VIN Class October 10, 1995

Examples of Veterinary resources available via the Web

For the class tonight, I have rounded up several recently produced web pages that are related to veterinary medicine in some way. You can see that several areas of the profession are represented, including academic institutions, government agencies, newsletters, corporate presence, computer software, state associations, etc.

....and this is just scratching the surface, folks! At the bottom of the list, you can venture out into the rest of cyberspace via the NetVet server or major Internet Search Engines like the WebCrawler or Yahoo.

Have fun .....and don't get lost!...home base for this class is http://netvet.wustl.edu/vinclass.htm.

• The United States Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine regulates the manufacture and distribution of food additives and drugs given to animals and has put together a very useful new website that is worth your visit. It contains information on CVM activities and policies, Freedom of Information summaries for veterinary drugs, veterinary drug manufacturing and approval guidelines and contact information.
  
• Lowell Ackerman, DVM, has put together a new web page, called the Pet Corner, a compilation of pet-related material dealing with health care, breed information, consulting services, Project TEACH, questions and answers, organizations, and veterinary medicine.
  
• The monthly publication, Lab Animal, has a new website with a nice searchable index of articles and monthly columns.
  
• The BestVet site describes their veterinary practice management software.
  
• VCA Clinipath Labs, Inc. provides a comprehensive array of diagnostic services for practicing veterinarians, biological research organizations, medically supervised breeding operations, veterinary schools, and zoos.
  
• View the latest issue of the American Veterinary Computer Society Newsletter 1995 - No. 4.
  
• Visit the new website for FBR, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, which educates the public concerning the need for increased support for biomedical research. It is complemented by the work of its sister organization, NABR, the National Association for Biomedical Research, which deals with biomedical policy issues.
  
• The Kansas Veterinary Medical Association has started a new home page.
  
• The Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University has a new website with pointers to laboratory animal references.
  
• Publisher of Veterinary Books and Journals, Mosby-Year Book, Inc. is now accessible via the web.
  
• Steven Melman, VMD, specializes in veterinary dermatology and has the DermaPetPage up on the Web.
  
• The new web site for the American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists describes this veterinary specialty and provides information on meetings, membership, examinations, guidelines for monitoring anesthetized veterinary patients and the 20th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA (October 20, 1995).
  
• Get information on the next North American Veterinary Conference, to be held on January 13-17, 1996.
  
• News from Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine on a new book, Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History, that should be in every veterinarian's library. One of the best books I've ever seen...period. While you're at the Purdue SVM, visit the award-winning (Cool Medical Site of the Week), Medical Illustration & Communications Department.
  
• The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Department of Veterinary Pathology is constructing a new webserver and includes a home page for the Charles Louis Davis Foundation for the Advancement of Veterinary Pathology.
  
• The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) has established a new webserver.
  
• Hoofprints is a large animal newsletter published by the Production Medicine Management section of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.
  
• The Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center has reorganized their server. Visit the premier primatology resource, the Primate Info Net
  

Internet Search Engines

• Yahoo
  
• WebCrawler
  
• Lycos Web Index
  
• Magellan
  

• The WWW - Virtual Library Veterinary Medicine Page is the main resource where you will find these example veterinary servers on the Web.

• Also see the NetVet Veterinary Resources WWW server at Washington University has additional listings of veterinary and animal-related computer sites organized by subject matter, including the Electronic Zoo.

Bonus for getting to the bottom of the list:

David Letterman's Top Ten Signs You've Gone to a Bad Veterinarian. :-)

Ken Boschert, DVM
Washington University
Division of Comparative Medicine
Box 8061, 660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
E-Mail: ken@wudcm.wustl.edu