Improving your well-being is not as simple as taking a week-long holiday at a health spa, or simply getting more exercise and improving your diet. Though all of these are important to Veterinary Professional Wellbeing (and wouldn’t we all like to justify our own annual spa retreats), stress management and mental health care require fundamental changes to our daily lives. Remember that you deserve to nurture yourself to the same degree that you look after your patients. How do you cope when you are being pulled in so many directions, mentally as well as physically? Here are some essential first steps…
Secure your Dream Veterinary Job with these Simple Steps
Whether you are a Veterinarian straight out of university or an experienced and savvy Vet Technician, you can bolster your chances of receiving a job offer by following a few key measures. Here is your step-by-step plan to secure your dream veterinary job in the first five minutes of your interview…
5 Years as a Vet…now what?
As you approach five years into your career as a veterinarian, it’s time to step back and do some reflection. Take a few moments to carefully consider what you have learned, how your job has impacted your worldview, and how you’ve managed to balance your work responsibilities with social or family obligations. You probably don’t need to be convinced of the importance of self-evaluation. After all, you have been pushing yourself since your pre-vet days. Even as a practicing veterinarian, you likely work hard to keep up with evolving technology and techniques. You may put in long and irregular hours, either at the clinic or at home with your nose in reference books and veterinary journals, all in the continued quest for personal and professional development. Five years into your career, you’ve earned your chops and gained confidence in your work. Now it’s time to take a step back and take a big-picture view. What’s ahead for your career? What are your goals in your personal life? Where do you see yourself five years from now?
Love to Learn, Learn to Live – 5 Ways To Stay Ahead of the CE Curve
Before you know it, you’ll be 5 years post-matriculation from veterinary school or veterinary nursing school. Then 10 years. Then 15 years. It flies by! And with that rapid passage of time comes change. New drugs. New parasiticides. New diseases (we didn’t learn about feline pancreatitis when I went to vet school!). New surgical methods and techniques. You have to not only just keep up with these innovations and protocols, you have to get ahead of them in order to deliver best practice Veterinary Medicine. You need to love to learn and learn to live, so here are 5 great ways to get ahead, and stay ahead, of the Veterinary Continuing Education learning curve…
8 Essential Tips for Travelling Locum Relief Veterinarians
In an ideal world wouldn’t we all like to spend three months employed by a clinic in London, four weeks exploring your favourite vacation spots in Asia, and a month working part-time in Canada followed by three months soaking in the California vibe? Or perhaps you simply want more control over your schedule so you can spend more time with your kids, conduct that research you have always been putting off or you want to be entrepreneurial. Or you might just thrive on variety, enjoy meeting fellow industry professionals or want to broaden your experience and expertise. Whatever the reason, all is possible if you’re a professional, full-time Locum Relief Veterinarian…
Reach, Attract & Retain Great New Team Members for Your Regional Vet Practice
You’ve likely read the stories, or experienced the reality – small towns, regional cities and rural area veterinary clinics in Australia and abroad are having one heck of a time keeping their clinics staffed, much less finding “heirs” to step in when they’re ready to retire. One of the key challenges for veterinary practices outside […]