Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Blue Buffalo webinar, The White Coat Investor, Dr. Jim Dahle, reviews financial tips and pearls for veterinary professionals. Tune in for some financial tips that will help veterinary professionals be successful in their careers. Increasing the financial security of veterinary professionals helps them to be better partners, parents, and doctors along with reducing burnout, decreasing suicide risk, and improving patient care.

Think Anesthesia Presents: The presentation compares these two common induction and maintenance agents in healthy patient populations within on-label applications and explores more diverse patient populations or patients with co-morbidities that may require anesthesia. Upon completion participants should have sufficient literature-based evidence to best select the appropriate induction agent for their patient and clinical situation.

VDOS Presents: This webinar will introduce you to the world of small animal dentistry and oral surgery. It will explain what equipment, instruments, materials, knowledge and practical skills are needed to become profitable in the most lucrative discipline of veterinary medicine.

VDOS Presents (fee applies): This webinar will review the most common dental and oral pathologies in dogs and cats, including periodontal disease, gingival enlargement, oral ulcers, stomatitis, eosinophilic granuloma, pyogenic granuloma, tooth wear, tooth fracture, endodontic and periapical disease, tooth resorption, jaw fracture, temporomandibular joint disorders, palate defects, oral soft tissue trauma, and oral tumors. The focus is on recognizing potential causes and diagnostic features of these conditions. The didactic lecture will last 1.5 hours, but the webinar is designed so that there is extra time for interactive participation and answering your questions.

VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary VETgirl–Zoetis webinar, Dr. Annette Litster will present a review of the peer-reviewed literature on vaccination in cats to inform vaccine protocols using an evidence-based approach. Information on the immune response, adverse reactions to vaccines, injection site sarcomas, duration of immunity, route of administration, maternally-derived immunity and updates from the 2020 AAHA/AAFP Feline Vaccination Guidelines will be discussed.

Massachusetts Animal Coalition Presents: Please join us for a presentation about a method for assessing need for spay and neuter resources using GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

Fear Free Presents: Veterinary medicine in 2021 continues to provide challenges—ongoing curbside service, COVID-19, and client concerns and frustrations. Join Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ, as she discusses some very practical tips and tricks to helping clients understand what we do and why we do it and that we all have the same goal—healthy and happy pets.

ACVB Presents: Join us in this webinar where we will walk through the decision tree to diagnosing behavioral causes for feline house soiling, differentiating between marking behavior and unwanted toileting behavior (previously referred to as “inappropriate elimination”), and discuss prevention and treatment recommendations.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): In this webinar, you’ll learn the skills that will get you through the rough spots without the blow up, and master the fine art of the magnet walk and while you develop strategy that can help get you back out and about! Let’s get your dog walking with you again!

Getting 2 Zero Presents: This session is an introduction to how to ensure your strategic plan is aspirational enough AND deliverable. On how to create a vision that inspires, how to ensure your organisation is moving forward, how to engage your people in the plan. And the step we usually miss: how to implement it in a way that ensures it’s not just a document that sits on a shelf until the next planning session in three years.

VETGirl Presents: Join us for a complimentary 1-hour, online VETgirl–Merck Animal Health CE webinar, where Steve Callister, PhD reviews Lyme disease and the historical perspective on development of vaccines. Tune in for a brief discussion of human and canine Lyme disease, historical perspective of efforts/strategies to develop vaccines to prevent Lyme disease, mistakes and successes, and the current ‘state of the art’ of vaccinating canines against the illness.