IVMA
Communiqué
"Serving veterinarians for the benefit of animal and human health"
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January 19
IVMA Executive Board Meeting, Ames
February 8-9
IVMA Winter Conference, Altoona
February 22
Legislative Day, Des Moines
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IVMA Continuing Education Portal Coming Soon!
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  Just in time to help you complete your 2017 Continuing Education requirements, the IVMA is teaming up with the World Veterinary Association and the World Continuing Education Alliance to offer online CE courses to its members.
The IVMA Continuing Education Portal is part of a global education network with over 1,000 continuing education courses from over 80 CE educators, with new education content added every week. IVMA members will be able to study online from a wide range of CE short courses according to their needs. A large number of courses are available for free, with others available at a cost. Most courses are RACE approved and members can see if they have been approved before taking the course.
The IVMA Continuing Education Portal will be available in early 2017 to all members on the IVMA website.
Members will receive a registration email allowing a quick and easy sign up to our great new educational resource.
Look for more information about the IVMA Educational Portal in future editions of the IVMA Update and Communiqué.
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Friday, December 23 Office Closes at Noon
Monday, December 26 Office Closed
Monday, January 2 Office Closed
PC orders received by 11:00 am on December 23 will be shipped for Tuesday, December 27 delivery.
Orders received by 11:00 am on December 30 will be shipped for Tuesday, January, 3rd delivery.
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IVMA Tailgate at ISU Game Held
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Drs. Mitch Hiscocks, Preston Ayers and Randy Ackman enjoying some tailgate fun.
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Approximately 50 veterinarians and 30 guests enjoyed a brisk day in the parking lot of Cyclone Stadium on Saturday, November 19 to tailgate before the Iowa State vs. Texas Tech football game.
IVMA President Dr. Mitch Hiscocks would like to thank MWI, Elanco and Zoetis for helping to sponsor the tailgate.
Not only was the group able to enjoy the tailgate, they also were able to cheer on the Cyclones to a 66-10 win over Texas Tech!
Go Cyclones!
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ISU Requesting Funding for new Veterinary Diagnostic Lab
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Iowa State University President Dr. Steven Leath is asking the governor and legislators to spend $100 million dollars in state taxes over the next five years on a new building for the Ames campus.
Leath said the current ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory needs to be replaced. He's promising to raise another $20 million from private sources for the project.
"It's somewhat akin to the medical buildings at the University of Iowa, hence the high expense, but we're processing more than a million and a half tests a year to support our $17 billion annual animal ag industry," Leath said. "Without this new building, a number of our tests, biocontainment, biosafety are all in jeopardy."
About 30 people worked in the current Veterinary Diagnostic Lab when it opened in 1976. There are now about 150 people working there.
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2016 Report on the Market for Veterinarians Available
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 The AVMA recently released the 2016 Report on the Market for Veterinarians, making it available for free download by all AVMA members as part of the AVMA's 2016 Economic Reports series. Subjects addressed in the report include veterinary employment, income and veterinary well-being as it relates to debt load, job and career satisfaction, income, expenditure patterns, burnout scores and a veterinarian's physical health.
AVMA members are encouraged to download and read their free copy of this report, as well as the first two reports in the 2016 series: the 2016 AVMA Report on Veterinary Markets and the 2016 AVMA Report on the Market for Veterinary Education.
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New Animal Poison Control App
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 A new free mobile app for both Android and iOS can help your clients find potentially life-saving information about harmful substances that animals may ingest. The app from the American Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Animal Poison Control Center contains a searchable list of household and other poisons for dogs, cats, horses and birds.
Some of the toxins like theobromine and warfarin have built-in calculators which take the animal's weight and amount of toxin ingested and give the user an indication of the severity of the intoxication.
The app also includes a call button which enables the user to directly get in touch with the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center. The app also encourages the user to seek veterinary advice in almost every poison's description.
Although the target audience of the app is pet owners, it can be used as a reference for the veterinary profession.
For more information visit www.aspca.org.
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Become the Link between the IVMA and Recent Graduates
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 One of IVMA's current Emerging Leader Liaisons to the Administrative Committee (ELL) will be resigning from the ELL position. Applications are now being taken for a replacement.
This position provides a link and builds relationships between recent veterinarian school graduates and the IVMA. This position is open to any IVMA member who has graduated from veterinary school within the last 7 years.
Through May of 2017, this ELL position
will serve as the "Incoming ELL" along with current ELL. This summer, this person will take on the leadership role as the "Senior ELL" and a new "Incoming ELL" will be selected.
The Emerging Leader Liaison will attend selected meetings, conferences and events throughout the year. As compensation, the ELL will receive a one year IVMA membership; all travel expenses to attend meetings, and paid registration to IVMA conferences.
For a full list of job responsibilities or to apply for this opportunity, complete the ELL Application Form, found at
www.iowavma.org, and
return it to the IVMA Office by December 31, 2016. Selection will take place by January 10, 2017.
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Not One More Vet: Facebook Group Helps Struggling Veterinarians
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A Facebook group that was initially started out of a need for a handful of veterinarians to discuss their struggles within the veterinary profession has grown to over 4500 members. The group, Not One More Veterinarian (NOMV) has two goals. The first goal to is to provide a safe place for veterinarians to openly discuss mental and emotional struggles, as well as talk about issues such as difficult clients, a poor outcome of a case, debt and balancing life and family. The second goal of the group is to raise awareness about the fact that suicide is a very real problem in the veterinary profession.
All members of the group must be veterinarians and group administrators verify this before being admitted to the group.
One offshoot of the group is a phone list has started within the group called the "NOMV Bad Day Phone List". Although no one on this list is a trained mental health care provider, it provides names and numbers of members willing to take a call from a fellow veterinarian who might be having a bad day and need someone to talk to.
If you are interested in finding out more about this Not One More Veterinarian read
this article from DVM360. To request to join the NOMV Facebook group, send a Facebook message to Nicole Blackmer McArthur, Carrie Jurney or Jason Sweizer.
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