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AHIS (UK & Ireland) Conference 2004 |
| The aim of this year's annual conference is to look at the changing veterinary profession and the information needs which result from these changes. These changes result from new educational requirements, new ways of distributing information, new ways of looking at information gathering, and even new diseases themselves. |
| PROGRAMME |
| OPEN ARCHIVES INITIATIVE Frederick Friend, Honorary Director, Scholarly Communications, University College London. SPARC and OSI Senior Consultant. Some members of AHIS UK&I heard Frederick give an extremely interesting talk about the Open Archiving at the International conference (ICAHIS4) in 2003 and he has been invited to share his thoughts with the UK audience of animal health information specialists. Frederick will explain the lateral thinking which could result in published work being freely available, paid for at source, rather than using a subscription model for purchase. |
| EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Mr Peter D Cockcroft VetMB MSc DVM&S DCHP MRCVS, Epidemiology and Informatics Unit, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES Joint author of Handbook of Evidence-based Medicine, P.D.Cockcroft and M.A.Holmes. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1405108908. Peter has been asked to talk about the meaning of evidence-based medicine as it relates to veterinary surgeons. He suggests in his book that for veterinary medicine the definition could be "Evidence-based veterinary medicine is the use of current best evidence in making clinical decisions". He has been asked if he has opinions on the role of information providers in this decision-making process. |
| COCHRANE COLLABORATION Carol Lefebvre. Carol is an information specialist at Cochrane. She has been asked to give us an overview of Cochrane and also tell us about the practical use of it. Veterinary surgeons have a role to play in gathering and reviewing the evidence as well as using it. |
| FUTURE OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION Professor Julie Fitzpatrick BVMS MRCVS, Division of Farm Animal Medicine, University of Glasgow Veterinary School, Bearsden Road, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 1QH. Professor Julie Fitzpatrick has recently been appointed as the next chief executive and scientific director of the Moredun Group. She has been asked to speak about RCVS proposals for lifelong learning and the assessment of veterinary surgeons. |
| EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES Professor D U Pfeiffer, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire Professor Pfeiffer spoke to us at our 2002 conference about epidemiology of Foot-and-mouth disease. He is being invited again by popular request to tell us about work that he may be doing in relation to emerging and zoonotic diseases. |
| Booking forms for the conference will be sent out early in January - make a note in your diary now! |
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