Welcome to the OrthoVetSuperSite February 2010 Edition.

I’s time to renew your ESVOT membership for 2010 to maintain the benefits of being ESVOT member, but for unwanted technical reasons in internet banking we must wait few weeks more. You will receive a further Newsletter shortly.

To avoid communication and payments problems, simultaneous VCOT journals and ESVOT renewals are no more possible. We will collect the ESVOT subscriptions only.

Subscriptions to VCOT for 2010 must be sent directly to the VCOT Publisher, Schattauer Cornelia.Kluge@Schattauer.de

2010 will be a great year for ESVOT because ESVOT, in collaboration with VOS, will host the World Veterinary Orthopaedic Congress, held every 4 years in the world and every eight years in Europe. Please read the interview to the Congress Chairman, John Houlton and have a look at the preliminary program at www.wvoc2010.eu

Becoming or renewing ESVOT membership for 2010 you will:

• have full access to www.orthovetsupersite.org
• receive its monthly newsletter
• be informed in advance on ESVOT activities (Courses, Congresses, Workshops)
• get a reduced registration rate to all ESVOT activities
• get a reduced registration rate to the World Veterinary Orthopaedic Congress in Bologna, September 15-18, 2010
• be informed in advance on all the educational opportunities in the world concerning veterinary orthopaedics
• get a reduced subscription rate to VCOT
• be part of the world wide ESVOT family

VOS members, being US and Canada citizens, have the same benefits of ESVOT members, just renewing VOS membership for 2010.

ACVS and ECVS residents too can get the same benefits of ESVOT members for the time of their residency.

OrthoVetSuperSite features:

• The site is updated every month, bringing the latest orthopaedic news online.
• A VCOT full paper from each new issue, for free download by the site registered users.
• ESVOT Proceedings (2000 - 2002 - 2004 - 2006 - 2008)
• VOS Proceedings (2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009)
• The last updated abstracts can be easily seen in a dedicated section and abstract search con be done by months and years of publication.
• Monthly abstracts concerning veterinary orthopaedics and traumatology, published in different journals, collected from the web (journal sites, Congress Proceedings, pubmed, etc.). The Top Veterinary Journals regularly reviewed are: AJVR - American Journal of Veterinary Research, Canadian Veterinary Journal, Compendium of Clinical Practice, EVE - Equine Veterinary Education, EVJ - Equine Veterinary Journal, JAAHA - Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, AVMA - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, JSAP - Journal of Small Animal Practice, VCOT - Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, VECCS - Journal of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, Veterinary Anesthesia/Analgesia, Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound, Veterinary Record, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Clinics of North America.
• Radiology case of the month by Joe P. Morgan, for Large Animal and Small Animal Interviews by Geoff Sumner-Smith: interviews of international Authors discussing new studies, treatments, new implants & instruments, etc.
• Meetings & Courses Agenda: an updated list of Meetings and Courses in the world concerning veterinary orthopaedics is monthly updated, with links to each organizing body.
• Books: new books in veterinary orthopaedics will be announced with the front page picture, a short presentation provided by the publisher and the link for best web selling.
• Comparative orthopaedics: news and Meetings in human orthopaedics, selected from the human medical websites.
• Advertisements from Companies announcing new instruments, implants, techniques, products.

Hoping you will enjoy ESVOT membership, I wish you a pleasant and fruitful navigation

Best regards

Aldo Vezzoni, Med. Vet, Dipl. ECVS OVSS Editor, ESVOT Past President