Wellbeing & Lifestyle

A fear of failure, a lack of support and their brand beat up on TV and social mediaveterinarians deserve better, says Dr. Alane Cahalane during Fetch dvm360.

You are never fully prepared when you leave veterinary school and enter the real world of practice. In the spirit of camaraderie, Dr. Detweiler offers up some wise and practical advice for new graduates about to embark on their professional journey.

In this Vetted Q&A with a rock star veterinary practice owner, Dr. Julie Reck reveals that the road you take is sometimes not the one you intended to take. And thats just fine.

Managers can enter the dvm360/VHMA contest through July 2; finalists will be announced at Fetch dvm360 in Kansas City.

Whether you perform five surgeries a day or 40, keeping up with surgical technique advancements and striving for more efficiency will benefit you and your veterinary patients.

In veterinary practices, success leads to happiness, right? Not so fast. Its happiness that breeds business success, say psychology experts. And theres research to prove it.

Veterinary surgeon, TedX star and Fetch dvm360 keynote speaker shares what its like to practice in Asia.

Spa nights aren't for everyone, but that doesn't mean that keeping up your physical and emotional health isn't an important piece to surviving in veterinary medicine.

When life hands you awkward situations, you make veterinary confessions.

Heres our regular rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

Asking pet owners, colleagues and the rest of the world to be nice to us is not going to solve our veterinary professions problems with burnout, mental health and suicide. Its time to better manage our emotional and conversational boundaries.

A path to build wealth. A willingness to learn to be a better delegator and leader. A calling to provide a healthy place for veterinary professionals to bloom. That’s all possible as the owner of a veterinary hospital.

Long running attention to details yields dividends for industry veteran.

You need a fresh perspective. You need to breathe the air somewhere else. Break out of your veterinary practice world into a new city or a new country and get a new state of mind.

You work a lot of hours helping patients in need and probably have felt more than a little stress in the past week. Thats the life of a veterinary professional. But you need to take time to take care of you, too.

It's a new day. This veterinarian has recommendations to keep feeling good.

Losing a pet is hard on owners and veterinarians alike, but knowing how grief works may help navigate the loss.

Well-being research explores personality traits in veterinary medicine; results revealed at WVC.

My journey from practicing veterinarian to long-time animal health company executive was a long one. But a big, fun leap for me in the past year was heading to a female-focused, working-parent-friendly new chain of clinics.

Burnout and compassion fatigue are nothing new and it can be hard to keep going. Here are some other veterinary professionals struggling to find their spark and some words of encouragement.

The WVLDI crew demonstrates the game.

Featured speaker for upcoming Fetch dvm360 Baltimore, Alane Cahalane, shares advice on taking chances, chasing joy and learning from others.

Ever noticed that people tend to be a lot more honest about their life choices when asked to tell the truth in a game? This phenomenon is exactly what Drs. Caitlin DeWilde and Kimberly-Ann Therrien and I experienced when we used a popular party game to teach life lessons in Women's Veterinary Leadership Development Initiative sessions at Fetch dvm360.

The dvm360 team decided to put our money where our mouth is and try out a 12-week yoga program.

Moms—who are also veterinarians—chime in on what makes this arrangement difficult.

Decision-making shortcuts can ward off mental fatigue in your life and veterinary practice.

Balancing the demands of parenthood with a veterinary associate job is no easy undertaking. Neither is running a successful business. Here both sides plead their case.

DEK: Parenthood evolves our careers, it doesnt end themeven if some of us choose to quit the profession altogether.

Not everyone working in a veterinary hospital has kids (or wants them). How can you, as a practice owner or manager, fairly accommodate everybodys work schedules?

With a variety of different state and federal policies, knowing what leave you're entitled to can be an arduous task.