Career Development

Your own animals at home can be a tremendous support in so many ways to make sure you stay happy and healthy in your veterinary career. Just dont ignore the warning signs of burnout if you see them.

Find out the most common violations cited in an OSHA safety inspection

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.

Do the professions biggest problems stem from stress?

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

Everyones telling us about veterinary professionals mental health problems. But its not just clients and tough cases and money problems. Its us hurting each other too.

When privilege is revealed and corrected, it feels like marginalization. Guess what: Its not. Heres what diversity and inclusion actually looks like in veterinary medicine in 2019.

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.

Even the loner Batman joined the Justice League for the good of all. Heres how this 2019 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year finalist inspired her veterinary practice team to be all for one and one for all.

Consultant Danielle Lambert has a mission for you, bold women of veterinary medicine.

This 2019 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year finalist doesnt think so. Shes seen a healthy veterinary practice culture develop because of a bigger leadership team and open communication.

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.

A cat owner really laid into a veterinary receptionist, so this 2019 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year finalist modeled calm listening and client education for the startled CSR.

Here are the details that veterinary hospital groups nationwide shared with us on number of hospitals, company details and what theyre looking for in clinics to buy these days.

Congratulations, associate veterinarian! Youve been hired to fill a position. Now, ask yourself: Who do you want to be? Filling a slot or filling your practice with new ideas and enthusiasm?

Whether youre a client service representative or a multi-hospital veterinary practice owner, showing appreciation in the right ways to the people who deserve it is a profoundly powerful life skill. Start learning it here.

How are veterinarians supposed to make a change for wildlife conservation if theyre not taught? This is the question, Fabiola Quesada, DVM, MsD, is hoping to answer.

Stephen Cital discusses diversity issues within veterinary medicine and shares a few strategies to help break these barriers.

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.

The cannabidiol (CBD) conversation is in full swing in veterinary practices across the country, and its time for veterinarians to chime in.

A veterinary practice with skilled veterinary technicians fully using their skills is a dynamo to see in action. Get your own dynamo up and running with these tips.

When a veterinary client asks a doctor to sign off on a therapy dog certificate, should he push back if he thinks its fraud?

Back in May 2019, CNN ran an article that quickly went viral. When we shared it on the dvm360 Facebook page, readers had a lot to say.

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

For veterinary professionals, compassion fatigue, burnout and depression often flow from a problem far upstreampsychological trauma. And most of us dont even realize were suffering.

Yes, you read that right. This future exotic animal veterinarian was accepted into veterinary school after her junior year in undergrad. She details how it happened and offers tips to anyone brave enough to go for it in the future.

Pets, emotional support animals (ESAs) and service animals have very different rights and responsibilities in veterinary clients lives. Take advantage of your opportunities to gently but firmly educate pet owners on what designations are appropriate for which animals and why its important not to blur the lines between them.

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.