Caption Contest Winners!

Thank you for everyone who submitted captions for the caption contest from the last Issue! And the winners are:

"All treats must go the lab for testing." - submitted by Laci Taylor from Cornell!

"Is it the catnip, or do you look funny upside down?" - submitted by Elisa Meyer from North Carolina State University!

Thank you both for your submissions, and thank you to Sarah Lesiecki from the Ohio State and Neda Othman from UC Davis for the adorable photos of their pets!

Trivia Answer

Happy Monday, Vet Gazetters! Last issue's trivia question was: "Which animal's poop is cubed shaped so as not to fall of rocks and marks their territory?" The correct answer was the wombat! Congrats to Brianna Boyle from Texas A&M University for being the first to correctly guess that answer!

Merck Manuals Vet Student Bloggers to Provide Timely Commentary in New Year

Kenilworth, N.J. (January 2019) – An eclectic lineup of veterinary students, writing for the Merck Manuals Vet Student Stories blog, will share their experiences while in school and offer takes on newsworthy issues that emerge in 2019.

Posts are organized into these categories:

• Vet Student Experience
• Vet School Advice
• Clinical Experience
• Human-Animal Bond
• Maintaining Balance
• Trending Topics

The diverse team of nine contributors is composed of veterinary students at various stages of study from a variety of universities in North America.

Blog entries range from a must-read for students on balancing social life, academic success, and physical wellness, to a touching recount of a visit to a shelter that stresses techniques for fear-free handling of homeless animals.

The veterinary student blog can be accessed at vetstudentstories.merckmanuals.com.

Merck Manuals Student Stories is a collaboration between active students and The Merck Manuals, a series of reference books about human and animal health, the content of which is available online.

Online Resource for Animal Health Professionals

MerckVetManual.com offers authoritative guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders and diseases in companion, exotic, laboratory, and food animals, as well as contributor editorials, a newsfeed, quizzes and case studies, and interactive tools.

Provided as a public service by Merck & Co., Inc., access to the website is free, unlimited, and there is no registration. The user experience is never compromised by advertising or commercial messaging.

Book and Free App

The Merck Veterinary Manual was first published in 1955 and is now in its 11th edition.

Nearly 400 veterinary experts from academia, government, research organizations, and specialty practices contributed to the latest update of the book.

The Merck Veterinary Manual is available as a mobile app for Apple and Android devices and can be downloaded at no charge.

About Merck 

For more than a century, Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases.

Can Veterinary Education SAVE the Planet?

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Can Veterinary Education SAVE the Planet?

Climate change is poised to be the most significant global health threat of the 21^stcentury. Building on the just-released US Climate Assessment Report, Colorado State University students are advocating that veterinarians get involved in this important issue. As part of a second-year elective course, a group of students have designed a survey to assess what veterinary students know, and want to know, about the relationship between climate change and health. Responses will be used to help shape educational opportunities and at the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to join the SAVE community and be entered to win cool schwag. Make your voice heard now!  The survey can be accessed through this hyperlink:

 SAVE: Sustainability Advocacy in Veterinary Medicine

The deadline to take this survey is Thursday, February 14th!!

If you have any questions or difficulty accessing the survey, please contact savevetmed@gmail.com

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Lilli Slippers

These beautiful, creative pieces were submitted by Jessica Trubey from Lincoln Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Who is Lilli? - A girly, strong-willed, fastidiously clean, independent, hard-working, loving, and frustratingly particular German lady. She is a wife, a sister, a mother, and “Omi” to seven grandchildren. (I’m one of those.) For as long as anyone can remember, she’s been outfitting the whole family with her famous knitted slippers. If you could see us gathered around for Thanksgiving sharing kaffee and kuchen, you’d see all feet lovingly slippered under the table. And more than just our family wear them; friends and roommates and boyfriends along the way all requested a pair for themselves.
When I was around 15, I figured it was time for me to learn to make them too so I could keep the tradition going. Those first few pairs were rough, and I’m sure it was nearly impossible for her to resist taking the needles from me to do it herself so she could “do it right”, as is her habit with other things in life. 
Now I make them myself and have found that knitting while sitting in my lectures in veterinary school helps me listen and focus better. Your purchase will contribute in a drop-in-the-ocean way to my student loans, and in a more significant way to the family tradition of the sought-after Omi slippers.

 

 

"Teammates" - charcoal drawing
"Giselle" - acrylic painting