Career Development

Revisit the status quo and get your practice procedures dialed in.

Sure, youve given yourself expectations and goals for the new year, but how many of those apply to your veterinary practice? Here are a few suggestions to chew on.

Three veterinary professional share their stories of what it was like to emerge from one stage of a career to the next: the fears, the joysand the complete surprises.

Four veterinarians share stories of facing big change in their lives: divorce, death, illness, work stress. Find out how they braced themselves against harsh conditions in their personal lives.

Dealing with co-workers can be as stressful as handling patients, says this vet tech.

Dr. Dave Nicol says your quality of life is being compromised.

A new job. A new boss. A new baby or a divorce. When the winds of change blow through your life, be prepared with tools to help you cope with all of your transitionsin the veterinary practice and in your personal life.

Are you a high-flying veterinarian by day and a reluctant veterinary practice manager by night? I dont want to take the wind out of your cape, but your neglected alter ego may need a boost.

Do employee reviews fill you with dread due to anxiety over difficult conversations, losing valuable work time and having to rely on your struggling memory? Dont dig in your heels. Proper preparation can make the task easier and your feedback more valuable.

If you can answer affirmatively to all 10 questions, you just might be perfect. If not, we have some reading suggestions that can help you make some valuable tweaks to your life and your veterinary clinic.

Deciding to not offer declaws anymore was only the first step. The next steps involved training our team and updating our materials. Heres how we did it.

To keep peace in a clients home, can a veterinarian and veterinary team massage the truth about what really happened to a pet? Euthanasia, accidents and marijuana play big parts in this months ethical dilemma.

Dr. Andy Roark and his trusty sidekick Meg Pierson walk us through why change is difficult and how to handle it. Also side-swoop bangs and Bowie. Ehh ... just watch the video.

Sure, you could keep things the same foreverand become irrelevant to your clients and patients.

The veterinary super analyst takes us through preventive care, corporate takeovers, industry burnout and back again in dvm360's podcast.

Veterinary medicine isn't all about science, diagnosis and treatment. Some of your day is taken up with the soft skills. Find out which nonclinical articles your peers loved the most this year in 2017 and resolve to try out some of these tricks in 2018.

Fetch dvm360 conference educator Dr. Jonathan Bloom shares his 3 F philosophy that helps him enjoy life to the fullestboth at home and in his veterinary practice.

Hey there. New here? Whether youve worked at a veterinary practice for 10 minutes or 10 years, a new position means its time to grow.

What did Fetch dvm360 attendees in San Diego learn from playing the new game Veterinarians Against Insanity?

Veterinary management consultant Bash Halow held a roundtable with practice managers and asked them what theyd wished theyd known before stepping into their roles.

OKyou can remove the hard hat now, but dont get too relaxed. More change may be ahead.

As practice manager, I could see that both interdepartmental interaction and veterinary client marketing were suffering. Social media to the rescue!

Creating a working partnership with a generalist can open the door to a career path you may not have considered.

That's a personal question: Can you make a plan and manage the headaches that come with more personnel and costs?

Their student debt is frightening. The generation's urge to own is lightening. Find out from two young veterinary practice owners why they did it, how they did it, and what their advice is for their generational cohort.

Veterinary-technician-turned-hospital-manager Danielle Russ sorts fact from fiction to explain what constructive criticism is and how to use it.