september 2023
18sep8:00 pm9:00 pmWhy We Feel Frustrated with Our Brains, And How Not ToVECCS x VIN Webinar
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By: Rose Nolen-Walston DVM, DACVIM Description: It’s incredibly hard being a veterinarian, and practicing clinical medicine is one of the highest pressure, high stakes environments out there. Even the most competent, confident
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By: Rose Nolen-Walston DVM, DACVIM
Description: It’s incredibly hard being a veterinarian, and practicing clinical medicine is one of the highest pressure, high stakes environments out there. Even the most competent, confident veterinarian has days where it feels like nothing is coming together for them. But it turns out that there are functional limitations to how much the brain can do: we’ll discuss cognitive load theory and the myth of multi-tasking, and why feel like our brains fail us sometimes. Then we’ll cover extrinsic and intrinsic cognitive load and go over evidence-based strategies to allow your brain to work at full capacity. Even with that, though, everyone has days where imposter syndrome sneaks up on us (and some of us wish we had even the occasional day where it didn’t!). We’ll delve into why imposter syndrome occurs and how to address it, with a quick tour of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And finally, we’ll discuss the second victim effect, which is the emotional trauma that healthcare providers experience when they make a medical error, and how these factors lead to burnout and compassion fatigue. These problems are endemic, and we’ll finish with how to recognize them, why they occur, and most importantly, how we can find strategies to protect ourselves from them.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Why it feels like our brains can’t keep up: how cognitive load theory affects your ability to process high-volume information in a high stress environment, and how to leverage the theory to become a more efficient, effective clinician and teacher.
- Why it feels like our brains can’t keep up: using “deliberate practice theory” as a roadmap to improving expertise, even after years in practice.
- Why it feels like we’re not smart enough: examining the interplay of the Dunning-Kruger effect (a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area) and imposter syndrome (an internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you are) is so prevalent in our field, and how we can grow past it.
- Why do we feel burned out: how burned out are you, is there a way to measure it? We’ll describe the consequences of burn-out, and what works and what doesn’t, to mitigate burnout and compassion fatigue in clinical medicine.
- Why we feel burned out: who is the “second victim” of medical error? It’s the practitioner who made the mistake. What responsibilities do we have to care for the second victims, and what does that look like?
Speaker Info: Rose Nolen-Walston grew up on a farm in England with plans to become a professional dressage rider but a complete lack of talent for the sport led her to veterinary medicine, where she eventually graduated from UGA in 2001 with her DVM. She went on to do an internship and residency in large animal internal medicine at Tufts before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 2006. In 2014 Dr Nolen-Walston won University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and is past president of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society. She is currently pursuing a non-traditional residency in clinical pathology at Tufts while continuing her Penn faculty appointment and is loving every second of learning more about the small animal side of medicine too!
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(Monday) 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
21sep9:00 am10:00 amNew Member Orientation - September 2023Welcome! We're so excited to have you!
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New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info: Discover all VECCS Member Benefits Confirm you are receiving our member
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New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info:
- Discover all VECCS Member Benefits
- Confirm you are receiving our member communications
- Learn how to access the monthly CE webinars we offer
- Find us on social media
- Learn about all upcoming events
- Hear from a VECCS Ambassador
- Q&A
- Have a chance to win a pair of VECCS Scrubs!
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Central
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october 2023
11oct11:00 am12:00 pmMonthly Mingle - October 2023VECCS Monthly Mingle
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members! Topic: TBD Moderator: TBD
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members!
Topic: TBD
Moderator: TBD
Time
(Wednesday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Central
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By: Christine Culler, DVM, MS, DACVECC Description: Blood product shortages are increasingly common and many hospitals may not regularly keep blood products on hand. Having an established contingency plan for patients
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By: Christine Culler, DVM, MS, DACVECC
Description: Blood product shortages are increasingly common and many hospitals may not regularly keep blood products on hand. Having an established contingency plan for patients requiring blood products is important. It is stressful to find alternative solutions in a crisis and the delay can compromise patient outcomes. We will review various blood products and their uses, including dosages, rates, proper administration, and how to navigate transfusion reactions. We will discuss a variety of alternatives to reach for when your blood refrigerator is empty, including the pros and cons of each. This will include xenotransfusion for cats when type-specific products aren’t available, how to appropriately collect and store blood from a donor animal, stabilizing the anemic patient while waiting for a transfusion, and suggestions on navigating blood product purchasing in urgent situations. A goal for this course is to leave more confident in transfusion medicine and to have an organized plan for handling blood shortages.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- To understand potential indications and risks of xenotransfusion in cats.
- To be familiar with a protocol for in-house blood collection
- To know the content of various blood products and alternatives when the ideal product is not available
Speaker Info: Christine Culler, DVM, MS, DACVECC is a traveling emergency doctor with Veterinary Emergency Group. She completed her DVM, Master of Science, and residency in Emergency and Critical Care at The Ohio State University. She then completed a fellowship in extracorporeal therapy at North Carolina State University. She was a medical director at BluePearl North Carolina and joined VEG in 2023. The challenge of end of life and quality of life decision-making in her critical patients fueled her interest in palliative care and improving communication in serious illness. She also enjoys managing trauma, sepsis, acute kidney injury, and intoxications and appreciates working in hospitals that encourage teachers and learners to be humble and curious.
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Time
(Monday) 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
19oct9:00 am10:00 amNew Member Orientation - October 2023Welcome! We're so excited to have you!
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info: Discover all VECCS Member Benefits Confirm you are receiving our member
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info:
- Discover all VECCS Member Benefits
- Confirm you are receiving our member communications
- Learn how to access the monthly CE webinars we offer
- Find us on social media
- Learn about all upcoming events
- Hear from a VECCS Ambassador
- Q&A
- Have a chance to win a pair of VECCS Scrubs!
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Central
Organizer
november 2023
08nov11:00 am12:00 pmMonthly Mingle - November 2023VECCS Monthly Mingle
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members! Topic: TBD Moderator: Robin Brogdon
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members!
Topic: TBD
Moderator: Robin Brogdon
Time
(Wednesday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Central
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16nov9:00 am10:00 amNew Member Orientation - November 2023Welcome! We're so excited to have you!
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info: Discover all VECCS Member Benefits Confirm you are receiving our member
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info:
- Discover all VECCS Member Benefits
- Confirm you are receiving our member communications
- Learn how to access the monthly CE webinars we offer
- Find us on social media
- Learn about all upcoming events
- Hear from a VECCS Ambassador
- Q&A
- Have a chance to win a pair of VECCS Scrubs!
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Central
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By: Daniel J. Fletcher, PhD, DVM, DACVECC Description: Delivery of quality healthcare requires highly skilled teams that can remain effective in the complex, unpredictable environment that is the modern veterinary practice. Drawing
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By: Daniel J. Fletcher, PhD, DVM, DACVECC
Description: Delivery of quality healthcare requires highly skilled teams that can remain effective in the complex, unpredictable environment that is the modern veterinary practice. Drawing on the evidence based TeamSTEPPS system developed for human health care, this session will describe the VetTEAMS framework, a series of team competencies and simple communication tools that can be integrated into your practice to reduce medical errors, and improve team performance, and enhance staff satisfaction. Delivery of high-quality veterinary care requires extraordinary team work. Learn how you can help your team reach the next level of efficiency, quality, and safety.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Explain the principles of good leadership of a veterinary healthcare team.
- Describe the 4 fundamental characteristics of good communication in a veterinary healthcare setting.
- Demonstrate techniques and tools for achieving situation awareness through situation monitoring skills.
- Describe the principles of mutual support and the behaviors that can maximize a team’s ability to ask for and offer help to allocate resources where they are needed.
Speaker Info: Dr. Fletcher has been faculty at Cornell since 2006. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, he obtained his DVM from the University of California at Davis. He then completed an internship and emergency and critical care residency at Penn. He is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, which published the first evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines, and is past-president of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.
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(Monday) 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
december 2023
13dec11:00 am12:00 pmMonthly Mingle - December 2023VECCS Monthly Mingle
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members! Topic: TBD Moderator: TBD
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Join us in a safe space where you can talk, share, brainstorm and commiserate over various clinical topics with fellow VECCS members!
Topic: TBD
Moderator: TBD
Time
(Wednesday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Central
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21dec9:00 am10:00 amNew Member Orientation - December 2023Welcome! We're so excited to have you!
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info: Discover all VECCS Member Benefits Confirm you are receiving our member
Event Details
New members and long-time members alike, join us via Zoom, for this informative and fun orientation covering the following VECCS info:
- Discover all VECCS Member Benefits
- Confirm you are receiving our member communications
- Learn how to access the monthly CE webinars we offer
- Find us on social media
- Learn about all upcoming events
- Hear from a VECCS Ambassador
- Q&A
- Have a chance to win a pair of VECCS Scrubs!
Time
(Thursday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Central
Organizer
january 2024
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By: Angela M Lennox, DVM, DABVP-Avian, ECM; DECZM-Small Mammal Description: Rabbits commonly present with signs consistent with GI dysfunction; distinguishing these from actual obstruction, which may require surgical management, requires a
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By: Angela M Lennox, DVM, DABVP-Avian, ECM; DECZM-Small Mammal
Description: Rabbits commonly present with signs consistent with GI dysfunction; distinguishing these from actual obstruction, which may require surgical management, requires a thorough approach. This presentation helps practitioners identify this group of rabbits, and presents current thoughts on medical management of those not requiring surgery.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Understanding of the typical presentation of rabbits with GI dysfunction
- Tools for helping to distinguish which are more likely to have GI obstructive disease
- Protocols for both medical and surgical management
Speaker Info: Angela M. Lennox is a graduate of Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, and has practiced exclusively exotic animal medicine since 1991. She is the owner of the Avian and Exotic Animal Clinic of Indianapolis. She is a diplomate in the American Board of Veterinary Practitioner (ABVP) in both Avian and Exotic Companion Mammal Medicine, and a diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine, Small Mammal Medicine. Dr. Lennox is an adjunct professor at Purdue University Department of Clinical Sciences.
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(Monday) 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
september 2024
september 2025