Large Animal Veterinarians

TVMA requests more information from you regarding your area of practice.  Please send an email to green.delo@gmail.com indicating the area that best describes your practice:  Food Animal, Equine, Equine/Small Animal, Large Animal, Mixed Practice. 

Application Period Open for the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program

The Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP) will pay up to $25,000 each year towards qualified educational loans of eligible veterinarians who agree to serve in a NIFA designated veterinarian shortage situation for a period of three years.  In Tennessee, there are four positions for food animal veterinarians in underserved areas.  The application period closes July 8, 2011.  For more information click here. Contact Sara Clariday at 615-837-5120 if you have questions.

Target Sells Pet-Specific Medications in Pilot Program
Read the article that quotes TVMA member Dr. Randy Hammon.  

If you are a veterinarian and play either the bass guitar, lead guitar, or keyboard, we want to hear from you.  TVMA is putting together a band made up of veterinarians to perform during the 2012 MCVC.  We have a drummer and singers already lined up.  Contact Deloris at the TVMA office, green.delo@gmail.com or 931-438-0070, if you are interested in being involved.  It's going to be fun!

H.R. 1406, the Fairness to Pet Owners Act of 2011, would allow Congress to mandate how you run your practice by requiring all veterinarians to write a prescription at the time of prescribing, regardless of whether or not you would also be dispensing the product to your client

   You would also be required to provide a written disclosure that the pet owner may fill the prescription through you, the prescriber or another pharmacy.

This legislation is unnecessary and redundant.  AVMA policy already encourages veterinarians to write a prescription in lieu of dispensing when asked by a client.  And pet owners already have the ability to take a prescription to be filled at the pharmacy of their choice.

This bill is an unnecessary regulatory burden imposed on veterinary practices.

"Take Charge of Your Career" is narrated by Marshall Brown and empowers candidates to drive their own career progression within the new world of work today.  Each podcast is approximately 2 - 6 minutes in length and provides timely and relevant career advice.

Episode 1:.Why Take Charge of Your Career

Episode 2: Secrets to an Effective Job Search

Episode 3: The Job Search Process

Episode 4: Job Search Killers

Summer Missions with CVM
 Several years ago I wrote to many of you about the opportunity to help support University of Tennessee veterinary students who desired to be involved in veterinary missions.  At that time we raised enough money to send students to Nicaragua, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Africa where these students partnered with a mission organization and spend 1 to 6 weeks working in a third world country. We have always worked through Christian Veterinary Missions (CVM) and other Christian missionary organizations.  We have 4 students planning to go to Ethiopia, Brazil and Nicaragua this summer.

We need your help!  Our travel fund is gone and needs to be replenished to continue sending students in the coming years.  The students are required to raise one-half of their expenses and we match that to make it possible for them to be involved in sharing the gospel of Christ through veterinary medicine.  It changes the students' lives as well as the lives of the people to whom they minister.  Let me share with you some comments from students who have been involved in veterinary missions on recent trips.  One said, "Our 2 day bus ride took us to a village to care for cows and horses and develop relationships that would lead to opportunities to share the Gospel."  Another stated," That day confirmed to me that, yes, I was there to do veterinary work, but ultimately I was there to share the Gospel and love of Jesus Christ".

If you would like to partner with these students, please consider a financial contribution to the Tennessee Travel Fund at CVM.  Please be sure this is in addition to your regular support of CVM.  Any amount is appeciated and will be used only to support this travel.  Designate your checks for Tennessee Student Travel Fund and send to Christian Veterinary Mission, 19303 Fremont Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98133.

Your contribution will be a blessing to people who need to hear the gospel and who need care for their animals.

God Bless You

 D.J.Krahwinkel

State Veterinarian's Office News

 State News
 
 Trichomoniasis requirements for the importation of breeding bulls into Tennessee is now listed in the Orders of the State Veterinarian section of our website. For more details please visit the TDA website under Orders for Bulls.

• July 8 - UTCVM Summer Pet Memorial Celebration
• July 16-19, 2011 - AVMA Convention 2011 - St. Louis, MO
• August 22-28 - UTCVM Equine Rehab Certificate Program
• Sept 11 - UTCVM Fall Pet Memorial Celebration
• Sept 29-Oct 2, 2011 - Southwest Veterinary Symposium - San Antonio, TX
• Oct 17-23 - UTCVM Equine Rehab Certificate Program
• 2011 - World Veterinary Year - 250th Year Anniversary of Veterinary Medicine