option is the easiest for you and for VIN's membership team, you receive additional savings. You'll save $30 (regular annual single membership), $45 (2 member annual group), or $60 (3-5 member annual group). We'll remind you by email prior to charging your credit card for next year's renewal. This discount is only available when you pay your yearly membership by credit card and have valid billing information on file with us at the time of your renewal. This discount is not available in conjunction with the New Graduate discounts, though you may still elect to automate your renewal. NO RISK to you. Choosing the autorenew option does not "lock you in" in any way. You can ask us not to charge the next year's fee or ask that it be refunded at anytime for a pro-rated refund of any unused membership time fees.
• Annual Payment: Choose this option and pay with either a credit card or a check. You'll receive a reminder (invoice) when your membership is due for renewal. Yes, the fee is slightly higher than the monthly fee because we are not anxious to collect your membership fees in advance and if you choose this option, we feel obliged to ask you before we charge your membership fee and, given your busy schedule, can translate to many emails and phone calls from the VIN membership staff (see Annual Auto-Renew option above)
• Three Installments: Choose this option and pay with either a credit card or a check for your yearly membership over a 6-month period (at 2-month intervals). This plan rate includes a nominal surcharge.

Tax Deductibility:
In most cases, your VIN membership fees are a tax-deductible business expense. Check with your tax professional.

Risk Free, Unconditional Guarantee: You may discontinue your VIN membership at any time, for any reason, and receive a pro-rated refund of any unused membership time fees.

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