• Do you know the secrets to finding and hiring great employees?
• Have you figured out the sure-fire ways to get superior performance from your current employees?
• Do you know how to keep the great employees you already have?

You can learn all these and more from VIN's Strategies For Success: Maximizing Practice Performance Through Staff. In this 5 week ,10 CE credit course with Don Draper, DVM, PhD, MBA and Dennis McCurnin, DVM, MS, DACVS, you will learn how to recruit, hire, motivate, and retain employees; how to create a practice management team; how to develop an employee policy manual; and how to employ conflict resolution tools for solving problems.

Staffing veterinary practices is a huge headache. Take this CE course and get some relief!

*Credits for this course may be applied toward Certified Veterinary Practice Manager (CVPM) Continual Education requirements by the Veterinary Hospital Manager's Association (VHMA).

Are you going to ACVS?

Are you going to ACVS? Stop by VIN's booth (#114) and say hello! We'd love to meet you in person. (PSST! Use our Cybercafe! Our eight station Cybercafe will be in the Sheraton San Diego Hotel's Lobby. It will be open from October 16 through October 19.)

Effect of Induced Hyperthyroidism by Thyroxine Injection on Cardiovascular Function in Canine Model
A daily intravenous dose of 0.75 mg/kg of thyroxine to dogs for one week causes hyperthyroid cardiotoxicity.

Glucose Tolerance and Lipid Profiles in Dogs Fed Different Fiber Diets
High fiber diet does not alter glucose tolerance in normal dogs, but it may reduce serum cholesterol concentration.

Kitten, FIP Titer Positive
Over ninety precent of cattery cats are coronavirus positive. Only a rare few develop FIP.

Dietary Supplement Health And Education Act
An MD client asked me about a report that some cartilage-sources of glucosamine have been coming from diseased European cattle. Have you heard of this?

How To Course, Part 3
Wednesday, October 16, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use the Library and Search in part 3 of this FREE three part course. (We'll also take a quick tour through Associate!) Email Nate@VIN.com to sign up. If you cannot attend the live How To sessions, please feel free to use the "tutorial" located in the VINDEX (right hand column, VIN's Front Page).
Rounds Room

Sunday Rounds
Sunday, October 20, 10 pm ET -
Join Thomas C. Watson, DVM, DABVP, for Who Needs a Consultant?
Rounds Room

What's Your Diagnosis?
A Different Swimming Place

Speak Out:
Effective Communication

Recent Rounds:
* ACE Inhibitors In Dogs:Help or Hype
* What We Know About WNV
* New Grads: What's Your Diagnosis?

From the Boards:
* West Nile And Dogs
* Feeding A Brain Injured Kitten
* How To Price Surgeries
* Did Boa Give Salmonella To Human?

What's All This About COX, Docs?

• Are you confused by the actions and side effects of COX inhibitors?
• Would you like to UNconfuse yourself while getting FREE CE?

VIN CE can help with the second in a two part series about pain management and the practical application of the new coxib-type COX-2 inhibitors.

In What's All This About COX, Docs?, you will learn the mechanisms by which the newer COX-2 inhibitors may help optimize analgesia in the perioperative period, and how they can be used safely.

Click here to learn more about this FREE CE course.

Review the first in this series: NSAIDs: Understanding their actions and side effects

Thanks to Novartis Animal Health -- Educational Sponsor for these VIN CE events.