CE Resources
CE Resources & Links
With the core values of integrity, compassion, modern medicine, collaboration, and efficiency, CE and growth is important for EVERY member of our team. The resources can help you meet your goals for self-guided learning, aid you in presentations and blog articles, social media posts AND help you meet standards for profit sharing bonuses, if applicable.
If you come across a link that doesn’t work, please notify the Hospital Manager via Slack. If you find new resources, please also let the Hospital Manager know via Slack. Thank you for your help!
Website Resources
Most of these companies also have Facebook and IG pages where they offer one-time virtual events, talks, and classes – check them out!
https://veterinaryeuthanasiaeducation.com/ – up to 6.5 hours of CE surrounding euthanasia and end-of-life care
https://ellevetacademy.com/course-catalog
Idexxlearningcenter.com – Free website with webinars, seminars and conferences about diseases, diagnostics, practice management, STEPs, and product training for all of our diagnostic machines in the hospitals.
Simplified ILC registration steps: To create an ILC account with the simplified process, users can go to idexxlearningcenter.com click sign in, and will be prompted to:
- Provide a valid personal email address and create a password
- Confirm account registration via confirmation email
- Provide basic user profile information, including first and last name, country, and language
- How to talk to clients about recommended testing
- Diseases such as parvovirus, kidney disease, Cushing’s, diabetes and more
- Diagnostics on critical care, ECG, Fecals, cytologies, radiology, and more
- VTNE preparation and practice tests
- How to run certain tests on our machines
- How to run quality control tests, maintenance, rebooting, cleaning, and more
https://www.proheart6.com/proheart-certification.aspx: This certification is required to be able to administer Proheart 6 & 12 to patients
https://www.elancoresources.com/: Educational Information about all of Elanco’s products, including:
- Interceptor Plus
- Credelio
- Galliprant
- Onsior
- Vaccines
- And more
https://vetvance.com/advance: Launch your Veterinary career with help in Business skills, Professional Development, Financial literacy, professional stewardship, and personal wellness.
Learn.zoetisus.com: At Zoetis Learning Solutions, it’s our goal to provide you and your team access to quality online education. By signing up today, you can gain access to:
- Professional development opportunities
- RACE-Approved continuing education course credit
- Knowledge expansion in key disease areas
- Product-level training, information and support
https://www.dispomed.com/veterinary-triage-protocol-best-practices-for-fro nt-office-staff/: Lots of very informative articles
https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/: Informative articles, CE, Podcasts, and more
- https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/article/art-telephone-triage
- https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/veterinary-podcast
- https://www.cliniciansbrief.com/topics
https://capcvet.org/– Companion Animal Parasite Council is an organization that is dedicated to increasing awareness of the threat of parasites present to pets and family members
Vettechprep.com: Excellent website to help study for your VTNE. Get a 45 days access for $149, a 90 day access for $179, or a 180 day access for $269. They offer monthly payments as well.
https://iscaid.org/– International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases – Dedicated to improving the care of pets with infectious diseases and controlling the spread of these diseases through awareness.
https://go.atdove.org/– is a teaching hospital that offers amazing video lessons applicable to all positions in our hospital. You can do a free trial and watch many videos. If enough of you are dedicated to getting some major learning in during a month, we may be able to purchase a 1 month trial for all of you too. If you’re ready for this, please use the LEAN board to bring it up.
https://www.pattersonvetuniversity.com/pages/course-catalog – offers many free courses on a diverse array of topics. Some paid courses too, but many free!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovGqp1rTboSZIXeVDsCFGg – VCSG in Chattanooga is working on a page with training videos.
https://cetambassador.virbac.com/ – Dental Authority Certification Program – dental care, dental surgery, communicating about dental
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/wellbeing/qpr-suicide-prevention-training – QPR training helps you to identify those at risk for suicide, including yourself. Training is free for all vet professionals through this link
https://www.heartwormsociety.org/ – stay up to date with the latest on heartworm disease. Learn about the important disease and how to talk to owners about it
https://catvets.com/education/elearning – cat friendly CE
https://fearfreepets.com/fear-free-certification-overview/ – fear-free certification
AAHA also offers some educational classes for:
- Veterinary Assistants into Credentialed Technicians:
https://www.aaha.org/education/veterinary-assistants/distance-education-veterinary-technology-program-devtp/
- Veterinary Management Institute: https://www.aaha.org/education/practice-managers/veterinary-management-institute/
- Beyond Medicine Workshop (DVMs) : https://www.aaha.org/education/veterinarians/beyond-medicine-workshop/
- Plus many CE Credit Courses (with membership): https://www.aaha.org/education/all-veterinary-professionals/aaha-learning/
https://www.midwestvetsupply.com/wps/portal/c/continuing-education – offers a general library for online CE lectures as they become available. Some from AMAZING people. Check back often. Most are free.
https://www.purinaproplanvets.com/webinars – Purina CE – they offer plenty of topics, not just nutrition
https://my.royalcanin.com/benefits/veterinary-community – Free CE from Royal Canin. You do have to create an account
https://hillsathomece.com/ – Free CE from Hills.
www.thinkanesthesia.education – Anesthesia-specific learning from Jurox.
www.vetmedteam.com/classes-free.aspx – Variety of options. Compassion Fatigue course looks good.
https://azvma.org/page/WellnessResources – Not lectures specifically, but a ton of good wellness resources. Additionally, if someone would like to take charge of creating a clinic-wide wellness program it would be a GREAT opportunity!
https://www.vetfolio.com/pages/trial-page Some free courses here; can also look under “sponsored content.”
https://www.heartgardclinic.com/
https://www.vaccineceseries.com/
https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/veterinarians/webinars/
https://cliniciansbrief.com/continuing-education
https://learning.myisolved.com/classroom/course-categories/8/courses – Not veterinary specific, but apply as well.
https://www.bi-connect.com/customer/account/login/ – Boehringer Ingelheim-related CE. It does require login; each staff member will have their own. If you don’t have one, contact the Hospital Manager.
https://www.nationwidepetconnect.com/education/
https://www.brainshark.com/1/content/en/portal/home – I wouldn’t bother with this one unless you’ve exhausted all the others. You’ll need to get login info from DDR/management. Some assorted lectures are available but mostly boring meeting minutes.
https://edquest.vgpvet.com/enrollments – username: [email protected] password: Creekside
https://learn.ignitevet.com/enrollments – username: [email protected] password: Creekside
https://connect.vetriproline.com/behavior-champion/ – To Your Champion
You did it, you reached your Zoetis goal!
What now? You must follow the rules or you’ll get a bill. The rules:
- Each team member can submit lab work for ONE pet to ZRL between now and the end of the day on Oct 30. (It has to get to ZRL and be run by the end of the month)
- You must use a PAPER SUBMISSION form which can be found in the lab on a shelf kind of above the POC analyzers. The forms look yellow from the side.
- Mark EMPLOYEE on the form
- The lab test has to be run at ZRL. POC tests do not count, AND, forwarded tests do not count. For example – a GI panel that you send to ZRL and they turn around and send it to TAMU – would not be free to you. This is ZRL rule, not mine. If you are wondering if a test gets fowarded on, call them to ask. Please do so on your own time, not on the clock.
- Help your teammates. We all have different strengths. Teach someone a towel wrap. Teach someone a jugular draw. Teach someone timing for giving snacks. Teach yourself a towel hold you’ve not tried in reality before. Work as a team.
- When you are working on your own pet, do so on your break. NOT on the clock.
Way to go! Labwork is a super important part of early detection and when we hit this goal, it’s because we have helped people help their pets! And that makes the world a better place!
You will need to enter your email address and then choose account type – in this case Vet Clinic Employee Discount Program. Then click start application. Everything in the application will be your personal information except for the clinic account number. This will be the VET-561011-001 number. The full number must be entered to ensure that the food ships to the proper location.
Once the application is submitted, CFP accounts are generally ready after about an hour. You should receive an email with your own account number (CFP-xxxxxx). Once you receive this, you can go to https://my.royalcanin.com and click register. You will enter the information as it was entered in on the application, this time the account number you will enter will be the CFP# provided in the email. You will be able to create a username and password to access your account on this form. Once that is submitted, you will be able to log in.
Once logged in, you will need to redeem your points for your discount. Wait for about 30 minutes after your account have been created, then hover over the person icon in the top right corner and go down to Royal Canin Academy or RC Academy. This will explain the program and the discount. You must read and accept the terms and conditions. Once you are directed to the RC Academy page, at the top, click on My Rewards and click on Get Discount to redeem your points. Once you have redeemed your points, you must wait overnight for the discount to show up on your account. Please wait until the discount shows in the cart to place the order.
The initial discount is good for 25% off of 1 order per month up to 70lbs. for 6 months. Before this 6 months is up, be sure to earn more points to renew your discount. To earn points, there are modules (short interactive videos) to learn more about Royal Canin products. Each module will earn you points, you can check your points total under the My Points link on the academy main page. You can use these points to extend your current discount of 25% or if the discount expires, you can use these to redeem a new discount.
All food will be shipped to the clinic address. Please contact RC Customer Support with any questions: 888-213-4486
Thanks to industry partners, a limited supply and variety of flea, tick, and heartworm prevention can be supplied to you at reduced to no cost. Availability varies year to year, and if necessary, priorities will go to employees with the highest employee development scores and tenure.
We are happy to announce a 20% discount on standard prices for our team. The IRS prohibits us from offering more without you claiming it as income on your taxes. Based on employee development scores and tenure, Pet Care Bucks may also be rewarded, but individuals should understand that they will be responsible for paying income taxes on Pet Care Bucks used. This could mean you are charged MORE in taxes on your next pay period after use, meaning your paycheck could be LESS than normal. This is the IRS’s rule, not ours! To offset this, Dr. Radford works hard with industry partners to help you to provide special extreme discounts in care on the annual Employee Appreciation Day, which is set to occur at the end of January each year. You will start your employment with the benefit of Delayed Payments. All balances on accounts must be paid within three business days of being adjusted by the Manager. You will receive a notification from the Manager via Slack when the adjustment has been made, and you will receive one additional notification 3-6 days later. Failure to pay your balance within 24 hours of your 2nd notice may be grounds for dismissal. Alternatively, you may lose your discount or not be allowed to have the benefit of Delayed Payment in the future.
Thanks to our Reference Laboratory, our team receives free labwork when sent out to the primary lab. Keep in mind – if the reference lab is forwarding a test to another, lab, they still charge us.
In the heartbreaking incident that it is time to say goodbye to your beloved pet, please know that our crematory partners offer no-cost private cremation for personal pets of our team members.