Continuing Education for the Triennial Licensure Period

·  The Iowa Board of Veterinary Medicine will be sending out renewal forms around the first of April 2008.  Your form will list your carry over hours from the previous licensure period.  The maximum carry over is 20 hours per licensure period.
·  Credits needed:
  o       00 for 2007 licensees
  o       20 for 2006 licensees
  o       40 for 2005 licensees
  o       60 for all others

.  If you have a question regarding your continuing education requirements, you may call the Board of Veterinary Medicine at 515/281-8617.

·  You may have up to 20 hours of home study.  Currently the only home study that has been approved by the Board is the Compendium.

·  If a seminar/course/meeting has been RACE (Registry of Approved Continuing Education) approved, those hours may be included in your total hours needed.

·  If you are unsure if a seminar/course/meeting has been approved by RACE or the Iowa Board of Veterinary Medicine, please contact the sponsor or host of the event.

Listed below are the events sponsored by the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association during the past three (3) years.
Species Date Hours Speaker Topic
Bovine 9/14/2007 0.50 Dr. Vickie Cooper Update on Calf Scour from the VDL
Bovine 9/14/2007 0.50 Dr. Dale Grotelueschen Vaccine Placement to Prevent Calf Scours
Bovine 9/14/2007 0.50 Dr. David Smith Sand Hills Method of Prevention of Calf Scours
Bovine 9/14/2007 0.50 Ms. Lucy Norton Iowa Renewable Fuels Association
Bovine 9/14/2007 1.00 Drs. Terry Engelken & Steve Ensley Update on Co-Products
Bovine 9/14/2007 1.50 Drs. Annette O'Connor & Terry Engelken Economics of Feedlot Testing - Effect on Performance
Large Animal General 9/14/2007 1.50 Ms. Kay Johnson Smith National Issues on the Horizon: Impacts on the Future of Animal Ag
Large Animal General 9/14/2007 0.25 Dr. James West & Dr. Locke Karriker Update on Preceptorships
Practice Management 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Dennis McCurnin NCVEI Benchmarking & Update
Practice Management 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Dennis McCurnin How to Own the Exam Room
Practice Management 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Dennis McCurnin Making Your Practice Successful
Practice Management 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Dennis McCurnin How to Manage Change in Your Practice
Companion Animal 9/13/2007 3.00 Dr. Lou Gotthelf 21st Century Ear Care
Companion Animal 9/13/2007 3.00 Dr. Lou Gotthelf Video Ear Scope Lab
Equine 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Wendy Vaala Common Problems in the Older Foal
Equine 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Wendy Vaala Care of the Brood Mare:  The First 11 Months & the Last 30 Minutes
Equine 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Wendy Vaala Update on Equine Infectious Disease - Focus on EHV-1
Equine 9/13/2007 1.50 Dr. Rocky Bigbie EVA Update
Small Ruminant 9/13/2007 6.00 Dr. David Pugh Herd/Flock Health for Sheep, Goats, Alpacas & Llama
Practice Management 9/13/2007 3.00 Ms. Marilyn Drury It's the 21st Century & Everything is Going Digital (Computer Training)
Companion Animal 9/14/2007 1.50 Dr. Mary Belle Glaze The Top Ten Ophthalmic Mistakes
Companion Animal 9/14/2007 1.50 Dr. Mary Belle Glaze Fundus Interpretation Made Real
Companion Animal 9/14/2007 1.50 Dr. Mary Belle Glaze Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Infections
Companion Animal 9/14/2007 1.50 Dr. Mary Belle Glaze Ocular Drug Update
Companion Animal 9/14/2007 4.50 Dr. James Underwood Digital X-Ray in Small Animal & Exotic Practice & Wet Lab
Swine 9/14/2007 0.50 Mr. Joe Kerns Alternative Feed Ingredients
Swine 9/14/2007 0.50 Dr. Ken Prusa Meat Quality Issues as Impacted by Feed Ingredients
Swine 9/14/2007 0.50 Mr. Gary Machan Packers Prospective on Pork Quality & Some Foreseeable Challenges
Swine 9/14/2007 0.50 Dr. John Lawrence Current Market Forecast for Feed Availability
Swine 9/14/2007 1.00 Dr. John Lawrence, Mr. Joe Kerns, Mr. Gary Machan Panel Discussion and Q&A on Meat Quality & Diet
Swine 9/14/2007 1.50 Dr. Cameron Schmitt Use of PVC2 Commercial Vaccine in Breeding Herds
Practice Management 4/19/2007 6.00 Dr. Mary Ann Vande Linde Teams That Work:  Bridging the Communication Gap
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Diagnosis & Treatment of Hypothroidism & Throiditis
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Update on Pathogenesis, Diagnosis & Treatment of Feline Hyperthyroidism
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Diagnosis of Hypoadrenocorticism:  Are We Missing the Boat
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Diagnosis of Canine Hyperadrenocorticism:  Role of Sex Hormones
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Medical Treatment of Hyperadrenocorticism
Companion Animal 2/7/2007 1.00 Dr. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff Diabetes Mellitus:  Update on Insulin Treatment in Dogs & Cats
Companion Animal 2/8/2007 1.00 Dr. Todd Tams Update on Clinical Gastroenterology of Dogs & Cats
Companion Animal 2/8/2007 2.00 Dr. Todd Tams Acute & Chronic Vomiting in Dogs & Cats
Companion Animal 2/8/2007 3.00 Dr. Todd Tams Acute & Chronic Diarrhea in Dogs & Cats
Equine 2/7/2007 3.00 Dr. Chad Zubrod Lameness Diagnosis & Therapy
Equine 2/7/2007 3.00 Dr. Brett Sponseller & Dr. David Wong Potomac Horse Fever & Lawsonia intracellularis:  Review, Field Treatment, Referral
Swine 2/7/2007 1.50 Dr. Butch Baker PCVAD:  Current Field & Research Perspectives
Swine 2/7/2007 1.50 Dr. Mark Whitney Feeding Distiller's Grains Co-Products to Swine:  Current Current Issues, Knowledge, and Research
Swine 2/7/2007 0.30 Dr. Kurt Steckelberg Case Study:  CPA Autogenous Vaccine Experience
Swine 2/7/2007 0.30 Dr. Brad Thacker Case Study:  SIV - Importance of Strain Variation w/Maternal Immunity
Swine 2/7/2007 0.30 Dr. Tanja Opriessnig Case Study:  Erysipelas in Pigs:  More than Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae?
Swine 2/7/2007 0.30 Dr. Locke Karriker Case Study:  Dealth Loss Monitoring Including Post-Mortem Surveys
Swine 2/7/2007 0.30 Dr. Kent Schwartz Case Study:  Swine Dysentery
Swine 2/7/2007 0.75 Dr. Steve Ensley Mycotoxin Testing
Swine 2/7/2007 0.75 Dr. Ken Stalder Factors Influencing Sow Longevity
Information Tech 2/7/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Create a Presnetation Using Microsoft's PowerPoint
Information Tech 2/7/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Intermediate Word Processing Skills:  Create a Newsletter
Information Tech 2/7/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Introduction to Spreadsheets
Information Tech 2/7/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Advanced Search Strategies Including Free Medical Databases
Information Tech 2/8/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Using the NCVEI's Benchmarking Program to Improve Your Business Practices
Information Tech 2/8/2007 1.50 Mr. Zac March Computer Health & Maintenance 101
Bovine 2/8/2007 1.50 Dr. Dan Loy Use of Co-Products in Cow/Calf & Dairy Feeding
Bovine 2/8/2007 1.50 Dr. Paul Fricke Ultrasound in Bovine Practice - Pregnancy Diagnosis/Fetal Sexing, Ovarian Structures & Hormone Levels
Bovine 2/8/2007 1.50 Dr. Jill Colloton Using Reproductive Ultrasound in Bovine Practice
Bovine 2/8/2007 2.00 Dr. Paul Fricke & Dr. Jill Colloton Ultrasound Wet Lab
Bovine 2/8/2007 1.50 Drs. Dave Duitscher, Steve Ensley, Ed Kreykes & Dan Loy Panel Discussion Regarding the Use of Co-Products
CA Surgery 2/8/2007 3.00 Dr. Brent Reimer Stifling Diseases of the Knee
Practice Management 12/7/2006 4.00 Dr. Todd Oss, Dr. Dennis Sorensen, Dr. Robert Billiar Best business practices
Companion Animal 9/29/2006 1.50 Dr. William Gengler Difficult Extractions
Companion Animal 9/29/2006 1.50 Dr. William Gengler Marketing Dentistry
Companion Animal 9/29/2006 1.50 Dr. William Gengler Oral Trauma
Swine 9/29/2006 1.50 Drs. Allen Trenkle/Bruce Babcock Competiton for food, will biofuels win?
Swine 9/29/2006 1.00 Dr. Laura Batista Porcine Circovirus associated diseases
Swine 9/29/2006 0.50 Dr. John Johnson Diagnostic report and information on samples
Swine 9/29/2006 0.50 Dr. Anna Johnson Drinking behavior in pigs
Swine 9/29/2006 0.50 Dr. Don Walter Key success factors for oral swine vaccines
Swine 9/29/2006 0.50 Dr. Locke Karriker Water based therapeutics
Equine 9/28/2006 3.00 Dr. Jim Schumacher & ISU Faculty Wet Lab at the CVM
Equine 9/28/2006 1.50 Dr. Jim Schumacher Practical Methods of Skin Grafting of Horses
Equine 9/28/2006 1.50 Dr. Jim Schumacher Diseases & Surgery of the Nasal Cavities & Sinuses of Horses
Small Ruminant 9/29/2006 1.50 Dr. Paul Plummer Update on Campylobacter Associated Abortions in Iowa
Small Ruminant 9/29/2006 3.00 Dr. Paul Plummer Small Ruminant Medicine Case Presentations
General 9/29/2006 1.50 Dr. Wesley Jamison Animal Welfare & Animal People:  Who, exactly, is the IVMA?
General 9/29/2006 0.50 Dr. Michael Bugeja Interpersonal Divide:  The Search for Community in a Technological Age
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 1.00 Dr. Janet Sears Merging Practices
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 1.00 Drs. Dave Wilgenbusch & Darwin Schipper Disability Insurance
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 1.00 Dr. Elaine Schope Companion Animal Pick Up Service
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 0.50 Dr. Ryan Steen Time Management/Client Service
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 0.50 Dr. Janet Wilson Pre-Surgical Documents
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 0.50 Drs. James Kenyon & Thomas Beall Practice Websites
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 0.50 Dr. James Kenyon Allergy Testing & Diet Modification
Practice Tips 9/27/2006 1.00 Dr. Thomas Beall Zoonotic Disease & Media Relations
General 9/28/2006 3.00 Dr. Charlotte Lacroix Paw & Order
General 9/28/2006 1.50 Dr. Charlotte Lacroix Ethical Practice-It Ain't Easy & It's Getting Tougher
General 9/28/2006 1.50 Dr. Charlotte Lacroix Internet Pharmacies & the Boogie Man-What They Have in Common
Bovine 9/28/2006 3.00 Dr. Tom Peters Current Practices & Challenges in Feedlot Cattle & the Changing Paradigm of the Northern Plains Feedlot Industry
Bovine 9/28/2006 0.33 Dr. Randy Wheeler State Johne’s Project
Bovine 9/28/2006 0.33 Dr. Annette O’Connor BVD PI Program
Bovine 9/28/2006 0.34 Dr. Ricardo Rosenbusch Mycoplasma bovis
Bovine 9/28/2006 0.50 Mrs. Jessica Ahrens Electronic Health & Preconditioning Certificates
Bovine 9/28/2006 1.50 Dr. Michael Sanderson Infectious Causes of Infertility
General 2/8/2006 1.50 Dr. Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt A Look at Recent Epidemics of Avian Influenza & the Role of Veterinarians in Regiona Disease Control
General 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. Dennis Woodruff, Jacki Strovers, Dr. Rexanne Struve, Amy Ashcraft, Anne Duffy, DeeDee Schumacher How to be Healthy, Wealthy & Wise!
Practice Management 2/8/2006 1.50 Mr. Fritz Wood Secrets of High-Performing Veterinary Practices
Practice Management 2/8/2006 3.00 Mr. Fritz Wood Capturing Everyday Opportunities
General 2/8/2006 1.00 Dr. Susan Brockus Rabies - Don't Feed the Frenzy, Fight Back with Facts
Bovine 2/8/2006 1.50 Dr. James West All One Needs to Know to Successfully Transfer Bovine Embryos
Bovine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Brent Meyer Understanding Health Numbers in Beef Cattle Feedlots
Bovine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Ed Kreykes Benchmarks & Bottlenecks
Bovine 2/8/2006 1.50 Dr. Vickie Cooper Diagnostic Sample Submission
Swine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Brad Lawrence How a Practicing Veterinarian can Trouble Shoot Nutritional Rations
Swine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Alex Ramirez Mycotoxins & Swine
Swine 2/8/2006 0.50 Dr. Bruce Janke People, Pigs, Poultry & Pandemic Influenza:  Who's Infecting Whom?
Swine 2/8/2006 0.50 Drs. George Beran & Lowell Anderson Zoonotic Swine Diseases
Swine 2/8/2006 0.50 Mr. Mark Shearer An Update on the IVRRT
Swine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Tim Loula Regional Eradication of PRRS & Other Swine Diseases
Swine 2/8/2006 0.75 Dr. Butch Baker PRRS Virus Eradication:  Ten Years of Field Experience
Companion Animal 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. Jody Lulich Getting Very Specific About Urine Specific Gravity
Companion Animal 2/9/2006 0.75 Dr. Jody Lulich Chronic Kidney Disease in Cats:  Improving Diagnosis & Therapy
Companion Animal 2/9/2006 0.75 Dr. Jody Lulich Urolith Management:  Is Surgery Anachronistic?
Companion Animal 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. Jody Lulich Improving Your Diagnosis & Therapy of FLUTD
Equine 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. K. Gary Magdesian Neonatal Gastroenterology
Equine 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. Doug Langer Advancing Equine Lameness w/MRI
Equine 2/9/2006 1.50 Dr. Robert R. Foss Breeding the Problem mare & Practice Tips in Equine Reproduction
Practice Management 12/7/2005 3.00 Dr. Charles Lemme, Dr. Ryan Steen, Dr. Darrell Winterowd, Dr. Brad Schipper Best business practices
Bovine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Lynn Locatelli Low Stress Cattle Handling: An Overlooked Dimension of Management
Bovine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. David Steffen Emerging Bovine Congenital Defects, Old Traints of Interest & Clinical Approaches
Bovine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Tom Peters Consideration of Attributes & Limitations of Various Feed/Food Co-Products When Included in Ruminant Diets
Bovine 9/29/2005 0.25 Dr. Jesse Hostetter Research Update on Johne's Diagnosis
Bovine 9/29/2005 0.50 Dr. Annette O'Connor & Dr. Steve Sorden Research Update on BVD Prevalence
Bovine 9/29/2005 0.50 Bovine Committee Preconditioning Program Update
Bovine 9/29/2005 0.25 Bovine Committee Scope of Practice Update - Embryo Transfer & Pregnancy Diagnosis
General 9/28/2005 4.00 Staff of the National Animal Disease Center Research Updates, Bacterial Diseases of Livestock, Periparturient Diseases of Cattle, Pre-Harvest Food Safety & Enteric Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Virus & Prion Diseases
General 9/30/2005 1.00 Dr. Kevin Kazacos Zoonotic Parasites from Pets & Wildlife: An Emerging Public Health Issue
Equine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Mark Crabill Assessment of the Painful Equine Abdomen
Equine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Mark Crabill Management of Synovial Wounds in the Horse
Equine 9/29/2005 0.75 Dr. Kent Carter The Use of Diagnostic Nerve Block in Lameness Evaluation
Equine 9/29/2005 0.75 Dr. Kent Carter The Use of Intra-articular Anesthesia in Lameness Evaluation
Equine 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Kent Carter Miscellaneous Foot Conditions
Companion Animal 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Jorg Steiner Approach to Dogs & Cats w/Chronic Diarrhea
Companion Animal 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Jorg Steiner Small Intestinal Disease in Dogs & Cats
Companion Animal 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Jorg Steiner Pancreatitis in Small Animals
Companion Animal 9/29/2005 1.50 Dr. Jorg Steiner Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency
Companion Animal 9/30/2005 2.00 Dr. William Tranquilli Pain & Its Management
Companion Animal 9/30/2005 1.50 Dr. William Tranquilli Update on Injectable Sedation & Anesthesia
Companion Animal 9/30/2005 1.75 Dr. Rick Alleman Biochemical Profiling in the Dog & Cat:  Putting it all Together
Swine 9/30/2005 2.00 Dr. Tom Burkgren Industry Perspectives on Antibiotic Use
Swine 9/30/2005 0.50 Dr. Matt Anderson PMWS:  A Clinica Perspective
Swine 9/30/2005 0.50 Dr. Kent Schwartz Porcine Circovirus:  Diagnostician's Perspective
Swine 9/30/2005 0.50 Dr. Brad Thacker Porcine Circovirus Type 2:  Deciphering the Impact of a Ubiquitous Virus
Swine 9/30/2005 0.50 Dr. Anna Johnson Animal Welfare: The Strengths & Weaknesses of Codes, Assessments & Law
Swine 9/30/2005 0.75 Dr. Wendy Powers Understanding the State & Federal Environmental Regulations
Swine 9/30/2005 0.50 Mr. Eldon McAfee Protecting Producers against Pollution Lawsuits
Small Ruminant 9/30/2005 0.75 Dr. Dan Morrical Ewe Feeding & Condition Scoring for Increased Ewe Productivity
Small Ruminant 9/30/2005 0.33 Dr. Dan Morrical Normal Production Values for Iowa Flocks
Small Ruminant 9/30/2005 0.92 Dr. Dan Morrical Use of Crossbreeding & Reproductive Management to Increase Production in Iowa Flocks
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