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Sofie Resources

Sofie, your Virtual DVM Assistant provides veterinarians with instant access to the most current, trusted, and credible veterinary medical information. Sofie uses IBM Watson Technology® to search its vast knowledge base of over 40,000 pages from the top veterinary textbooks, journals, and conference proceedings to deliver lightning-fast clinical answers from any internet-enabled device.

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Textbooks

Applied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, 1^st (Fascetti, Delaney; Wiley 2012)
Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Avian, 1st ed.(Graham; Wiley 2016)
Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline, 7th(Tilley, Smith; Wiley 2021)
Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Small Mammal, 2nd ed. (Oglesbee; Wiley 2011)
Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Dogs and Cats, 4th ed.(Cohn, Côté; Elsevier 2020)
Emergency Procedures for the Small Animal Veterinarian, 3rd ed. (Plunkett; Elsevier 2013)
Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders in Small Animal Practice, 4th ed.(DiBartola; Elsevier 2012)
Mader’s Reptile and Amphibian Medicine and Surgery, 3rd ed. (Divers, Stahl; Elsevier 2019)
Manual of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, 2nd ed.(Macintire, Drobatz, Haskins, Saxon; Wiley 2012)
Muller and Kirk’s Small Animal Dermatology, 7th ed.(Miller, Griffin, Campbell; Elsevier 2013)
Nutritional Management of Hospitalized Small Animals, 1^st (Chan; Wiley 2015)
Papich Handbook of Veterinary Drugs: Small and Large Animals, 5th ed.(Papich; Elsevier 2021)
Slatter’s Fundamentals of Veterinary Ophthalmology, 6th ed.(Maggs, Miller, Ofri; Elsevier 2016)*

Small Animal Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods, 5th ed.(Willard, Tvedten; Elsevier 2012)
Small Animal Dermatology: A Color Atlas and Therapeutic Guide, 4th ed.(Hnilica, Patterson; Elsevier 2017)
Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, 2nd ed.(Silverstein, Hopper; Elsevier 2015)
Small Animal Internal Medicine, 6th ed.(Nelson, Couto; Elsevier 2019)
Small Animal Medical Differential Diagnosis, 3rd ed.(Thompson; Elsevier 2018)
Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery, 1st ed.(Monnet; Wiley 2013)
Small Animal Surgery, 5th ed.(Fossum; Elsevier 2019)
Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: Diseases of the Dog and Cat, Vol. 1 and 2, 8th ed.(Ettinger, Feldman; Elsevier 2017)
The ABCDs of Small Animal Cardiology, 1st ed.(Gordon, Amara; LifeLearn 2013)
Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Manual, 3rd ed.(Matthews; LifeLearn 2017)
Veterinary Hematology and Clinical Chemistry, 3rd ed.(Thrall, Weiser, Allison, Campbell; Wiley 2022)
Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 10th ed.(Riviere, Papich; Blackwell 2018)*
Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal, 2-volume set, 2nd ed.(Johnston, Tobias; Elsevier 2017)
Withrow and Macewen’s Small Animal Clinical Oncology, 6th ed.(Vail, Thamm, Liptak; Elsevier 2013)