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Susan,

Great idea re getting the basic education talk written up.
Will work with Genie to make sure this gets done.

Stagg

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:27:32 -0700
 "Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, this by all means doesn't even start to solve the 
> issue of disseminating
> more education to the newbies-and-not-newbies, but I 
> figure, start at home
> and go from there.  So here's my two-cents effort.
>
> I just got an okay from AERC and the convention committee 
> to add an extra
> seminar at the Reno convention.  I'm already scheduled to 
> do a talk on how
> to address specific problems like tying up, thumps, etc. 
> But, it's occurred
> to me more than once that we ALL can get so caught up in 
> the minutiae of
> things (including my personal soapbox, nutrition), that 
> we forget the
> basics.  And if we already know the basics, well, review 
> never hurts.
>
> So, we don't know the scheduling yet, but I'm going to do 
> an additional
> lecture this year aimed at the bare bones basic stuff.  A 
> lot of very basic
> nutrition, but I'm also going to thump on a few 
> physiology issues like what
> every rider should understand about dehydration, tissue 
> recovery, some basic
> energetics, heat dissipation issues, things like that. 
> Obviously, you won't
> catch me talking about the things outside my ken, like 
> rider strategy or How
> To Condition For Biltmore or whatever, but just the stuff 
> I'm pretty
> comfortable with.
>
> I know not everyone is able to get to convention.  What I 
> would like to ask
> is whether there is someone that is planning to attend, 
> that has a strong
> background in technical writing, that would volunteer to 
> write up a one page
> summary of the information to put onto the AERC website, 
> EN, make available
> to ride managers, hand out at clinics, or whatever.  By 
> all means, whatever
> I have to say is not the final word on anything, but it's 
> a lot better than
> ZERO and it's at least a start.
>
> So, lemme know and maybe we can start a more formal 
> program of publishing
> lecture notes for long-distance education purposes, eh?
>
> Susan Garlinghouse DVM
>
>
>
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