To: Seniors
From: Ann Viera, Veterinary Librarian 974-9015, annviera

Reminder: AG-VET MED has 5 copies of the AAHA Associate's Survival Guide at SF756.4.V4 2005 (Includes resumes, cover letters, interviewing, negotiation, compensation, employment contracts) More employment assistance is available.

Two Interlibrary loan services: Illiad and Request in the Catalog

• ILLIAD is the free, fast interlibrary loan service for articles and books not available in the UT Libraries' collections. Tip: prior to clinics, login to ILLiad with NETID and Password and complete the registration form if you do not have an ILLIAD account. A benefit of prior registration is that when searching PubMed or CAB ABSTRACTS should you find that you don't have access to an article, click on the interlibrary loan link and-- poof--the ILLIAD request form is filled out automatically IF YOU HAVE AN ILLIAD ACCOUNT. Articles are delivered to your ILLIAD account.
  
  
• Request is a separate new service within the UT Libraries' Catalog. Use Request to 1) recall materials from another borrower or 2) Request that books or journals from the stacks at AG-VET MED or Hodges be delivered to the hold shelf for you to pick up.

Searching the literature to make clinical decisions: Web of Science, CONSULTANT, PubMed, and VIN

• About Google: don't use it. It isn't as efficient as CONSULTANT or VIN to make clinical decisions.
  
  
• If you use Google, 1) keep in mind the limitations (retrieval based on popularity, not quality or date) described in Henderson CMAJ June 7, 2005 "Google Scholar: A Source for Clinicians?" and 2) See Google Scholar FAQs to find out how to link to the UT Libraries' full-text journals when searching Google.
  
  
  

Web of Science--Cited Reference Searching --Why and How

"Cited Reference searching allows you to navigate forward, backward, and through the journal literature to uncover information relevant to your research." (Guide to Cited Reference searching 8/04 Thomson Co.)

Why to learn to do a Cited Reference search: An animal is in the teaching hospital with an unusual disease or disorder. The clinician hands you an article from his/her files on the disease or disorder. The article is five years old. You wonder what has been written about that disease/disorder since the article was published. Cited Reference searching in Web of Science will quickly find any articles that have cited the clinician's article.

Learn how to do a Cited Reference search in Web of Science: take the tutorial.

CONSULTANT, PubMed, VIN: Access to the veterinary literature for clinics and beyond

The three databases below index approximately the same 70+ veterinary journals. A brief guide comparing the three databases is available in pdf.

• CONSULTANT (Cornell) is the easiest to search.

It covers 7,000 diseases of 8 species. Avian is the only exotic covered. Free on the web.
See Handbook of Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine (SF748.C635) page 134-137 in the chapter Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems for a description of what CONSULTANT is and examples of how to use it.

Guide to CONSULTANT (.pdf)

• PubMed (National Library of Medicine/NIH) provides access to both human and veterinary medicine journals back to 1966, including a comprehensive site for consumer health (Medlineplus) for clients, friends, and family. Take the PubMed Tutorial in the blue bar on the left and/or see the Help and FAQ pages.

From the UT Libraries' databases page, type in PubMed. The benefit of getting to PubMed via the databases page is that the FIND TEXT button will link you to the full-text of the article, if available. PubMed is also free on the web at pubmed.gov.

Guide to PubMed for veterinarians

PubMed for PDAs

• VIN (Veterinary Information Network) provides access to the veterinary literature via the Search function plus: message boards, conference proceedings, Plumb’s, CE, Veterinary Partner for clients, and more. VIN claims to have 19,000 members of which 7,000 are students.
  VIN is free to veterinary students of sponsored universities who provide their student email address (e.g., myname@school.edu). To register, go to the student promo page.

Guide (VIDEO) to VIN is on the student page.
See especially: Searching on VIN
How to do a Basic Search
How to Fine Tune Your Search

How to Find Journals

• What to expect: most veterinary journals in English are available electronically from 2002 to the present. If the article you need is not available electronically, it will be in paper in the stacks.
  
  
• Electronic access to human biomedical and science journals at UT Libraries has never been better.
  
  
• When searching PubMed or Web of Science databases, use the Find Text link.
  
  
• If you need to find a journal volume in the stacks, a convenience list of heavily used veterinary journals is available to make it easier to quickly find call numbers. Paper copies of the convenience list are available in the AG-VET MED library in various places: the brochure rack, in the stacks, on the tables in the stacks (look for the pink paper). A .pdf version is also available. If a journal is not on this list, search the E-Journals list first, then the Catalog.
  
  
• Electronic Resource Use Guidelines:Fair use and copies
  
  • In accordance with the "fair use" provisions of Copyright Law, authorized users may make single copies of articles, print or electronic. Please read the Electronic Resource Use Guidelines to ensure you know the difference between fair and prohibited use and the consequences for the latter.
    

Employment Resources and Resume Writing Guides

• Employment Resources - Suggestions for additions to this list are welcome. It includes several guides to writing veterinary resumes.

Communication and Ethics

• Veterinary Clinics North America Volume 37 No. 1 January 2007 "Effective Communication in Veterinary Practice" Available in paper or electronically--see ejournals list.
  
• A Framework for Ethical Decision Making -- University of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics
  
• Tannenbaum, Jerrold. Veterinary ethics : animal welfare, client relations, competition, and collegiality. St. Louis: Mosby, c1995 2nd ed. AgVet Lib stacks: SF756.39.T36 1995
  
• Lagoni, Laurel. Connecting with clients : practical communication techniques for 15 common situations. Lakewood, Colo: AAHA Press, 1998. AgVet Lib stacks: SF745 .L34 1998
  
• Buckman, Robert. How to break bad news: a guide for health care professionals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Hodges stacks: R727.3.B83 1992 - Use Library Express to have it delivered to AgVet.
  
• How to break bad news [videorecording] AgVet Lib R727.3 .H68 1985. Summary: Explains the difficulties surrounding the breaking of bad news and offers a practical five-point protocol that allows the practitioner to assess the patient's understanding of his or her situation and to tailor the information to the patient's needs and wishes.
  
• Catanzaro, Thomas E. Building the successful veterinary practice. Ames: Iowa State University Press, c1997. AgVet Lib stacks: SF760.L43 C37 1997 vols.1-3
  
• Milani, Myrna M. The Art of Veterinary Practice : a guide to client communication. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1995. AgVet Lib stacks: SF745.M55 1995.
  
• Boss, Nan. Educating Your Clients from A to Z: What to Say and How to Say it. AgVet Lib stacks: SF756.4.B66 1999
  
• Gorman, Carl. Clients, Pets, and Vets: Communication and Management. AgVet Lib stacks: SF756.4 .G67 2000.
  
• Kurtz, Suzanne M. Teaching and learning communication skills in medicine. AgVet Lib Stacks: R727.3 .K87 2005.
  
• Silverman, Jonathan, Dr. Skills for communicating with patients. AgVet Lib Stacks: R727.3 .S56 2005.
  
• Ackerman, Lowell, /Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Practice Mangement Consult, /Agvet Lib Stacks KF2994.C45 2006
  
• Communication and Animal Welfare in Veterinary Practice--a Teaching Video from UPEI Ag-Vet Library Stacks SF613 .C66 2003
  About the video from the UPEI website: Veterinarians need skills in communication if they are to show leadership in animal welfare - to clients and colleagues, and collectively to the public. We have therefore developed a video-based teaching module for veterinary students, called Communication & Animal Welfare. The video shows dramatised examples from small animal and large animal practice, in which a new graduate encounters resistance from colleagues and clients in promoting animal welfare. The cases concern: the use of local anesthesia for dehorning calves; treatment of a downer cow; and treatment of an aged dog with multicentric lymphoma.
  
• Exam Room Communication (Scenarios on CD) AG-VET Stacks SF610.5.G76 2000
  
• The Medical Interview: The Three-Function Approach by Cole and Bird AG-VET Stacks RC65.C65 2000
  
  

Residency and Internship Information

• Veterinary Internship and Residency Matching Program Directory - The Match Book.
• Getting Into a Residency, 6th edition - by Iserson. AgVet Lib stacks: RA972.I74 2003
• Staying Human During Residency Training - by Peterkin RA972.P48 1998. From a Canadian perspective. One of our residents checked this book out several years ago for his wife...she didn't believe the title.
• The Residency Match: 101 Biggest Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - by DeSai. AgVet Lib stacks: R840.D47 2003.

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Updated March 28, 2008