Starting Out or Keeping Up: The VIN Student Center Has the Resources You Need!
The VIN Student Center can help you find and prepare for your first (or your 50th) job. Use the References and Dictionaries to brush up on those medical terms and pronunciations you've forgotten since your first years as a student. Take advantage of resources like www.vetquest.com (search for job postings or place an ad of your own!) and the AVMA Veterinary Career Center (new job postings every day!) and articles on finding Intern/Resident positions. Thanks to the continuous efforts of the VIN community, the Student Center has grown into a resource to serve all VINners. Meet and network with fellow students, find information resources gathered and organized specifically for students (and students at heart), and access the full resources of VIN, including VIN CE courses. Use the new Tools to get help, search the VIN Library (CTRL-S) or open the VINdex menu (CTRL-E). E-mail to Feedback@vin.com if you'd like to contribute to the Student Center or just share your thoughts about the new features. VIN News Service Needs Your Feedback NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss
News reported for YOU... Be a VIN Newshound:
VNS is here to give YOU a voice and report news that is important to YOU. Got an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Post it on the boards or email News@vin.com. Share News with nonVINners -- The VIN News Service (without access to the community discussions) is now publicly available at news.vin.com. Check it out and share it.
Have You Explored Associate Yet?
Associate can help you with your feline, canine, public health and foreign animal disease/bioterrorism questions. - The Book sections of Associate (canine and feline) have many new and updated disease chapters that serve as a great "starting point" for your clinical questions.
- The public health and foreign animal disease sections are invaluable up-to-date resources to help you with questions regarding zoonoses, bioterrorism, and foreign animal diseases.
- The Tool section allows you to work through cases, clinical sign by clinical sign, building a list of diseases to consider. (It won't build a true "differential diagnosis" but it is a great reminder of conditions you might have forgotten to consider in those "tougher" cases.)
VIN Rounds: Take 'em With You!
If you miss a VIN Rounds and don't have time to sit down and read the transcript, now you can listen to the VINcast from your computer or download it to your iPod or other MP3 player. And if the voice sounds familiar, you're not imagining things! VINCasts are recorded by VIN's own Nate Lissant and Wendy Smith! Finally -- all in one place...
International Association forAquatic Animal Medicine Association Proceedings
The entire collection of IAAAM Conference Proceedings is now online. Proceedings from 1968 to 2008 are currently available.
New in VeterinaryPartner:
Texas Farm Radio
Transmission of coccidioidomycosis to a human via a cat bite
We report an unusual case of coccidioidomycosis in the arm of a veterinary assistant without pulmonary symptoms. The patient had been bitten on the hand by a cat which was later diagnosed with disseminated disease. The patient responded to fluconazole therapy and remained asymptomatic at 2 months after cessation of therapy.
Chromoblastomycosis: an overview of clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment
There are three treatment modalities (physical treatment, chemotherapy, and combination therapy), but their success is related to the causative agent, the clinical form, and severity of the chromoblastomycosis lesions.
Pavlovian conditioning in the veterinary clinic
Clinical presentations of cutaneous lesions vary widely, including erythematous papules, verrucous plaques, and deep subcutaneous abscesses. The clinical distribution and course of disease are also variable, depending on the age and immune competency of the patient.
Client is refusing to euthanize
But when I discussed it was time to consider euthanasia - she assured me she was always on the lookout for her dogs' quality of life, she would NEVER let them suffer and the minute she felt Chucky was suffering she would schedule the euthanasia.
Prehabilitate a cruciate dog?
The issue with swimming is that it promotes excessive flexion, which might favor meniscal tearing (there is a study showing that swimming dogs flex their stifles more than dogs normally do on land).
Next step for young cat that is heartworm antigen negative and antibody positive; should we be screening cats for heartworm disease?
So the question then becomes, what is the value in knowing a cat has heartworm, if it's subclinical?
Clients with multiple pets: do they deserve larger discount or free services?
Vaccinating a dozen cats at a greatly reduced rate can be much more profitable than not vaccinating them at all.
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 Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, May 5, 9:30 p.m. EDT
(Wednesday, May 6, 1:30 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Stop by and chat with your fellow VIN addicts!
How To Use VIN: Part 1
Wednesday, May 6, 9:30 pm EDT
(Thursday, May 7, 1:30 am GMT/UTC)
Learn how to use VIN's Knowledgebase.
Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.
Sunday Rounds
Sunday, May 10, 10 p.m. EDT
(Monday, May 11, 2 a.m. GMT/UTC)
Join Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP, for Herbs, Acupuncture, And Massage (Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine) For Cats.
This Week's Rounds Schedule
Use the Rounds link to join these discussions. Want to See What You've Been Missing?
Click the Rounds button on VIN's main navigation bar and read the transcripts of the last few Rounds, click the complete list of Rounds to get to the list of the last 300 Rounds transcripts or click on Rounds and Discussions in the VIN Library. Rounds are also searchable via the Search button. Just remember to choose Rounds (under the Clinical Resources tab) as the "Source" in your search parameters. For All You Multi-Taskers:
Download VINCasts to your MP3 player and listen to previous Rounds sessions while you run errands, exercise or steal a few minutes of me-time. Recent Rounds
@ = VINCast available for this session
 Member Benefit:
Plan to hire a new grad!
Many of the best graduating seniors are regular VIN users. Post your position in Vetquest Classifieds. Please use the Positions Offered -- New Graduates category as this is where we encourage the 2009 Graduates to search for open positions and post their resumes. This is a FREE service provided by VIN and VETQUEST.
Get More From VIN
Got Staff?
The Veterinary Support Personnel Network was created specifically for your technicians, practice managers and other staff members to have access to their own message boards, chats and CE. Have your staff go to www.vspn.org to register! It's free! Educate Your Clients
Help your clients to be better informed pet owners with the Client Education Resources listed in the VIN Library. Find even more no-cost, advertising-free, independent online information that you can trust at VeterinaryPartner.com. Need Help?
Having trouble logging in to VIN? Questions about your membership? Can't find that reference you need for a tough case? Help is a click, email or phone call away! (Hint: you can find this page anytime by clicking HELP on the main VIN Navigation Bar.)
Funny Bones:
Grammar snobs, unite!
"Boss just bought a beautiful new sign for the clinic with a new updated logo. Along with the new signs went up a sign that says "Veterinarian Parking" and an arrow to our only parking lot. I am not good enough with grammar to be a snob, but everytime we drive by it, my SO asks where the clients are supposed to park."
What's Your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
* Ophthalmology Fun 82
* Zoonosis Case 14
* Zoonosis Case 15
Associate - Updated and New:
Fever of unknown origin in cats and dogs
Explore the rest of Associate!
Book Review of the Week
Equine Practice - Surgical Complications and Management Strategies
Purchase it in the VIN Bookstore! Website of the Week
gFARAD: Global Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank and more... eVetsites Tip of the Week
Modifying Page Titles for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend or contribute a paper to a veterinary conference? Check out the On The Road With VIN folder, or the Press Releases folder, to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their Web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: IAAAM and AVA.
NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register and find more upcoming CE.
Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Part I
June 7 - September 6, 2009 Participants will be introduced to theories of management and concepts vital to quality planning. Examples of ISO-based and GLP standards will be included. Laboratory design, Westgard Rules, QC Validation and Sigma Metrics will be covered. Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory, Part II
October 4 - December 20, 2009 Participants will study personnel specifications, job descriptions, training records and employee appraisals, learn about audits in the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory and determination of reference intervals. Improvement Opportunities, external Quality Assurance performance and a Quality Plan for the laboratory are the final topics in Part II. *NOTE: Part I is a prerequisite for Part II. For information on other CE courses check out the Course Catalog on the CE Main Page. Please visit How-To's Of Online CE for details about how to register and participate in online CE courses. If you're looking for information on CE opportunities for veterinary technicians, receptionists or practice managers, please visit the VSPN CE page. VSPN offers courses tailored to veterinary support personnel, and certain VIN courses also are open to VPSN members.
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