Continuing Education

13 March

WSVMA DVM: Masterclass Webinar on Diagnostic Testing

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Join us Tuesday, Mar. 17 at 12pm for our webinar Diagnostic Testing: A Potpourri of Useful Information. Dr. Sandy Willis will be our guest speaker. This quick paced webinar will cover most everything you need to know about optimizing diagnostic sampling for routine blood work (including extra detail on CBC and Urine sediment reviews), cytology, pathology and microbiology done through your reference veterinary laboratory. We will sprinkle in some medicine to demonstrate unique aspects of diagnosing hematologic and urinary tract...

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07 February

WSVMA DVM: Masterclass Webinar on Marketing: Google Has Split Into Four Types of Searches

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Join us Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 12pm for our webinar Google Has Split Into Four Types of Searches. Kelly Baltzell from Beyond Indigo Pets will be our guest speaker. “Google used to be simple,” says Kelly. “All a company had to worry about was being at the top of the Google search engine.” Google has now divided the type of searches it offers into four different categories; original organic search, local search, AdWords and mobile search. Plus, to be seen...

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24 January

Partnering for Dairy Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Conference for Farmers and Veterinarians in the West

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Newer and proposed guidance and regulations from the US Food and Drug Association (FDA) have focused attention on the role of the veterinarian to provide complete oversight of antimicrobial use in food animal production. The Veterinary Feed Directive addressed in-feed antimicrobials and severely restricted uses of these products. In September of 2019, the FDA announced proposed guidance on the use of over-the-counter drugs (OTC), eventually eliminating their use and requiring veterinary prescriptions for any antimicrobial. The state of California passed...

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17 January

WSVMA VetMed Matters Conference to focus on economics

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Veterinary medicine has always been an exciting field and today, it is one that is realizing unprecedented levels of growth. From enhancements in medical technology and services to the corporatization of practices with mergers and acquisitions abounding, to partnerships with on-line pharmacies and the growing role of on-demand telemedicine, our profession is experiencing change, seemingly at the speed of light. The good news is that companion animal owners are increasingly seeking our services and taking steps to improve the quality...

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13 December

WSVMA’s DVM Masterclass monthly e-learning 2020 schedule and on-demand library

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Our second annual DVM Masterclass webinar series launches next month. Twelve more monthly webinars will be presented free to members and subsequently added to our growing on-demand library. Don’t miss out on medical, practice management and professional development education you can use to fulfill your annual CE hours. All webinars will start at 12pm and run for one hour. Attending webinars live, in real time, satisfies your regular CE requirements. In order to qualify for CE credit of preprogrammed materials, recorded...

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06 December

Start signing up for HEAL-WA online medical resource database

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Legislation to add veterinarians and veterinary technicians to the health professions served by HEAL-WA passed the Washington State House and Senate and became law on July 28, 2019. HEAL-WA is an online portal to evidence-based resources. It is run by the University of Washington Health Sciences Library through a contract with the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and funded by a $16.00 surcharge on the license fees from participating professions. They are now ready to start registering veterinarians and...

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06 December

Upcoming CE Series: Defining and Developing Your Dream Team

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

The Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA) and Veterinary Medical Association Executives (VMAE) are pleased to announce the launch of a new three-part webinar series. The first presentation, It’s All About the Job, dives into the different aspects of individual jobs within the veterinary practice, focusing on five areas – job analysis, description, reviews, enlargement, and enrichment. Webinar #2 - Courageous Conversations - April 22, 2020 Webinar #3 - Put Me in Coach! Developing Your Leadership Team – June 10, 2020 The webinars are available free of charge...

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06 December

WSVMA DVM: Masterclass Webinar – Pathway to Ownership – Financing Your Future

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Join us Tuesday, December 10 at 12pm for our webinar Pathway to Ownership – Financing Your Future. Joseph Coury will be our guest speaker. Joseph will present what ownership can mean in terms of financial independence and how ownership will help with retiring student debt. He will review the best financial and professional practices to position yourself for veterinary lending as well as talk about what to do and what not to do as you ready yourself for practice ownership....

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22 November

WSVMA DVM: Masterclass Webinar – Pathway to Ownership – Financing Your Future

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

Join us Tuesday, December 10 at 12 pm for our webinar Pathway to Ownership – Financing Your Future. Joseph Coury will be our guest speaker. Joseph will present what ownership can mean in terms of financial independence and how ownership will help with retiring student debt. He will review the best financial and professional practices to position yourself for veterinary lending as well as talk about what to do and what not to do as you ready yourself for practice...

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08 November

What am I Eating?

wsvma   |   Continuing Education

That’s a great question – and one that can be answered for your patients and clients by attending the upcoming WSVMA premier CE program that features well-known veterinary nutritionist Craig Datz, DVM, MS, DACVN. Dr. Datz, current Director of Scientific Affairs for Royal Canin, will answer your burning nutrition and health-related questions. Featured topics include: Nutrition-Associated DCM: What do we know? Unconventional Diets: A Raw Deal? FAQs in Feline Nutrition: Cats & Carbohydrates, Protein Restriction in CKD, and more Managing...

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