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Research assistance is available, even on Saturdays!!

Ann Viera
Veterinary Librarian
(865)974-9015


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Pendergrass Library Veterinary Student Wiki

  • Your participation in this site is welcome.  To be added --click here.   Questions? contact the Veterinary Librarian, Ann Viera.

  • To get started, choose a page to browse below or search using the search box at the top right of the page. For more information about this wiki, visit our About page or FAQs page. For a full discussion of site changes, editing, and access, visit Google’s Sites information pages.


How to Assess the quality of Web sites and References:

  • Evaluating web sites (Purdue University)- discusses the ABC's of evaluating websites - authority/accuracy, balance/bias, and currency/coverage/content

First Year Students:

Sign up for VIN, the Veterinary Information Network.  Accounts are free.  Must supply your .edu email address.  VIN is 41,000 member community as of Summer 2009.  About 10,000 are veterinary students: this has implications for message board posts.  Close to 100% of UT CVM veterinary students have accounts on VIN.  

     Anatomy

  • Virtual Cat Dissection- from Penn State, real images document dissection of a cat, showing external anatomy to the nervous system
  • Anatomy Images for vet students collected by  Donald R Adams, Professor Emeritus, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State
    Orientation to ABLE
  • For ABLE (problem-based learning cases) orientation: Download the printable quick guide to finding articles, books, and journals at the bottom of the page: "Seven Steps to Get the Most out of UTK/Pendergrass Libraries".
    WikiVet--request password to get full access to content



Fourth Year Students:

The AAHA Associate's Survival Guide at SF756.4.V4 2005 includes resumes, cover letters, interviewing, negotiation, compensation, employment contracts.  Check out one of the Library's five copies when you begin to look for a job.  More employment assistance is available.

Residency and internship information

Career & Employment Information and the Business of veterinary medicine

North American Veterinary Licensing Examination information & resources

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Problem-Based Learning Cases
(AKA ABLE)--resources for individual cases





More resources for all students:



Searching literature to make clinical decisions

How to find journals

Interlibrary loan services

Websites

Software to Collect, Manage, and Cite sources: EndNote and Zotero



Communication skills resources

Issues in  veterinary medical education

Pet and human health resources

Animal behavior sources for veterinary students

Human-animal bond as related to veterinary education (UC DAVIS)

If you would like to edit the wiki, feel free to sign your name or add a favorite quote to our wall.

Contact: Ann Viera, Veterinary Librarian 974-9015,

annviera

 

Wiki site constructed and maintained by Sarah Wright, Pendergrass Graduate Library Assistant 

December 2008