Career Development

We looked at the evidence in our own practice and took a whole-team (and client-education) approach to making the big change to stop performing declaws.

Meditation, yoga, self-care. It's about keeping yourself together so you can give your best to patients.

Youre not "in it for the money" in veterinary medicine, but neither can you ignore it. This year, make a New Year's resolution (or two or three) to better manage your personal accounts, your career and your practice finances this year.

I got sick after decades of taking radiographs as a veterinary technician. Learn from my mistakes. Protect yourself.

Pay attention to the needs of your veterinary hospital's receptionists. They do a terrific job every day to keep problems in the front from affecting the veterinarians in the back.

Before you judge your colleagues, take a long, hard look at our survey data on the educational debt they carry and why it might be limiting their choices ... and, overall, bumming them out.

The commoditization of the DVM may be making this dream less of a reality for many entrepreneurial hopefuls.

This is what can happen when past employers arent honest about possible new veterinary hospital hires.

Get an hour of CE credit as you explore learn the first steps to curbing debts control over your life so it doesnt curb your enthusiasm for this amazing profession.

It keeps you awake at night. It overshadows every life decision. It may even make you question your career choice. But you can be free of the soul-sucking burden of your veterinary student debtas long as you have the right information and the right plan.

As more practices are acquired by larger companies, are veterinary consolidators undertaking "legal" restraint of trade? Let's roll the dice and find out.

Foster rivalries (and, yes, camaraderie) on your crew.

Goals in veterinary practice management are great, but they dont mean much if we dont execute a plan to achieve them.

Five hard truths that veterinary technicians should tell veterinarians about otitis visits. (And if your vet techs arent, maybe they should be.)

Stress on the job can be good and healthy. It means you care about your patients and clients in veterinary practice, and it can engage you in the moment to do your best work. But stress can also get out of control, harming your emotional wellbeing and physical body. Here are tips to manage your own stress and share that knowledge with your whole team.

Wheres the jumping off point for jumping into veterinary team building activities? Here are a few of my favorite resources.

A veterinarian recommending only natural flea and tick prevention is reported to her state board. Will her approach be deemed negligent or merely incomplete?

Veterinarians and business partners Dani McVety and Mary Gardner couldnt be more different. And yet theyre a perfect example of how wildly different personalities can work side by side in the pursuit of better care for pets.

Dont judge potential veterinary hires based on application alone. Our management expert Katie Adams, CVPM, says your impression during the in-person interview matters more.

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Many veterinary professionals fear self-care. I saw, firsthand, at a Fetch dvm360 conference how those who tried yoga or meditation seemed to smile a little easier and to share a little more with their peers.

Fetch speaker weighs in on new ways of learning and new ways of teaching.

These 10 top-notch finalists are pros at tackling veterinary practice problems. How will they inspire you?

Your ship-er, practice-is run with all types of personalities from different worlds-baby boomers, Generation X'ers and millennials. They can all work together to boldly care for a pet as no pet has been before.

When the threat of a corporation buying the practice from Dr. Codger is impending, will Dr. Greenskin fish or cut bait?

Concrete results speak to the power of positive training in the veterinary hospital.

Cyberattacks are a form of psychological violence that cause serious damage to organizations and individuals. Address cyberbullying head on or risk disastrous impact on your veterinary staff and business.

When veterinary clients and internet trolls gang up on private practitioners, the effects can hurt business, harm reputations and damage psyches of those on the receiving end of cyberbullying. In this series, experts share tools and plans to help avoid internet rampages, deal with them when they crop up, and help make veterinarians and veterinary team members more resilient when people go on the verbal attack.