Wellbeing & Lifestyle

Retirement is not the end. Here are a few tips to help you live your best life right now, free of regrets.

The latest roundup from dvm360.com for a few of the latest veterinary podcasts available the past few weeks.

Retired vet shares his thoughts on transitioning out of veterinary medicine and explains why reinventing your identity is so important.

Some things in life you dont control. One thing in your control that might help is your own thinking. Check out these proven ways we veterinary professionals can help manage job burnout and compassion fatigue.

How much is too much when asking about a troubled doctors personal problems? And what can a practice owner do to help? This what if? scenario uncovers big questions for veterinary professionals.

Unless your upbringing or work experience presented an example of how to set healthy boundaries, you may not know how to establish and maintain them. When you combine the lack of boundaries with your work as a veterinary professional in a caretaker role, this can create negative emotions. Lets diagnose and treat.

What do woodworking, indoor gardening, painting and cake decorating have in common? Theyre the avocations of a few of the 2019 ACVC speakers. Get to know seven more of our conference lecturers here.

Which Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference speaker started dancing ballet three years ago? Whose pets made the cover of JAVMA? And who has an obsessive relationship with spray cheese? Read on for these answers and many more interesting tidbits about this years speakers.

Hungry for podcasts for veterinarians, team members and the pet owners they serve? Then this list is for you. Subscribe now (theyre all free).

Veterinary professionals: Once you understand how and why trauma affects the body, you can reverse its negative effects. Read on to learn how your brain and body change in response to traumatic stress.

Heres an overview of what psychology experts say constitutes trauma, plus some examples that place these definitions firmly in the world of veterinary professionals.

When were caught between the family we love and the veterinary career we cherish, our fears and guilt can overwhelm us. Stop beating up on yourself, veterinarian moms.

A prolapsed box turtle rectum pushed me to make the typical veterinarian choice: Get some time off or be the leader a freaked-out team member needed in the moment.

In veterinary medicine, there exists a culture of shame surrounding surgical error. Here, one DVM shares her experience with mental and emotional trauma during surgery and offers 7 steps to help veterinarians rewire their brains after a traumatic event in practice.

She started a popular walk-in event at her veterinary hospital, but this 2019 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year finalist saw the toll it was taking.

In a session focused on small, practical changes veterinary technicians can make in their thinking and habits to prevent compassion fatigue or burnout, Fetch dvm360 conference speaker Kristina Guldbrand, ACC, BS, CVT, CSP, offered more than a dozen suggestions. Here are our three favorites.

The good, the bad and the awesome lessons one veterinarian learned as a new practice owner.

New campaign to help colleagues assess, support, know is designed specifically for veterinarians and team members; company will offer training to entire profession by January 2020.

One recent study explores the effect of dysfunctional workplaces on veterinary team members, while another focused on the secondary stress involved in helping stressed pet owners, something called burden transfer."

I would have never dreamed of a daytime sleep habit, but doctors orders made me a believer.

Initial findings from a survey reveal that mental wellbeing may affect veterinary professionals on a global level, according to the World Small Animal Veterinary Associations new Professional Wellbeing Group.

It serves an important purpose, but there are other things you can do to help your veterinary colleague who's considering suicide. Here are some ways to help.

Not enough sleep, not enough exercise, not enough time. Is your job in veterinary practice to blameand can you fix it?

As part of short-term disability coverage, cost was unsustainable at the price, reports veterinary insurance expert.

Work and life inform veterinary surgeon Nick Trouts successful side gig: best-selling novelist.

As a performance animal veterinarian, Ive learned that if you get thrown from a bull, you have to get up and get back onunless that bull decides to land on you. Then you have to roll around and scream in pain.

Making access to dangerous drugs a little more difficult is a short-term, but important, solution in preventing suicides in the veterinary profession.

Veterinarians and veterinary students on Facebook told us long hours were a given to get into the profession. But are they good for practitioners, patients and the learning process?