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Learn About VINx and More at NAVC!
If you're heading to NAVC, stop by booth 301 in the Gaylord to learn how to streamline your practice communication with VINx. VINx - VetTools, PetTools, eVetSites - is part of the VIN family created to help you communicate with your staff, connect with clients, and succeed at your practice.

eVetSites offers websites for the veterinary profession while helping you build an informative, creative online presence.

VetTools is focused on streamlining practice management and enhancing patient care anywhere, anytime – even from the comfort of your own home or mobile device, and is included with your VIN membership.

PetTools helps your clients participate in their pet's health while strengthening their connections with you. Offering customizable online medical records, reminders (email and postcard), pet health requests, personalized email campaigns, and more, PetTools is available for a small monthly fee.

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VIN Continual Education Courses
Planning on taking some continual education this year? VIN online CE is one of the most popular ways to earn CE credits. Direct interaction with instructors and fellow participants on message boards and real time sessions are part of what makes VIN CE unique.

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NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK, reported for YOU...

• New student loan repayment plan brings new considerations
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• Micro-imaging the cardiovascular system
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• Fight continues in British Columbia after discrimination findings
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• Jobs forecast for veterinarians better than average
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• Report rekindles debate on rural veterinary workforce
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Evolving stories:
- Is there an association between veterinary practice and De Quervain syndrome?
- Of stethoscopes and hearing aids
- Personal safety on field calls
- Beware of Neoplasene

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Frontline Is Toxic to Rabbits

Texas Farm Radio

• Impaction Colic (revised)

VetzInsight

• Our Understanding of a Disease Changes over Time

Transient diabetes mellitus in a domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo)
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Treatment included insulin therapy and a low carbohydrate diet. Diabetes mellitus resolved 54 days later, and insulin therapy was discontinued.

Clinical characteristics of horses and foals diagnosed with cleft palate in a referral population: 28 cases (1988-2011)
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Short-term outcomes included euthanasia in 50%, surgical repair in 11%, supportive care in 4%, and no treatment in 32% of cases; 46% of the animals survived to discharge.

Coprophagia
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This article discusses causes, treatment options including pharmacological options, and behavior strategies such as avoidance, redirection, and response substitution.

Cat With Elevated Symmetric Dimethylarginine Assay (SDMA) That Normalized Within Short Time Period; Interpreting SDMA Assays In Cats
This is the best explanation anyone has every given me about SDMA. I feel much more comfortable with it now.

Oregon To Change Veterinary Clinic Ownership Law
The proposed rules allow an individual to be named managing veterinarian of no more than four separate facilities at any one time; none of the facilities may be more than 100 miles apart. The managing veterinarian also must be physically present at each facility at least five days in a 30-day period.

Anti-Vaccine Propaganda: What Can Be Done To Change People's Incorrect Beliefs?
Thank you for raising important issues here, because that gets all of us thinking about them and perhaps helping us to overcome our inertia and do something more proactive about them.

Dealing With Client Expectations That Strays Should Be Treated For Free
"I can tell this is really important to you and I want to help, so I will match you dollar for dollar to help this dog. It looks like it is going to take about 1200 dollars to fix. Do you want to leave that 600 as cash or as a credit card?"

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VIN Rounds
Sunday, January 17 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, January 18 - 2 a.m. GMT)
Join Kevin Jepsen-Grant, DVM, for Common Radiographic Pitfalls and Fakeouts.
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Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, January 19 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, January 20 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about new grad issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 3
Wednesday, January 20 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Thursday, January 21 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
The VIN Representative Committee will show you how to get more out of your VIN experience.
Email HowTo@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

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Want to See What You've Been Missing?
(@ = VINcast available; R = Replay available)

• Toxicology of "Recreational Drugs" @ (R) Interim
• Keeping Pipes Unclogged: Practical Anticoagulation (R) VIN/VECCS
• Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Managing Eye Cases @ (R)
• Diagnostics, Your Next Veterinary Career? @ (R) Student Rounds
• Octopus Anatomy & Common Microscopic Findings @ (R) VIN/AAFV
• Maintaining Physical & Mental Wellness @ (R) Student Rounds
• Medical Math Demystified! (R) VIN/VECCS
• Quarantine for Public and Private Aquariums @ (R) VIN/AAFV

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To all the new practice owners out there
Last month I reached the one year mark of owning my first practice. I thought I would share some of the things I have learned over the past year to encourage those who are newbies like I was.

Book Review of the Week
Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Techniques for Veterinary Technicians
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Edible And Harmful Plants For Reptiles

New Quick Poll:
(Look for it on the lower left side of the VIN Front Page.)
If a patient who regularly is seen by a nearby practice presents to you because the other clinic was unavailable, after you examine/treat them, are you most likely to...

Visit the Archived Quick Polls page to participate in previous Quick Poll questions and view results.

New Proceedings
- Exotic Animal Medicine for the Clinical Practitioner Conference 2015 (AAZV/EAMCP 2015)
- 2015 Pacific Veterinary Conference (PacVet 2015)

Associate - New, Updated & Revised
Soft tissue sarcomas: Canine, Feline
Explore the rest of Associate!

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 which upcoming conferences VIN will be attending. Be sure to stop by the Cyber Café and/or other VIN booths if you’re attending NAVC, WVC, or SAVMA.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register, and find more upcoming CE.

Advanced Nutrition Module 2
January 18 - February 11, 2016

This course we will review the aspects of the disease process that can be affected through dietary changes and will cover goals for nutritional modification. We will also provide key nutritional factors, goals for feeding management and cover selecting a diet ± dietary supplements and a feeding plan for these patients.

Basic Necropsy Technique
March 28 - April 14, 2016

This course is designed to familiarize the attendee with basic necropsy techniques, common post-mortem changes, the meaning of pattern in lesion recognition and types of lesions. By the end of the course, the attendee should be able to recognize common lesions, exudates, form a morphologic diagnosis and perform a basic, complete necropsy.

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