Vetstream unveils ‘My Notes’ Feature for Vetlexicon:

Empowering subscribers to have their own digital notebook and enabling “reflective learning”.

Vetlexicon, the leading online resource for veterinary professionals, proudly announces the launch of its newest feature, ‘My Notes’ which comes included in a Vetlexicon subscription. This innovative feature empowers subscribers to record personal notes, fosters reflective learning and seamlessly enables them to provide proof of reflective learning to regulators such as the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the UK.

‘My Notes’ revolutionises the learning experience within Vetlexicon, allowing users to customise their learning journey like never before. With this feature, veterinary professionals can:

• Create Personalised Notes: Subscribers can record their insights, observations and key takeaways from a particular case, course or webinar, directly within the Vetlexicon platform. Covering clinical case notes, research findings, and/or personal reflections, ‘My Notes’ enables users to tailor their Vetlexicon

experience to their individual needs and interests and store them in their personal account profile.

These could be used to store details that are less easy to recall and because Vetlexicon is optimised for smartphones, these personal notes can be entered and accessed from anywhere at any time; in between consultations, when offsite or during discussions with colleagues.

Notes from lectures attended at a conference could be added at the time of the lecture and then be available anytime / anywhere.

Students can use this feature to record the details of particular cases and then transfer them into their case reports. Because Vetlexicon is designed to support veterinarians and nurses/technicians, all clinical team members can benefit from using ‘My Notes’.

Each ‘My Notes’ has three fields to record reflections:

1. How did this CPD/CE relate to your learning objectives and plan?
2. What are the key things you learned?
3. What impact has the CPD/CE undertaken had on you as a professional or in your role?

The tool also has a field that is dedicated to case identifiers, so that subscribers can record the name or case number to help recall information about a particular patient with relevant clinical information about their diagnosis, co-existing morbidities, medication or surgical technique etc. to enable recollection about interesting or challenging cases.

• Track CPD/CE Progress: By recording learning activities and reflections using the three specific questions that are frequently used to encourage reflection, users can effortlessly document their professional development journey and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
  
  
• Users select the ‘My Notes’ icon in the header of each article and can then add their notes and reflections. Once completed the My Notes file can be saved and will be available subsequently via the personal account area with a time and date as to when this was last modified.
  
  
• ‘My Notes’ also allows users to record their notes in their preferred language.
• The ability to save notes as a PDF, producing a document allows users to upload their work to their CPD/CE regulator to confirm what information they have benefited from, which can then be uploaded to the CPD regulator’s app (such as the RCVS 1CPD), or website.
  
  
• Because any stored ‘My Notes’ are associated with an individual user, an active subscriber can access these personal notes for the rest of their working career, even if they move practices.
  
  
• As a built-in service, this new feature is available across the main Vetlexicon article templates of; Disease, Medication, Technique, etc and across all seven Vetlexicon species.

Vetsteam’s CEO, Dr Mark Johnston MRCVS said,

“We are particularly pleased to provide this new feature as it should enable subscribers to have their own digital notebook both now, and in the future, as they can take their ‘My Notes’ with them wherever they work. All ‘My Notes’ tools have the key three fields for guided reflective learning, as is now required by the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for vets and nurses in the recording of their CPD”.

“We also wanted to support our subscribers whose preferred language may not be English, and so users can add their clinical notes in their choice of language.”

Subscribers can generate a PDF version of each ‘My Notes’ for uploading to the CPD/CE regulator of different countries which will also show the date that they were last modified.

Accessible via the Vetlexicon website, ‘My Notes’ is available as part of a subscription at no additional cost.

A how-to-use ‘My Notes’ video is available via https://youtu.be/JQIibi4huBE

For more information about Vetlexicon and to see its new ‘My Notes’ feature, visit www.vetlexicon.com