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| What is ONE of the visitors that came to our class? |
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| State Veterinarian- Dr. Tony Frazier |
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| Where was the first vet school and when was it founded? |
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| Who is the "voice" of organzied veterinary medicine? |
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| What is the veterinarian-client-patient relationship? |
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| It is the basis for interaction among veterinarians, their clients, and their patients. |
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| What is an attending veterinarian? |
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| A veterinarian who assumes responsibility for primary care of a patient. A VCPR is established. |
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| What is a consulting veterinarian? |
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| A veterinarian who agrees to advise an attending veterinarian on the care and management of a case. The VCPR remains the responsibility of the attending veterinarian. |
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| Who is the referral veterinarian or receiving veterinarian? |
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| A veterinarian who agrees to provide requested veterinary services. A NEW VCPR is established. The referring and referral veterinarians must communicate. |
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| What is an ethical product? |
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| a product for which the manufacturer has voluntarily limited the sale to veterinarians as a marketing decision. Such products are often given a different product name and are often given a different product name and are packaged differently than products that are sold directly to consumers. |
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| A synonymous term for a veterinary prescription drug. The name referes to the statement (legend) that is required on the label. |
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| What is an Over the Counter (OTC) drug? |
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| Any drug that can be labeled with adequate direction to enable it to be used safely and properly by a consumer who is not a medicial professional. |
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| What ia prescription drug? |
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| A drug that cannot be labeled with adequate direction to enable its safe and proper use by non-professionals. |
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| What is a veterinary prescription drug? |
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| A drug that is restricted by federal law to use by or on the order of a liscensed veterinarian, according to section 503 (f) of the federal Food, drug, and cosmetic act. |
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| What is dispensing when it comes to veterianry drugs? |
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| The direct distribution of products by veterinarians to clients for use on their animals. |
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| What is prescribing when it comes to veterinary drugs? |
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| The transmitting of an order authorizing a licensed pharmacist or equivalent to prepare and disense specified pharmaceuticals to be used in or on animals in the dosage and in the manner directed by a veterinarian. |
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| What is marketing when it comes to veterinary drugs? |
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| Promoting and encouraging animal owners to improve animal health and welfare by using veterinary care, services, and products. |
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| What is merchandising when it comes to to veterinary drugs? |
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| The buying and selling of products or services |
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| What is the defintion of ethos? |
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Shared fundamental traits: the fundatmental and distinctive character of a grou, social context, or period of time, typicaly expressed in attitudes, habits, and beliefs.
synonyms: philospophy, beliefs, character, code...etc. |
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| What does SKAAF stand for? |
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| Skills, knowledge, aptitude, attitude and FUNdamentals |
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| What is the true test of ethics? and what is the concern of the vet for? |
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Compassion.
1. Patients
2. clients
3. Public at large
4. Colleagues |
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| The AVMA judicial council is charged to advise on what of the Association? |
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Interpretation of bylaws
Questions of veterinary medical ethics
Other rules of association |
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| What should Veterinarians first consider? |
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| The needs of the patient: to relieve disease, suffering, or disability while minimizing pain or fear. |
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| If a veterinarian has not been awardded certification of an AVMA recognized specialty organization is it ethical? |
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| IN EMERGENCIES is it ethical for veterinarians to provide essential services for animals when necessary to save life or relieve suffering, subsequent to client agreement? |
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| YES it is an ethical responsibility. |
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| Is it ethical for a veterinarian to slander or injure the professional standing or reputation of another veterinarian if it is false or misleading information? |
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| Is it unethical for veterinarians to not protet the personal privacy of patients and clients? |
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| Dispensing or prescribing a prescription product requires what? |
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| Veterinarians may terminate a VCPR when? |
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| under certain conditions, and they have an ethical obligation to use courtesy and tact in doing so. |
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| When can clients terminate a VCPR? |
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| The coice of treatments or animal care should not be influenced by condiserations other than the needs of what??? |
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| The patient, the welfare of the client and the safety of the public. |
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| Veterinarians should not allow their medical judgement to be influenced by agreements by which they stand to profit through what? |
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| referring clients to other providers of services or products. |
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| The medical judgements of veterinarians should not be influenced by what? |
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| Contracts or agreements made by their associations or societies. |
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| Who as control over the contents and speakers when conferences, meetings, or lectrues are sponsered by outside entities? |
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| The organziation that presents the program not the funding sponser. |
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| Veterinarians should disclose to clients potential what? |
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| Who is responsible for choosing the treatment regimens for patients? |
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| The attending veterinarian. |
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| Is it unethical for veterinarians to prescribe or dispense prescription products in the absence of a VCPR? |
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| Is it unethical for veterinarians to prescribe or dispense prescription products in the presence of a VCPR? |
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| Is it unethical for veterinatians to promote, sell, prescribe, dispense, or use secret remedies or any other product for which they do not know the ingredient formula? |
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| Is it unethical for veterinarians to use or permit the use of their names, signatures or professional status in connection with the resale of ethicla products in a manner which violates those directions or conditions specified by the manufacturer to ensure the safe and efficacious use of the product? |
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| If the patient's health is dependent upon correction of such genetic defects is it ethical to keep it capable of reproduction? |
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| NO it has to be rendered incapable of reproduction. |
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| What are an integral part of veterinary care which they must comply with the standards established by state and federal law? |
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| Veterinary medical records. |
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| Whos property are the mdicial records? |
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| The property of the practice and the practice owner. |
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| The information within veterinary medicial records is considered what? |
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| Priviledged and confidential. MUST NOT be relaesed except by court order or consent of the owner of the patient. |
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| Veterinarians are obligated to proved copies or summeries of what when requested by the client? |
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| Medical records with a written release to document that request. |
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| Is it unethical for a veterinarian to remove, copy, or use the medical records or any part of any record? |
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| YES it must be confidential. |
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| Is it unethical for veterinarians to engage in fee-splitting? |
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| YES fee-splitting is bad. |
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| A payment by a referral veterinarian of part of their fee to the attending veterinarian who has not rendered professional services. |
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| Under the defintion of fee-spliting does this include the use of consultants, laboratory services and online pharmacies? |
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| NO it does not include them. |
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| Is it ethical for a group or assocation of veterinarians to take any action which coerces, pressures, or achieves agreement among veterinarians to conform to a fee schedule or fixed fees? |
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| Is advertising by veterinarians ethical? When if so? |
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| Yes when there are no false, deceptive, or misleading statements or claims. |
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| Is it ethical for veterinarians to permit the use of their names by commercial enterprises so that the they can adevertise under veterinary supervision, only if they provide such supervisioN? |
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