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Veterinary Students -- Turn Your Brilliant Ideas Into Money for School!
The VIN Foundation announced the first annual Solutions for the Profession Competition. Open to students currently enrolled in veterinary school, entrants are asked to submit an essay outlining “An Innovative and Implementable Solution to a Current Problem Confronting the Veterinary Profession”.

There are three cash prizes available to help support tuition and education related expenses. Many of the entries will be shared here, so be sure to stay tuned. Please spread the word to veterinary students!

Struggling With Nocturnal Schedule
No matter what I do, I find this schedule very challenging. I do not get enough sunlight, I do not see my husband often, and making friends is challenging due to my schedule (I moved out of state for this job, so I am in a new location). I intermittently feel down, particularly on my nights off when I am awake and by myself at 4 am.

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

• Cat declaw under fire in New Jersey
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• Visiting Dr. Nur
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• NY veterinarians can swap spay-neuter services for CE credits
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• Aggressive pets adopted out in quest to save animals’ lives
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• When safety, learning conflict in veterinary school
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• How veterinarians handle aggressive patients
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Evolving stories:
- School closures leave veterinary-tech students in lurch
- Antech litigation threat takes new twist
- U.S. veterinarians working abroad

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Cimetidine (Tagamet) revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Lacerations to the Horse’s Hoof Wall revised

• The "Trainwreck" Incident

Initial characterization of stiff skin-like syndrome in West Highland white terriers
Affected dogs exhibited markedly indurated skin that was attached firmly to the underlying tissue and incomplete closure of the mouth and eyes. The syndrome most likely follows an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.

Severe hyponatraemia in foals: clinical findings, primary diagnosis and outcome
A total of 50 of the 69 foals (72.5%) with severe hyponatraemia survived to hospital discharge, and 38 of them (76%) survived at least 12 months following discharge.

Comparative efficacy of intranasal and oral vaccines against Bordetella bronchiseptica in dogs
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Although both intranasal and oral Bb vaccines stimulated immune responses associated with disease sparing following Bb infection, the intranasal route of delivery conferred superior clinical outcomes.

Differentials And Empirical Treatment Options For Guinea Pig With Acute Joint Disease; Use Of Oral Buprenorphine In Guinea Pigs And Other Rodents
Buprenorphine is relatively safe, when given orally, because of its known poor oral bioavailability. This dose in rats appears to provide analgesia, and I have used it empirically for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other pet rodents.

Dog With Food Aggression Not Interested In Treats; Treating Food- And Fear-Based Aggression
Some dogs that are not particularly food motivated seem to have some degree of nausea. This leads them to not want food -- but also to not want it taken from them, either.

Treating And Preventing Respiratory Infections In Pet Store Puppies
The big thing is for them to stop doing damage control (treatment) and improve their dog sourcing, arrival inspection, arrival quarantine, and routine health management. Without that, it's largely futile.

Hyperthyroid Cat With Hypertension
The adenoma may change to a thyroid carcinoma. (About 10% will become thyroid carcinoma by the time they've been on methimazole for 2 years, and about 21% will be thyroid carcinoma by the time they've been on methimazole for 4 years.)

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VIN Rounds
Sunday, December 11 - 9 p.m. ET
(Monday, December 12 - 2 a.m. GMT)
Join James E. Collins, DVM, PhD, DACVP, for The Doctor is Logged In: Using Telemedicine in your Veterinary Practice.
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Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, December 13 - 9:30 p.m. ET
(Wednesday, December 14 - 2:30 a.m. GMT)
Need to vent about student issues?
Christina McRae, DVM, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN, Part 2
Wednesday, December 14 - 9:30 p.m. ET
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The VIN Representative Committee will show you how to get more out of your VIN experience.
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Websites of the Week
AAHA/IAAHPC End-of-Life Care Guidelines (2016)

New Proceedings
2014 Congrès National de l'Association Française des Vétérinaires pour Animaux de Compagnie (AFVAC 2014)

New Quick Poll:
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What are your views on cat declaws?

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NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
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Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory Part I
January 1 - April 19, 2017
Presenter(s): Kathleen P. Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DECVCP, MRCPath, MRCVS, Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management; Ernst Leidinger, DVM, DECVCP, Specialist for Clinical Pathologist (national); Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet., DECVCP; A. Russell Moore, DVM, MS, DACVP; Emma Hooijberg, BVSc GPCert(SAP) DECVCP; Unity Jeffery, VetMB, PhD, DACVP (clinical pathology), MRCVS

The "Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory" course is designed to provide an introduction to and practical application of quality management in the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory. It is given in two parts. Part I is a prerequisite for Part II. In Part I, participants will be introduced to theories of management and concepts vital to quality planning. Examples of ISO-based and GLP standards are included. Laboratory design, Westgard Rules, QC Validation, and Sigma Metrics are covered.

Seizure Management: Depolarization, Repolarization, and What we can do about it
January 11 - February 18, 2017
Presenter(s): Anne Elizabeth Katherman, DVM, MS, DACVIM/Neurology; Dawn Boothe, Phd, DVM, DACVIM/Internal Medicine, DACVCP

The primary purpose of this course is to provide an in depth understanding of how various anticonvulsants work and how to use this information to make decisions regarding which anticonvulsant to use for a given patient and when to alter the dose or change the drug. The course will include a discussion of seizure pathophysiology, general principles of seizure management, drug monitoring and a discussion of the most commonly used anticonvulsants in the canine and feline species.

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