Register for the NYSVMS Webinar: Meet the OPD director How complaints against veterinarians are resolved on February 20th
NYSVMS
Register for the NYSVMS webinar: Meet the OPD director How complaints against veterinarians are resolved on February 20th from 7-8PM. Even the best vets make mistakes, so a complaint is a necessary part of serving the public. But how worried should you be? If you understand how those complaints will be evaluated, you can be better prepared to show that you used good professional judgment, even if something did go wrong on your watch. That’s why we have invited as our webinar speaker the Director of the Office of Professional Discipline, Dennis Spillane. He will help you understand the overall complaints process, and what you can do today to make sure that you get the best result possible. This will help you avoid unnecessary penalties and maybe help you worry a little less when clients threaten you with a complaint.
Mouse model may help explain, treat infertility
Cornell University CVM
Cornell researchers have created a genetically engineered mouse model that could shed light on the causes of human infertility and allow researchers to explore other areas of reproduction. The work, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and to be showcased in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, relied on a transgenic mouse model developed by researchers in the Baker Institute for Animal Health, part of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Register for Cornell University CVM Veterinary Dentistry Diagnostics 3 course bundle with NYSVMS member discount
Cornell University CVM
Cornell University CVM is offering Dentistry Practical Skills: Veterinary Dentistry Diagnostics 3-course bundle. Dentistry is one of the fastest-growing clinical disciplines in veterinary medicine. This dentistry diagnostic program includes three distinct courses that will help you deepen your knowledge of this topic and offers practical skills that you can easily apply in a clinical setting. Using real clinical cases that combine practical and conceptual knowledge, participants will learn techniques from some of the world leaders in veterinary dentistry. They will guide you through the training you need to provide the gold standard of dental care to your patients. This program is suitable for both independent learning or for incorporating into the flow of your daily veterinary practice. The entire program is 9.5 hours, online and self-paced. There is a discount code for all NYSVMS members to receive 20% off of the Veterinary Dentistry Practical Skills Series. Use the Discount Code: NYSVMS20 at checkout in the coupon code box.
AVMA’s free mentorship program expands
AVMA
The AVMA’s popular mentorship pairing program is now welcoming all AVMA members with less than 10 years of professional experience to receive free mentoring. Less than a year after it welcomed its first mentees from the class of 2023, MentorVet Connect has been expanded for the second time. Now, any AVMA member can receive free mentoring anytime within their first 10 years after graduating from veterinary school. Interested in signing up to receive mentoring? Get started here.
Veterinary profession heading in right direction with mental health
AVMA
The veterinary profession has come a long way in the nearly seven years since the first major study came out on veterinary mental health, wellbeing, and burnout. The stigma around mental health issues has lessened, more people who need it are seeking help, and more resources are available to create psychologically safe workplaces.
AVMA updates include new technology entity, PVME open for comment
AVMA
The AVMA rang in the new year with a record high 105,000 members, strong financials, and a slate of initiatives for the year ahead that address emerging technologies, antimicrobial stewardship, and the AVMA Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics and Model Veterinary Practice Act. AVMA Executive Vice President and CEO Dr. Janet Donlin announced the AVMA membership numbers during the plenary session of the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) regular winter session, held January 5-6 in conjunction with the AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference in Chicago.
Stay, please: How do we keep good people in clinical practice?
AAHA
“I knew I wanted to be a veterinarian at 10 years old and now, 50 years later, I still enjoy it and find it fulfilling.” That’s the dream, right? Veterinary medicine is a career stemming from passion, and it’s one that requires hard work and dedication to make a reality. After all that, you’d hope the comment above would be the norm. That makes it even more heartbreaking to learn that, according to the 2023 AAHA Path to Better Retention in Veterinary Medicine Survey (see sidebar: About Our Study), about 30% of veterinary professionals currently in clinical practice plan to leave their jobs. If you’re tuned in at all to the vet med community, this potential attrition rate probably doesn’t surprise you. Staffing shortages abound.
A snake’s teeth predict how fast it will strike
Science
The open, fanged mouth of a snake poised to strike is terrifying to most people. But William Ryerson is not like most people. Over the past few years, this herpetologist at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has peered into those mouths, analyzing the teeth’s shape, position, and size, and filmed them in action. This week at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, he reported that these factors can be used to predict the speed and direction of a snake’s strike.
The diagnostic approach to oral masses
DVM360
“Good oral exams can save lives,” said Naomi Hoyer, DVM, DAVDC, assistant professor of dentistry and oral surgery at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Fort Collins. Lifting the lip during every physical examination can help veterinarians to identify oral masses when they are small.1 “We can fix oral cancer a lot of the time when it’s found early,” Hoyer stated during a session at the 2024 Veterinary Meeting & Expo in Orlando, Florida. “A lot of the early work up of oral neoplasia is doable in [general] practice,” she continued, providing general practitioners a road map for approaching oral masses in dogs and cats.
Vets consider safety, efficacy of repeat corticosteroid joint injections in horses
The Horse
Veterinarians commonly perform intra-articular injections (IA, or joint injections) in horses to manage the heat, pain/lameness, and swelling associated with osteoarthritis (OA). Despite the extensive and long-standing use of IA corticosteroids for OA treatment, remarkably little research supports this application. The scarce data that have been published show no consistent clinical improvements in horses treated using this method and noted some potentially negative effects on disease progression.
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