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  • RVC lecturer wins Times Higher Education innovative teacher award for ‘haptic cow'

    The Times Higher Education Awards

    At a glittering ceremony held in the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, on 15 October, and hosted by celebrity Clive Anderson, Sarah Baillie, of the RVC heard that she had won the Times Higher Education ‘Most Innovative Teacher' award for her inven…

    By: David Watson
    Published: 17 Oct 2009
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  • Veterinary Business Video Show - Episode 005

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    This post was written by guest contributor John Sheridan, who provides a range of management consultancy services to the global veterinary profession.…

    By: David Watson
    Published: 16 Oct 2009
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  • Orthopaedics and engineering combined at North Carolina State University to help ‘bionic' dog

    Cassidy and his owner.  (Photo: Philip Ruckart)

    Orthopaedic veterinary surgeon Dr Denis Marcellin-Little and engineering professor, Dr Ola Harryson, of North Carolina State University, have used the groundbreaking technology of osseointegration to fit amputee dogs and cats with permanent prosthetic lim…

    By: Peter Beaumont
    Published: 13 Oct 2009
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  • Are you brave enough to find out what your clients really think of you?

    Client survey questionnaire

    Very few veterinary hospitals survey their clients for their satisfaction with services offered. Is this because they really are not that interested, fear the results, or feel that such tools are "too commercial"?…

    By: Peter Beaumont
    Published: 07 Oct 2009
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  • Cause of bleeding calf syndrome still not clear

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    European veterinary scientists and agriculturalists are mystified as to the exact cause (or causes) of an acute clinical syndrome affecting calves under the age of one month.…

    By: David Watson
    Published: 06 Oct 2009
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  • No more portfolios for UK student veterinary nurses

    RCVS VN careers booklet front cover

    The traditional NVQ ‘portfolio' system for student veterinary nurses could be phased out from summer 2010, under draft proposals from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).…

    By: David Watson
    Published: 05 Oct 2009
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