Career Development

Denise Tumblin, Marianne Mallonee, and Monica Dixon Perry take audience questions.

Why this? Why now? It's the most common complaint of managers in veterinary medicine.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal law that regulates minimum wage, overtime pay, hourly wage vs. salary, the employment of minors and many other employment-related issues.

The syndrome of toxic work overtakes you when what's happening at work causes protracted bouts of distress, culminating in emotional suffering or physical symptoms and heightened by the perceived inability to stop the pain and move on to find or create a reward situation.

The current state of the workforce is that there is a shortage of skilled workers and in the veterinary industry we are experiencing this shortage with a great intensity.

The large animal veterinary practitioner is faced with a number of unique legal considerations in the daily discharge of his or her professional duties.

The companion animal veterinary practitioner is faced with a number of unique legal considerations in the daily discharge of his or her professional duties.

Ready to run more tests on your patients? Veterinary Economics Editorial Advisory Board member Dr. Fred Metzger, DABVP, owner of Metzger Animal Hospital in State College, Pa., has four tips to put your in-house lab or reference lab to work for you:

This map shows how many pets per small animal practitioner live in each state.

Veterinarians' salaries continue to rank near the low end of those within the health-care field, but DVMs job security and job-growth prospects are among the best, according to the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Here are the top 10 toughest parts of your job, in order, with advice for solving them from our Editorial Advisory Board.

More clients are complaining about their veterinary care because they expect more of you.

Owners and associates aren't on the same wavelength when it comes to team education. What's causing the divide?

It's hard to initiate task-sharing. But once you do, you'll never go back.

Technicians help you care for patients, but they could do more-if you'd let them.

Maintaining balance in your life can be challenging with today's frenetic pace, but it's a goal well worth pursuing. Here's a way to do it.

Feline healthcare is in crisis stage, says CATalyst's director.

Lakewood, Colo. - Associate veterinarians are jumping jobs faster than the average American worker, according to a new study, and salaries that don't keep pace with inflation could be partly to blame.

Here's how to help associates shine.

Ever feel like you're talking to a wall? Can't understand your boss's way of thinking? What is it with kids these days? Before you get frustrated, check out how the generations in today's workforce are different.

Keep these three things in mind to help stay complaint-free.

Managers: Take responsibility and ask your team to do the same.

Owners who seek to avoid conflict by meeting challenges head-on actually become part of the problem.

The stage was all mine. With trembling hands, I went to work. ... As sheer dumb luck would have it, the surgery went perfectly.

The demands upon us continue to increase with each advance in technological sophistication.

I will be efficient. I will get along with my staff. I will read and study these mantras.

Surf the Web for valuable resources to help you do your job better.

The day-to-day tasks and surprises of an equine practitioner can be stressful to even the most level-headed person.

Publicly document all those freebies.

Men use banter, joking, and playful put downs to establish authority. Women try to maintain an appearance of equality, downplaying their own authority while taking the other person's reactions into account. These rituals play out with both positive and negative outcomes for veterinarians.