Career Development

Now a feature for the Fetch exhibit hall, the Veterinary Confessionals Project is expanding into other avenues to bring the profession together.

Tools, tips and plans to inspire you to buy a veterinary practice, help you sell a practice or get your deal with the right buyer and sell through.

If youre an associate veterinarian, your new employment contract is worth a careful readso dont let the transition team pressure you into a quick turnaround.

Veterinary practice managers and team members also benefit from more friendly, more informative referrals to and from emergency and specialists and the general practitioners who manage patients through their lives. Compassion-First Pet Hospitals hired liaisons and built a process to inform referring general practice veterinarians when patients visit, how they're doing and what happened.

In the year 2020 ... what manager will you be? They might look similar, but your flavor of veterinary practice manager personality and approach to big change could make a big difference.

The deck is stacked with these Fetch speakers, who have found a way to work in the oh-so-scandalous card game into their sessions.

Without Dr. Codger breathing down her neck, Dr. Greenskin is able to grow her confidencebut can she convince her boss that they need to grow their veterinary team?

If you struggle to mentally distance yourself from your veterinary patients and coworkerseven when theyre miles away and youre off the clockread these tips and prepare to disengage.

If the daily demands of veterinary practice management are causing you to fall behind in employee reviews, try this trick to be a more supportiveand efficientmanager.

Be inspired by these top-notch, top 10 veterinary practice manager finalists.

Sometimes the practice owner is the last to know. Watch for these flashing signs of warning to get ahead of the curve.

If you take emotional responsibility for everyone else's problems, putting their monkeys on your back and on your mind, you find yourself home at the end of every day in veterinary practice with no room for your own needs.

My Q&A with CVC educator Dr. Betsy Charles makes me optimistic that veterinary hospital teams can be nicer, more resilient, more successful and longer-lived than ever before.

CVPMs need 48 hours of practice management CE every two years. We've got you covered at CVC. Here's an example of how you could blow your mind with knowledge (and fulfill your requirements) at a CVC near you.

Paying your bills and chipping away at your student loans as a veterinary associate? These strategies can help you build your incomeand practice top-notch medicine.

Afraid of what pet owners and practitioners will miss without physical exams, this veterinarian warns colleagues they should be the ones shaping policy for the future of telemedicine.

A nondisparagement clause might keep that toxic team member you fired from badmouthing your veterinary practice all over social mediaif its legally enforceable.

Dr. Ernie Ward shares his thoughts on how to achieve happiness and success and reveals how he can still be crazy about veterinary medicine after all these years.

You're there for managing, not parenting, says Mark Opperman, CVPM.

An abrasive senior technician is leaving distressed team members and neglected patients in her domineering wake. Dr. Greenskin thinks that if she owned the hospital, she wouldnt put up with such behaviorwould she?

We go deep with Dr. Roark on such topics as social media as a "relationship accelerator," that scary E-word (entrepreneurship) and new graduates coming into there own as business people.

You're not alone in wondering. CVC educator Dr. Dave Nicol takes on imposter syndrome.

I helped my overworked, stressed-out, freaking-out self by creating a support group online for veterinarians and veterinary team members who feel the same way.

Over and over again, we veterinarians hear it from our clients: Our pets die better than we do. In many cases, theyre right.

When life in veterinary medicine gives you lemons, do you make lemonade ... or you get squished? Find out more about how you see the world with this quick quiz.

Believing you have some control over the events in your life is crucial to happiness and could make a huge difference in your personal life and veterinary career.

People with an internal "locus of control"who believe that they have control over their destinies and that their actions matterare happier and healthier. But making changes in your life isn't as easy for everybody, and we need to acknowledge that more than we do.

Do you pull the strings in your life and career? Or do you think luck, fate and other people are the deciding factor in your happiness and success?

We selected confessions from the Vet Confessionals Project that reflect the feelings of control (or lack thereof) that plague the profession.