Today professionals in the medical field always have to follow on modern techniques and new methods. It may seem as though every day there is some sort of new way of doing something that makes anything you used to do obsolete. However, people get busy, schedules get packed and it makes staying “up-to-date” a burden. A simple solution, have someone else attend those boring seminars and sit through all those lectures and read about it later. That is something that Veterinary Medicine has been dedicated to; I’ll be the first to admit I hate sitting in cold lecture hall with a monotone professional standing in the front talking about something that someone else came up with. I mean in these modern days I want to hear from someone who has a tone and who truly cares about what they are talking about. That’s where Veterinary Medicine Magazine comes into play, they send a reporter to the seminars and the reporter takes notes, and will even go as far to ask other doctors their opinions, and sometimes they go straight to the source. The reporter takes all this information and types it up into one article, and there you go. You have this brand new information and the views of other professionals just like you with their opinions written in. This idea of simply reading a magazine has revolutionized medicine.
So you may be thinking to yourself at this point, “Great so there are journals out there I can read”; problem is which ones do you read? I'm not saying it may be easy to start a magazine, but how do you know you’re getting good information, from the right place. The answer is simpler than you may think, experience and location. Firstly, if a magazine is known for not producing accurate information then people won’t want to read it and eventually the magazine will die off or its reputation will be known. Secondly, where you find the magazine is a great indicator, obviously if you are seeing it at the checkout stand of your local grocery store it is most likely a tabloid and will be of no use. However, if you see it at you library in the reference area or publications it is going to be a more reliable source. I initially came across Veterinary Medicine at my university library, and I’ve been stuck on it ever since.
Veterinary Medicine magazine came upon us to not only keep veterinarians informed but to help future and prospective veterinarians learn. This magazine isn’t just about what you can do now but it is about what may come in the future, something very few people give thought. It has everything a person could use when looking into this as a prospective field and may give the squeamish a second thought. It can also help to give an edge over others looking into the field since everyone knows how competitive the veterinary medicine field can get. So though you may think it is only for veterinarians it may help those who aren’t quite yet there. Not to mention it can help those who not only are in the field or interested in the field, but those who enjoy the simple things in life such as raising livestock. Anyone who has ever taken their animal to the veterinarian knows, they don’t provide services for very cheap. Having some knowledge into what is going on with the field can help you make better decisions about calling up your local veterinarian, better to not waste anyone’s time here people.
Veterinary Medicine magazine came upon us to not only keep veterinarians informed but to help future and prospective veterinarians learn. This magazine isn’t just about what you can do now but it is about what may come in the future, something very few people give thought. It has everything a person could use when looking into this as a prospective field and may give the squeamish a second thought. It can also help to give an edge over others looking into the field since everyone knows how competitive the veterinary medicine field can get. So though you may think it is only for veterinarians it may help those who aren’t quite yet there. Not to mention it can help those who not only are in the field or interested in the field, but those who enjoy the simple things in life such as raising livestock. Anyone who has ever taken their animal to the veterinarian knows, they don’t provide services for very cheap. Having some knowledge into what is going on with the field can help you make better decisions about calling up your local veterinarian, better to not waste anyone’s time here people.
Now to the real meat of what this magazine has to offer, sure I can talk them up all day long, but does it really help you? Does it make you want to run to the library and pick up a copy? Probably not, so here is the real ringer people, what you have been waiting for; the stuff you can read in those pages. Well that’s easy enough; you can read anything from new animal care techniques to how to handle the families that come in and out of your office every day. You can find information on trending new diseases and treatments to helping Fluffy get through her checkup (http://catvets.com/). It is even available online, so if you don’t want to waste a lot of paper or if you perhaps do not like mail, you can subscribe online (http://www.dvm360.com/) and read it there too. Something you can only find online, videos to which they probably have as many as YouTube, well maybe not, but still quite a few; and just to keep your mind sharp they have quizzes to keep you on your toes. Not to mention the links to other sources similar to the magazine are all listed at the top for you to explore and enjoy. Everything you need to run your business and your career are all in on well written and convenient place.
One article I remember very well, talked about dogs in the sporting industry and how to prevent and treat sports injuries in canines. It was a useful article with information from the different injuries that can occur from foot pad to Achilles tendon injuries and the way that it is diagnosed and treated. This article had it all, written by Wendy Baltzer a common writer with a DVM, PhD, and Diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, and currently working at Oregon State University, she has written many articles on the different sports injuries in veterinary medicine and specializes in this field of study. Another article that I find as a fascinating topic is an article by Dr. Jennifer L. Garcia, a internal medicine consultant located in Houston Texas that often writes for Veterinary Medicine about new drugs on the market and how they are affecting animals and your practice,where she talks about antibiotics and their resistance and mutations; a short article that talks about the Mutant Prevention Concentration test also known as the MPC, used to test the liklihood of an antimicrobial organism being resistant to drugs. She attended one of those boring seminars where Dr. Joseph M. Blondeau outlined this method in his presentation “Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance.” She talks about what it is, how it works and what it means for all of us in the veterinary field; she also touches on ways to prevent resistant antimicrobial organisms in your clinic.
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