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As restrictions are lifted on businesses around the country, many veterinary practices are weighing their options for how to proceed with caution while maintaining safety for staff and clients alike.

The breakroom in your hospital can serve multiple functions, all of which lead to a more productive and enthusiastic veterinary team.

This veterinary organization, founded by members of the LGBTQ+ community within the profession, is hosting several exciting virtual events in honor of this special month.

Here are some tips to help your veterinary team cut back on overtime.

COVID-19 has tested our skills and forced veterinary practice owners, associates and teams out of our comfort zones in many ways. It has also taught us some important lessons along the way.

There may be disagreement about the reasons why relatively few minorities join the veterinary profession, but we all agree that increasing diversity and inclusion should be a priority.

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The dilemma: Should you give special recognition to your front-line veterinary practice team in light of the fact that others were unable to work during COVID-19?

How do you feel about ghosts, clowns, drowning, bankruptcy, heights and Freddy Kruger? This Texas veterinarian recently had occasion to analyze his own worst fears, and here’s what he learned.

Hint: It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach.

COVID-19 is turning the veterinary industry on its head, with effects that are both positive and negative.

Check out this week's top veterinary headlines.

Following its worldwide survey of mental health and wellbeing in the veterinary profession, WSAVA vows to take steps to advance the health and welfare of veterinary teams around the world.

A three-time veterinary school dean, Dr. Glen Hoffsis has had a major impact on both veterinary education and public policy.

Mackenzie Peterson will play an instrumental role in promoting mental health at the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges’ member institutions.

As shelter-in-place restrictions are lifted throughout the country, the full impact of the pandemic shutdown will come into clearer focus. Here are four major challenges veterinary practices can expect—and how to handle them.

How to turn the threat of online pharmacies into opportunities for your practice.

Euthanasia should be a gentle death, but when it’s not—for whatever reason—it is incumbent on veterinary teams to address the situation with their clients and themselves.

Matters of the heart can get tricky. That’s why we’ve developed a host of tools to help you get a handle on heartworm disease in dogs and cats. (With an educational grant provided by Bayer)

Your clients might question the need for annual heartworm testing if their dog has been on a preventive throughout the year. Now you can give them the answers easily.

Give your clients the facts about the damage heartworm disease can do not only to their pet’s health but also to their pocketbook.

A veterinary practice manager and consultant shares from personal experience why some team members are disengaged—and what to do about it.

Nutritional information is a key part of a veterinary patient’s history and crucial to good medical case management, yet this information can be elusive. According to the results of a new study, how you phrase your question can make all the difference between an ample answer and a lean response.

VetMedAcademy and Merck Veterinary Manual are co-sponsoring a contest to celebrate faculty creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With so many practices turning to telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts share what it really means—and some key benefits of incorporating telehealth into veterinary practice.

The Independent Veterinary Practitioners Association was founded for a single reason: to help independent veterinary businesses thrive in an era of corporate consolidation.

This free CE webinar offers straight talk about how to address the five biggest post-pandemic obstacles veterinary practices will face.

To reel in new veterinary clients—and turn them into loyal customers—you must appeal to their hidden “hero.”

Pumpkin offers pet owners a new way to bundle their pet’s health insurance with a holistic preventive care plan.

The latest edition includes access to a companion website with exclusive COVID-19 protocols to help you manage your team during a pandemic and other emergency situations.