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Decoding Compliance: What You Need to Know about the DEA, Controlled Drugs, and Premises Permits in Your Shelter - Legal Considerations with Shelter PALS This course will simplify, distill, and deliver the essential knowledge you need to navigate drug and premises permit regulations.
Veterinary Care in Shelters: Who Can Legally Do What? - Legal Considerations with Shelter PALS Learn how to fully leverage the veterinary care capabilities of your entire team!
Redefining the Gold Standard: A New Framework for More Accessible Care At best, one-size-fits-all thinking in veterinary care limits our ability to help—and feels disempowering on both sides of the exam table. At worst, care without context results in barriers that prevent us from even meeting the pets who need us most.
Small Patients, Big Procedures: Weighing Pediatric Spay and Neuter Considerations This discussion covers everything from pre-surgical candidate considerations, anesthesia tweaks, and recovery, to barriers and implications for shelters and access-to-care programs. You’ll find a conversation that’s as accessible as it is evidence-based.
Pills, Skills, and New Bills: Keeping the California Shelter Clinic Compliant California has expanded what shelter veterinarians, technicians, and staff can legally do—but interpreting the details can be tricky. We translate current requirements and evolving guidance around compounding, delegation, and veterinarian-of-record (VOR) into practical guardrails you can use tomorrow.
Navigating Access to Care: Veterinarian Roles and Goals Inside and Outside the Shelter Access to care looks different depending on where—and how—you practice. We center the veterinarian’s role across settings inside and outside the shelter, unpacking how veterinarians balance medical priorities and operational realities while partnering with pet owners, community orgs, and other practitioners.
Shelter Med LIVE from Animal Care Expo Expo FOMO? Tune in for a special April 8 edition of Shelter Med LIVE from Animal Care Expo! We’re bringing veterinarians from the conference floor to one Zoom room for a fun, fast-paced roundtable. They’ll share top tips and takeaways from the critical topics they’re presenting, how to access information after the sessions are over, or find out more if you can’t attend.