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EVERYTHING

YOU NEED

IN ONE PLACE

For Veterinarians, By Veterinarians®

Built for every stage of your veterinary career

Whether you're in school, or fresh out of school, or decades into practice, VIN meets you where you are.

Practitioner

Student

Recent Graduate

Academic

Intern & Resident

For the practicing veterinarian

Every day as a veterinarian presents a challenge, whether you’re treating a complex condition, anesthetizing a geriatric pug, or the only veterinarian within 50 miles. Support from your colleagues and a vast, searchable database of the latest veterinary information will help you experience the joy and fulfillment of practicing great medicine.

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VIN has been the single most useful resource in my career. There is always someone who has dealt with a similar case. - Dr. Kristie Ponce

Learn from the community, before you even graduate

A busy class schedule, unfamiliar topics, exams, labs, surgery, clinics, late night studying… veterinary school is a lot. With VIN by your side, you’ll study with powerful learning tools, get guidance from colleagues to help you stay on track, and gain a direct view of life as a veterinarian. Understanding why what you’re learning is clinically relevant fuels your purpose and paves the way to a gratifying career. VIN membership is free for veterinary students worldwide.

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Hi! I love VIN and I am using it all the time as a veterinary student!!! This is a great tool for every single aspect of veterinary medicine! Best regards, keep working on this amazing website! - Capucine Loire

Navigate your first years with confidence

Transitioning from life as a student to being a veterinarian can be both exhilarating and daunting. You’re finally putting years of study into practice, but there’s still so much to learn.

Quick access to structured veterinary resources and the collective experience of tens of thousands of colleagues will help you save the day when Fluffy and her frantic owner bring their emergency to your practice.

Recent graduate membership →

VIN's new AI Mode is a life-saver. In addition to a whole list of possible answers, I now get a quick to read summary answer with references to trusted VIN resources. It's like talking to my favourite University Professor about my patients! - Chiara Matrone

Prepare your students for the real world

Preparing the profession's future is a big responsibility. Integrate VIN resources into your curriculum by assigning Message Board discussions, sharing learning tools like 3D Anatomy, and connecting your students to the global VIN community, and watch them thrive.

Academic membership →

Thank you so much for your ongoing support of faculty, house-officers, and students! I encourage students to use VIN to review cool eye cases and quizzes through the website, as well as to attend informative sessions about student debt. The VIN drug handbooks and calculators are great tools! - Dr. Georgina Marie

Build your knowledge and network

Between lecturing, rounds, procedures, research, and on-call shifts, it’s easy to feel stretched thin while building your career.

A global community of colleagues and cross-disciplinary discussions will keep you in touch with what your students, referring veterinarians, and lecture attendees need and help you flourish in the profession.

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VIN helped tremendously during my rotating internship and I cannot be more thankful for the VIN team. - Dr. Angello Gutierrez

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Whether you're working up a case, researching a drug, or learning about the latest treatment options, VIN provides the resources you need to make confident decisions, wherever you're practicing.

Search

Drug Resources

VINcyclopedia

Community

Clinical Support

CE/CPD & Rounds

Get the answers you need with VIN Search

Use VIN Search as your go-to information-seeking tool which mines the entire VIN database of knowledge, including real-world cases with expert responses from specialists, journal articles, conference proceedings, and abstracts, full textbooks, and the VIN Veterinary Drug Handbook (VVDH). VIN Search brings you the information you need in seconds.

Supercharge your Search with AI Mode!

VIN has everything you need in one place — and now AI Mode makes it even easier to find and digest. VIN AI Mode is the only AI with access to the exclusive VIN database, leveraging it and all the human work done to curate, tag, and index that content to quickly give you cited, summarized Search results you can trust.

Drug Formulary + Mobile App

Get the drug resources you need with the VVDH.

Prescribe confidently with the VIN Veterinary Drug Handbook (VVDH), a fully referenced drug formulary with drug profiles, a built-in calculator, personal Notes, client information sheets, clinical insights, and more. The mobile app makes this resource even more convenient!

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Clinical Reference

Get the clinical insights you need with VINcyclopedia.

Master the art of differential diagnosis with VINcyclopedia, an expansive, referenced, and continually updated online disease and diagnostic textbook. This beloved VIN resource offers concise disease, diagnostic, and treatment information on nearly a thousand dog and cat diseases, as well as a growing number of exotic animal diseases.

VINcyclopedia Online Disease and Diagnostic Textbook

Community

Get the community you need on the VIN Message Boards.

Feel supported and enriched as you interact with colleagues in lively Message Board discussions. Exchange insights on each other’s cases, lend or find a supportive ear, share experiences, and discuss a wide variety of topics with your vibrant VIN Community.

280+ Specialists

Get the clinical, practice management, and career support you need.

Seek expert guidance on your difficult cases from over 280 VIN Consultants and Associate Editors, who are specialists in their field. They strengthen the VIN Community by working with all VIN colleagues on the Message Boards to help you better manage your cases, and most importantly to help all VINners learn from each other.

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4–5 new sessions weekly · Free CE

Get the education you need with CE/CPD and Rounds.

Expand your knowledge with sponsorship-free Rounds and VIN CE courses. Enjoy VIN member discounts on interactive and self-study VIN CE courses. Explore new Rounds every week. with many offering free CE credit for attending the live session. Rounds recordings, transcripts, and VINcasts are available 24/7.

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"Thank you for creating the number one tool for better care in veterinary medicine!"

- Heide Meier, DVM

There's so much more inside VIN

Search, VIN Consultants, and the Message Boards are where most VINners begin — but the full toolkit runs deep. Here's a glimpse.

Clinical Reference

Calculators & Conversions
Drug Handbook (VVDH)
Exotic Animal Formulary
Drug Label Database
Merck Veterinary Manual
Medical FAQs
Abbreviations
Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Learning & CE

CE/CPD Courses
Conference Proceedings
VIN U
BestBETs for Vets
NAVLE® Prep Resources
Flashcards
Multiple Choice Questions
Virtual Veterinary Internship
Virtual Clinic
Companion Notes

Multimedia & Visual

Anatomy in 3D
Procedure Videos (Mentor)
Procedure Videos (ExeroVet)
Radiology Atlas
Image Library
VINcasts (Podcasts)
Fun & Challenging Cases

Practice Resources

Client Education & Handouts
Client Drug Information Sheets
Recall Center
Legal Specialty Center
Classified Ads (VetQuest)
Clinical Trials & Research
Anesthesia Protocols
Specialty Centers

Community & Wellbeing

VINners Supporting VINners
Vets4Vets
Paul's Posts
Surveys
VIN Foundation
Student Debt Center
Proud to be a VINner

News & Publications

VIN News Service
Journals & Publications
Books
VetzInsight
VIN This Week

Over 35 years of VIN Community and still growing

In 1990, Drs. Duncan Ferguson and Paul Pion began answering pet care questions on a small online Bulletin Board Service that would later become America Online.

Soon, it wasn't just curious pet owners posting — veterinarians were chiming in too. For the first time, colleagues could collaborate across distances in real time, and the result was revolutionary. The VIN Community had begun.

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