Career Development

Veterinary conference attendees dug down deep to explore skills, desires and personality to navigate the bumpy path to veterinary clinic ownership.

Heres how high-flying members of the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association handle dividing clinic tasks with their bosses.

Embracing risk, anticipating change among Apple co-founders guiding principles.

Rewards for referrals raise questions about kickbacks.

Our brains move fast! Slow down before you shell out.

If you or someone you love or work with seem down, dont dismiss that. Everyone in veterinary medicine can help as holiday stress and high expectations buffet the vulnerable: Just talk and listen.

This reader was moved by a colleague's suicide to share his emotional coping mechanisms for veterinary students, associates and long-time DVMs.

If you have to ask, associate, the answer is "no." Just kidding. Take this quiz.

If you're sick of paying more and getting less, its time to put your fear aside and ask for what you want.

Fishing for the perfect position? Recruiters pose an interesting possibility for job-seeking team members looking for the right practice.

Video isn't "big brother"it's a viable teaching tool.

Don't wait until January to decide on the ways you want your practice to shine in 2015.

Test yourself: Consider these common insurance myths and facts and learn how to make pet insurance work for you and for pet owners.

Test yourself: Consider these common insurance myths and facts and learn how to make pet insurance work for you and for pet owners.

Who makes the top brass stop and take notice? You do.

The truth is, veterinary clients can be a little inconsiderate.

To take the pulse of the relationship between private practice veterinarians and sheltersa word were using broadly to include rescue groups, foster organizations, municipal agencies and moredvm360 surveyed both groups. Heres where things stand.

This dvm360 Leadership Challenge helps private practices work with, not against, shelters and rescue groups in the community.

Firstline asked team members to name their biggest frustrations in practice. Heres a sample of their answersin their own wordsand tools to boost morale and efficiency.

What youd ask and what youd never think to ask a leading voice of veterinary medicine. Join us for the first monthly installment of Fingerprints, a series of Q&As with important veterinary luminaries who are leaving their unique imprint on our industry.

Heres what I wish everyone at veterinary practices knew about exotics veterinarians.

This practice owner puts the kibosh on freebies to his veterinary team. Is that fair?

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Make sure you know what you're gettingand what you aren'twhen you build a website.

Although associate veterinarians may not manage or own the practice, Denise Tumblin, CPA, says there are several ways they canand should motivate team members.

Q: A new mobile, free-or-almost-free nonprofit on wheels opens up shop once a week in my working-middle-class-to-upper-class neighborhood. As a practice owner, what can I do to deal with this situation and avoid losing business?