PAST
MEETING TOPICS
 | 2009 (Seattle, WA) |
Topic: to be announced soon
| 2008 (New Orleans, LA) |
Topic:
1. Incentive Pay Plans for Veterinarians; Do They Work and are They Here to
Stay?"
2. The Ethics of Using Incentive Pay Plans to Reward Clinical Veterinarians
3. Cloning In Veterinary Medicine
4. Stem Cell Research
5. How the AVMA Animal Welfare Division and Animal Welfare Committee Identify and Come to Conclusions on Specific Issues
6. The New Face of Animal Research
7. When the Law and Ethics Collide
8. Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association
Shomer Award
| 2007 (Washington, D.C.) |
Topic: New Ethical Directions in The Veterinary Profession
1. Ethical Conflicts Between General Practitioners and Specialists
2. Ethical Conundrums Arising From Over Treatment of Animals with Poor Prognosis
3. Cases of Ethical Consternation at a Veterinary Referral Hospital
4. Preventing Over Treatment at a Veterinary Cancer Referral Clinic
5. Ethical Decision Making at Times of Owner - Veterinarian Conflict
| 2006 (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
Topic: New Ethical Directions in The Veterinary Profession
1. The Veterinarian’s Oath: A Critical Review
2. Professionalism, Collegiality, and Etiquette: A Historical Perspective
3. Latest Animal Welfare, and Ethical Issues on the West Coast
4. Inability to Pay For The Cost Of Caring: An Ethicist’s Point of View
5. Ethical Practice Management Issues Involved When Clients Can’t Afford The Cost of Care
6. Do Good, Do Well: A Practitioner’s Experience, in a “Poor” Part of Town
7. Legal Issues involved With Client’s Inability to Pay For the Cost of Caring
Shomer Award - check the AVMA web site for more information
| 2005 (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
Topic 1: Ethical dilemmas in production animal agriculture
1. An Ethicist View of Ethical Dilemmas in Production Animal Agriculture
2. A Veterinarian's view of Ethical dilemmas in Production Animal Agriculture I: Ruminants
3. A Veterinarian's view of Ethical dilemmas in Production Animal Agriculture II: Swine
Topic 2: The Veterinarian's role in the Ethical dilemmas related to all creatures great and small
1. Ethical Dilemmas Associated with Iatrogenic Diseases
2. Oncology and Ethics
3. What Are Our Obligations to Wild Creatures?
| 2004 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
Topic 1: Ethics and ownership/guardianship
Part I: $250K in Emotional Distress Damages for the Loss of a Pet
Part II: Animal Ownership vs Animal Guardianship
Topic 2: Ethics and Animal Welfare
Part I: Understanding Animal Welfare: Science in a Cultural Context
Part II: Animal Welfare and Swine Production: Incentives for Changes
| 2003 (Denver, Colorado) |
Topic 1: Ethics and the Human Animal Bond
Part I: Working with the Weakest Link: Should the Strength of the Human Animal Bond
Affect the Way you Practice?
Part II: Is Marketing the 'Bond' Morally Reprehensible?
Topic 2: Ethics and Cancer
Part I: Ethics of Cancer Therapy
Part II: Compassionate Cancer Therapy
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2002 (Nashville, Tennessee) |
Topic 1: Contemporary Issues in Veterinary Ethics
Part I: Ethics, Evidence and Medicine: The Ethical Challenge Inherent in the
Emerging Phenomenon of Alternative Medicine.
Part II: The Ethics of Critical Care.
Topic 2: The role of Pharmacist and the Pharmacy in Veterinary Care
Part I: The Role of Mortar and Pestle versus Brick, Mortar or Ethers.
Part II: Reflections by Industry and Internet Providers
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2001 (Boston, Massachusset) |
Topic 1:
What is a
Profession?
What are the Ethical
Foundations of the Veterinary Profession?
Topic
2: Legal
Considerations in Veterinary Telemedicine, Parts I & II
Ethical
Considerations in Online Veterinary Services
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2000 (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Topic 1:
Ethical
Relationships between Veterinarians and Humane Organizations Topic 2: Ethical Issues in a Large Corporate Practice (with Panel Discussion)
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| 1999 (New
Orleans, Louisiana) |
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1998 (Baltimore, Maryland) Topic 1: You Gotta Serve Somebody: Ethical Issues in Veterinary Practice Topic 2: Veterinay Ethics: A View from the Licensing Board
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1997 (Reno,
Nevada) |
