Integrating relief medicine into practices

In an interview with dvm360, Andrew Findlaytor, DVM, talked a bit about relief medicine—a topic he discussed during Fetch dvm360 conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Here, he shares some ways clinics can incorporate relief veterinarians into their practices, and shares some of the benefits that relief medicine offers, such as helping businesses grow.

Findlaytor will be presenting another lecture on relief medicine at our upcoming Fetch Coastal conference, to take place in Atlantic City, New Jersey from October 14-16. There, he will discuss how the rising trend of relief medicine will affect practices, and more. To learn more about this growing topic, register here.

Below is a partial transcript.

Andrew Findlaytor, DVM: Relief really can and should be integrated into every practice out there. It's great for helping clinics grow. If you want to make the offer for a full-time associate, but you're a little worried, well we have enough client volume, or we have enough volume for our practice, relief is great. You can have a relief veterinarian come in 1 day a week, 2 days a week, kind of on a part time basis, which will help you build that confidence, so eventually [you can] transition that role to full time.

And likewise, relief is great for interviewing candidates. We all know workplace culture is a very important topic. Instead of having to put out an offer and hoping that a 1 hour, or in some cases, a 30 minute interview is enough to really get to know someone, you can have a relief veterinarian come by and work with you for a week, for a month, whatever you like, until you’re confident that this is the right person for helping you grow your business.