VI AAEP News July 2024
ASSOCIATION Digital edition of EVE now available by article on AAEP’s website
If your Equine Veterinary Education readership habits gravitate toward individual articles of interest instead of the entire journal each month, you will want to check out the digital edition of EVE available on the AAEP’s website.
Beginning with the May issue, website users may now access individual article PDFs by clicking the relevant headline link on the landing page for each edition of the journal. The option to download the entire issue remains available.
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“Making each month’s issue of EVE accessible by individual article on the website adds a layer of convenience for those who may prefer to consume only the specific clinical information that is applicable to their practice,” said AAEP Publications Coordinator John Cooney. “Meanwhile, those who enjoy the journal from cover to cover can still download the entire issue.”
As a reminder, the digital edition of EVE is generally available before the print edition drops in the mail. The digital edition can be found on the AAEP website at https://
tinyurl.com/2sbkzmhs. The journal is also accessible in its entirety through the AAEP On-the-Go app. You can download the free app by searching for it at your app store.
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in this issue: From the president: Your voice matters
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ETHICS Ethics Case: Health certificate
As an educational resource for members, the AAEP’s Professional Conduct and Ethics Committee has compiled synopses of real-life ethical situations and issues addressed by the committee in recent years. A different matter will be presented each month, with names omitted to protect the privacy of those involved.
Dr. Q has been working for a large sport horse practice for three years. The practice is located very close to a large complex of showgrounds, and members of the practice rotate through the on-call schedule to perform attending duties at the show grounds. Dr. Q was paged by the in-gate personnel about an owner trying to enter their horse onto the show grounds without a health certificate. The owners, who are trailering the horse, live four hours away from any veterinarian with no veterinarian available to perform a proper health certificate prior to shipping to the horse show. The owners would like permission to enter the grounds and then have someone from the practice perform an exam and write a health certificate.
Health certificates are such an interesting topic in equine practice. The bottom line is that they are a federal require- ment, and they are the best option as far as attempting to protect groups of horses in temporary housing situations without daily veterinarian supervision. Arguably, if a health certificate is valid for 30 days, much can happen in a horse’s environment and body in that period of time, invalidating the health exam over much of the time period that it “covers.” With this in mind, it is easy for a veteri-
narian to rationalize away the regulatory reasons for performing these exams.
One notable reason for never compromising on performing health certificates is that a veterinarian may lose their license if found forging or representing a horse for which they have not performed an exam. It is important for veterinarians to never allow for exceptions to these rules just to please a client or to make an impossible situation possible. Horses are a first-world luxury, and foregoing a proper health inspection potential- ly compromises the health (and financial investment) of other horses at a venue, as well as the health of the traveling horse. Under no circumstance is there justifica- tion for misrepresenting a health certificate. Lack of planning on the part of an owner should not constitute an emergency of this sort for any veterinarian.
Dr. Q radios the front gate and informs the horse owners that they will have to wait with their horse in their trailer until Dr. Q or a member of the on-call veterinary team has an opportunity to exit the grounds to perform a health certificate on the horse in question. At most venues, a horse without proper documentation for entry—a negative Coggins test and current health certificate—will be denied entry until proper veterinarian documentation is obtained.
EQUINE VETERINARY EDUCATION/American Edition
Volume 36 Number 6
June 2024
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