Career Development

I'm getting ready to take over as practice manager. It's my first leadership role, so I'm a little intimidated. What are the biggest things I should avoid in the beginning?

No wonder veterinary associates can't imagine ownership. Where does their low self-esteem come from?

Consider this advice when setting large goals.

My friend dedicates one trip a year to visiting conference vendors. Here's my take.

Quiz: Holiday myths debunked (3-Fact)

Dive into this list of schools and organizations offering CE and resources on expanding your aquatic veterinary knowledge and practice.

Follow this advice to avoid ending up in a dysfunctional partnership.

The end of the year is a perfect time to consider improvements in your veterinary hospital. Use these tips to create the leaner, healthier, happier practice you've been dreaming of.

Is the payback worth the juicy post or tweet?

Who you are online can kill your chances of snagging your dream job-or even your next job. Make sure your Web presence isn't hurting your hirability with these tools.

Quick tips to keeping a clean record.

It's time to tighten up your social network privacy settings.

Use these websites to see what the Web says about you.

But if you have to go somewhere, the CVC veterinary conference is a great choice.

Schaumburg, Ill. - The National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues (NCVEI) recently reorganized and is moving forward with a detailed collaborative study in conjunction with Brakke Consulting and Bayer Animal Health to examine declines in veterinary visits.

San Diego -- Dr. Marty Becker takes the stage tomorrow to deliver a keynote address for CVC San Diego.

Your mental health at your veterinary practice may mean doing things differently.

A recent veterinary graduate shares the important lessons she learned outside the classroom.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success,nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things."

Veterinary medicine has been owner-centric, not systems-centric.

Veterinary Practice Managers and Technicians are bombarded with financial information. Given this, determining which information to focus on can be an important task.

Got to have a plan! Management is control of one's emotions and you are PAID to do this better than the doctor in your practice.

Become a learning practice.

Everyone knows that veterinary practices are busy places! There is always something going on - the phone is ringing, clients are coming in the door, and beloved pets need our help. The life of a veterinary healthcare team member is hectic.

We spend too much time "in" the business and not enough "on" the business.

There are so many calculations to be made during a typical day in a veterinary practice - antibiotic doses, fluid flow rates, anaesthetic and analgesic doses. Every time someone makes a calculation there is a chance for a mistake. Unfortunately, even a small miscalculation can spell disaster for an animal patient.

The internal controls of a veterinary practice is often overlooked by owners, and the ramifications of this can be financially catastrophic.

Our profession has had its ups and downs over the years. We have seen periods of perceived shortages and excesses of practicing veterinarians. We have moved from a profession of mostly male, large animal practitioners to one of mostly female, companion animal practitioners. The human-animal bond has been better understood and developed so that our pets have moved from the barn in the 1950's into our bed by the 1990's.

Like many small businesses, veterinary practices across the country are seeing a lot of the same issues.