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Check out VIN's Bookstore! To go to VIN's Bookstore, click the Bookstore button on the main Message Boards screen, or use VINdex (right column, Front Page). The VIN Bookstore has everything from Alternative Medicine to Zoonoses from all your favorite information sources. Featured Item:
Compensation and Benefits, Third Edition
List $94.00 - VINner Price: $84.60
This book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable source of practice benchmarks available for compensation and benefits. The newly revised third edition of Compensation & Benefits is chock full of important data to help your keep your practice competitive. New to this edition:
Analysis of the factors that affect veterinarians' salaries, including genter and years of experience A "Story Behind the Numbers" section describes significant differences in salaries and benefits by geographic region, metro status and size of practice. At-a-glance profile sections on each job title, including the most common benefits packages and salaries Compensation and Benefits includes a helpful 20-page Summary of Results including the following information: - Salaries, bonuses, and commissions
- Compensation methods
- Non-veterinarian salaries and hourly wages
- Salary by years in position
- Benefits (sick/vacation/personal time, holidays, retirement plans, CE allowance, insurance, license fees, association fees, employee discounts, uniforms)
- Key figures in graph format for easier understanding
Softcover, perfect-bound, 144 pages, AAHA Press
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Searchable Journals and Articles!
Browse or search 80+ veterinary journals, plus veterinary related articles from the biomedical literature. Author summaries are available for most articles. Journals are listed both alphabetically and by type (Veterinary, Human, or Misc. Biomedical) in the journal library.
Interested in Equine Reproduction and Infertility Topics?
VIN and AAEP are offering a FREE CE course in May. If you're interested in participating for CE units, enroll now for Equine Reproduction. If you're interested in learning, but don't need the credits, you need do nothing now. We'll see you May 16th for the interactive, real-time session.
Treatment of Neotrombicula autumnalis dermatitis in dogs using two topical permethrin-pyriproxyfen combinations
In this study, 15 dogs naturally infested with Neotrombicula were affected with moderate to severe pruritic dermatitis. The dermatitis resolved with successful treatment of the parasitic infestation. In 14 dogs, treatment using a topical permethrin-pyriproxyfen combination (pump-spray or 'line-on') was effective within one to three weeks. Two applications were necessary in four dogs.
Treatment of Equine Metabolic Syndrome
Equine Metabolic Syndrome is characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, and the risk of laminitis.
Ultrasonographic Findings in Dogs with Hyperammonemia: 90 Cases (2000-2002)
Results suggest that ultrasonography is a reliable diagnostic method to noninvasively characterize the underlying disease in dogs with hyperammonemia. A dilated left testicular or ovarian vein was a reliable indicator of acquired portosystemic shunts.
Field Cases of Feline Ciguatera
Cats presented had normal pupillary responses, no excess salivation, no diarrhea, and no vomiting. All cats affected with ciguatera did demonstrate quadriplegia, heightened pain sensation, normal alertness, and tachycardia; this set of signs is not seen with other types of neurotoxicosis.
Reconciling My Vaccination Booster Opinions With Those Of My Employer
I am in a quandry. I want to follow the feline vax recommendations. I strongly believe that yearly vaccination is not correct. I have a new job. The rule is that we vaccinate yearly unless I can come up with a darn good reason not to ...
Differences In Glucometer Readings
The reality is, you should not expect any method of measuring blood glucose to be all that accurate, and it doesn't matter. All you really want is broad categories; that is, you want your glucose assay to answer the question: 'is the blood glucose very high, or high, or normal, or low, or very low?'. And your assays are doing that. As long as you expect nothing better from your assays, you're doing fine ...
Fluphenazine For Horse
The current AHSA magazine has a list of trainer and owner suspensions for violations. Probably 90% of the violations were for this drug use in horses. Used to only see suspensions for reserpine, ace, and bute. I guess it's the new fad in training circles.
Do You Charge Separately for Sedation in Euthanasia Cases?
I agree with all who say that the price for a euthanasia should allow you to include all you need to get the job done in a humane, empathetic, and efficient fashion.
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Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases:
Remembering the Zebras
Global terrorism isn't limited to direct attacks on people. An excellent way to control a country is by controlling its food sources. Are you a trained, front-line defense against animal diseases that can cut your country's food supply, spread into the human population, and cause panic in your countrymen -- or are you still pretty clueless? VIN CE can help you prepare!
This 6 CE credit Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases: Remembering the Zebras course will cover the clinical signs and gross lesions of these diseases -- and the role of the practitioner and other professionals in controlling the outbreak. Veterinarians are the best frontline defense. Be ready. Sign up for this CE course today. Course Description:
Increased international movement of people and animals, and the current geopolitical climate, make incursions of exotic diseases more likely than ever before. The national response to an exotic disease incursion begins with the local practicing veterinarian, who must be able to rapidly recognize the clinical signs and scenarios that are suggestive of various exotic diseases. This course will review the major exotic and emerging animal diseases, emphasizing the clinical signs and gross lesions of these diseases in various species and the role of the practitioner and other professionals. Major emphasis will be placed on including exotic diseases in the differential diagnosis of various clinical presentations and the importance of laboratory support for the diagnosis of both "horses and zebras." Dates:
May 20 - July 1st, 2004 Interactive Sessions:
Thursdays; 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24;
10:00 -11:00 PM ET (USA) Instructor:
Steve Sorden, DVM, PhD, DACVP CE Hours: 6 CE Credits Tuition:
Member/$86, Non-Member/$141 before May 6th, 2004;
Member/$96, Non-Member/$156 after May 6th, 2004;
VSPN Okay To Register: Visit Exotic and Emerging Animal Diseases: Remembering the Zebras and click on the Enroll now link. Interested in other online VIN CE? Scheduled courses include: Click the CE button on VIN's main nav bar to learn more about these courses -- and to sign up!
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