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Veterinary Forensics a Critical Scan of the Landscape MARCH 2020 | No 38 VETERINARY FORENSICS A CRITICAL SCAN OF THE LANDSCAPE DIAGNOSING LAMENESS IN OLDER DOGS DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY FELINE ZOONOSES ONE HEALTH HORSE BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS CANADIAN VIOLENCE LINK CONFERENCE 2020 REGIONAL SPRING CE SESSIONS WEBSITE: SBCVREGIONALSPRINGCE2020.EVENTBRITE.CA ai15744551488_SVP_BrandingPoster_2020_PR.pdf 1 11/22/2019 3:39:11 PM More Than Compounding C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Quality Compounded Medical Supplies Preparations Pharmacy Packaging Generic & Brand Medications Pharmacy Labels TM Summit Veterinary Pharmacy Inc. (SVP) is Canadian owned & operated. Ontario College of Pharmacists Certicate of Accreditation #38940. SVP will not compound a preparation in the same dose and dosage form as a commercially available product. FROM THE EDITOR Care without ne of the most fun parts of my work for Chapter members is speaking to the students at WCVM. We awarded two Chapter scholarships at September’s White Coat Ceremony, attended by Dr. Al Longair, Chapter President. And that event reminded me, as we go about our seemingly never-ending work to convince this Ogovernment to increase the number of seats at WCVM, that some of the most powerful stories Compromise. were right there in Saskatchewan. The opportunity arose for me to interview two BC students who were unable to secure BC-funded seats at WCVM. One had to move to Saskatchewan and apply through that province’s pool, and the other had to assume the burden of around $300,000 in debt to attend a school in the Caribbean. Both, really, were lost to the veterinary community here in BC through either putting down roots elsewhere or having a limited license not recognized here. Both are BC’s loss and Saskatchewan’s gain. It’s fitting, then, that our WCVM student liaison, the compelling storyteller Reina Fennell, COREY VAN’T HAAFF chose this issue to talk about focus and peripheral vision. She writes that perhaps veterinarians EDITOR as a whole can sometimes become so fixated on what we assumed was our goal that we can end up failing to alter our thinking when the situation changes. And that is the challenge facing us today as we begin to suffer under the inescapable weight of this shortage of veterinarians. I personally did not need the labour market study to convince me TAP ™ AS EW of the shortage. I get calls from veterinarians at their wits’ end as they cannot hire staff and can- LE O TO THE EDITOR IO F RM not continue to work at their current pace. I get calls from the pet-owning public asking if we can L Letters from members E >> D force veterinarians to work around the clock to provide on-call veterinary services. And yet, the are welcome. They may E labour market study proved our shortage was much more serious than I had originally thought. R be edited for length C I had become fixated on proving to the Ministry of Advanced Education that our need was real H and clarity. Email us at E and our stories compelling, and I had assumed that the necessary funding would follow. This is, A [email protected]. R S T after all, the impression I was left with after our meeting with the Deputy Minister and others in K W C I December of a year ago: that they wanted proof. And we provided proof. O T R Yet the Ministry continues to deny additional funding. So the situation has changed, and we M ON THE COVER need to change our focus and enhance our peripheral vision. 360° Photo of the wonderful Leo, broad-spectrum >> We now need to educate our clients about this shortage and the need to secure these 20 avail- protection I the dog-loving editor’s own cat. N able and additional BC-funded seats for BC students. We need to become individual lobbyists T Photo by Corey Van’t Haaff R E garnering support and momentum from our own constituencies: clients, family, friends. We need R O U C M E to understand that our voice has to be heard with greater clarity and increased volume, and that N R P D means that it is now time to ask others to start speaking for us and with us. W O T W O O R By the time you receive this issue of West Coast Veterinarian, we will have begun our public R IP ® M H P awareness campaign. Please feel free to join us in explaining to clients how this current shortage W L U might affect their future. S HOOKWORM Email: [email protected] Don’t compromise on external and internal parasite protection. Protect your canine patients against ticks and fleas with CredelioTM (lotilaner), and against five common worms including tapeworm and whipworm with Interceptor® Plus (milbemycin oxime/praziquantel). Talk to your Elanco representative today. CREDELIO INDICATIONS INTERCEPTOR PLUS INDICATIONS Credelio is indicated for the treatment and prevention of flea infestations (Ctenocephalides felis) and the Interceptor Plus is indicated for the prevention of heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis; and for the treatment and control of tick infestations [Amblyomma americanum (Lone Star tick), Dermacentor variabilis treatment and control of adult roundworms (Toxocara canis, Toxascaris leonina), adult hookworm (Ancylostoma (American dog tick), Ixodes scapularis (black-legged or deer tick) and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog caninum), adult whipworm (Trichuris vulpis), and adult tapeworms (Taenia pisiformis, Echinococcus tick)] for one month in dogs and puppies. multilocularis, Echinococcus granulosus, and Dipylidium caninum) infections in dogs and puppies. 2019 WCVM Fall Awards Program presentation of the 2019 WCVM Fall Awards Program presentation of the IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION CVMA-SBCV Chapter Scholarship to Elina Kalamkarova. CVMA-SBCV Chapter Leadership Award to Chloe Roberts. The safe use of Credelio in breeding, pregnant or lactating dogs has not been evaluated. Use with caution in dogs The label contains complete use information, including cautions, and warnings. Always read, understand and LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Al Longair, Chapter President, Elina Kalamkarova, and WCVM Dean Dr. Douglas Freeman. LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Al Longair, Chapter President, Chloe Roberts, and WCVM Dean Dr. Douglas Freeman. with a history of seizures. The label contains complete use information, including cautions, and warnings. Always follow the label, and use directions. read, understand and follow the label, and use directions. 4 WCV Credelio, Interceptor, Elanco and the diagonal bar logo are trademarks of Elanco or its affiliates. © 2020 Elanco PM-CA-19-0579 WCV CONTRIBUTORS ANGELICA BEBEL, DVM, Dipl. DORIS LEUNG, BSc, DVM, MPH, is AVDC, began her veterinary a graduate of Ontario Veterinary career as a Registered Animal College and has practised in Health Technician. In 2014, she British Columbia since 2016. She graduated from the Western is a locum veterinarian working at College of Veterinary Medicine several small animal practices in 22 program. Following graduation, she the Lower Mainland and completed practised general medicine in Vancouver before her Master of Public Health at the University of MARCH 2020 VETERINARY starting a residency in veterinary dentistry British Columbia in 2018. Her professional inter- at West Coast Veterinary Dental Services in ests include veterinary public health and zoonotic WEST COAST VETERINARIAN Vancouver. She received her Diplomate status in disease prevention, animal welfare, community FORENSICS ISSUE 38 the American Veterinary Dental College in 2018 outreach, and health communication. Since 2016, and has continued working locally at West Coast Dr. Leung has served as the regional director of West Coast Veterinarian is the quarterly A CRITICAL SCAN OF Veterinary Dental Services. Community Veterinary Outreach in Vancouver and has organized integrative “One Health” clinics to magazine of the CVMA-SBCV Chapter SARAH CHARNEY, DVM, Dipl. improve the health and well-being of marginalized THE LANDSCAPE ACVIM (ONCOLOGY), Dipl. ACVR pet owners and their companions in Vancouver’s EDITORIAL COMMITTEE (RADIATION ONCOLOGY), Downtown Eastside. As of 2019, she is an elected Sarah Armstrong, DVM, Chair graduated from University of council member of the College of Veterinarians of Christiane Armstrong, DVM Illinois College of Veterinary British Columbia. She spends her spare time read- Rick Stanley, DVM Medicine. She completed ing, making veterinary-related comic books and Kathryn Welsman, DVM residencies at the Animal Medical zines, climbing, and hiking with her Border Collie/ Center in New York (medical oncology) and German Shepherd, Mukwa. EDITOR Southwest Veterinary Oncology in Arizona Corey Van’t Haa (radiation oncology). She is a founding partner MARGIE SCHERK, DVM, Dipl. ABVP Email: [email protected] of Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital in (FELINE), graduated from Ontario Langley, BC. Veterinary College in 1982. In 1986 ART DIRECTOR she opened Cats Only Veterinary Karim Sharobim, BDes MARCH DAVID FRASER, CM, PhD, joined Clinic in Vancouver, practising COPY EDITOR UBC in 1997 as NSERC Industrial there until 2008. Dr. Scherk became Eva van Emden Research Chair in Animal board certified in feline practice by PUBLISHER Welfare. His work has led to many the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in CVMA-SBCV CHAPTER innovations in animal housing 1995, recertifying in 2004 and 2014. She founded 04 FROM THE EDITOR Email: [email protected] and management, from designing the feline medicine folder on VIN in 1994. An ac- Telephone: 604.406.3713 better pig pens to reducing highway tive international speaker and past president of PO Box 21088 Maple Ridge Square RPO 06 WCV CONTRIBUTORS accidents involving wildlife. He was appointed the AAFP, Dr. Scherk has authored numerous book Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for his Maple Ridge BC V2X 1P7 16 chapters and scientific papers and is the co-editor www.canadianveterinarians.net/SBCV work in animal welfare science. of the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery.
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