VPN Plus+ ExclusiveUnleashing the truth: challenging veterinary industry norms and embracing new opportunitiesJuly 6, 2023By Patty Khuly, VMD, MBAIt is high time I wrote a post on what you are doing all wrong and how we can all do better. However, before you come at me for my unspeakable hubris, please understand I speak from a place of love for animals on the planet of unflinching self-recrimination. In other words, if I tell you you’re doing something misguided and stupid, it’s because I figured it out after screwing it up first—and continually do.
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VPN Plus+ ExclusiveWorkForce Crisis: Retaining StaffJune 2, 2022Leslie Boudreau, BASVT, RVTg, CVPM, PHR, PHRca, SPHR, on how the veterinary industry is facing a workforce crisis. Retaining and growing your staff has never been more important. Employees are our most valuable assets, but do they know this? With the Great Resignation upon us, now is the time to change our focus to retention and talent management. If you don’t help them grow, you will watch them go!
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Bridge Club names Industry ICONMay 30, 2019The Bridge Club has announced the president and chief executive officer of Compassion-First Pet Hospitals as its Industry ICON honoree. John Payne, who also serves as the chair of Compassion-First and of American Humane, will receive a lifetime membership, as well as guest-host the ICON series live event in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 5. This series allows Bridge Club members and veterinary professionals to meet and learn from experts in the field who have had …
AVMA MyVeterinaryLife website supports early-career vets, studentsAugust 27, 2018MyVeterinaryLife.com, a new American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) website for early-career veterinarians and vet students, answers commonly asked questions about the industry and offers career tips, financial guidance, and ways to deal with work-related stress. MyVeterinaryLife.com is dedicated to offering a chance for trainees in the field to receive the critical resources veterinary students and young professionals need to support themselves and their well-being as the next generation of veterinarians, according …
Brakke to offer webinar on veterinary industry issuesJune 7, 2018Brakke Consulting Inc. is offering a one-hour webinar later this month on four issues facing veterinarians and the veterinary industry. Presented by senior consultant John Volk, "Hot Topics in Veterinary Medicine" will examine such topics as: Supplier Concentration: What Does it Mean to Veterinary Practices? Veterinary Practice Consolidation: Bubble or Long-Term Trend? Preventive Care Plans: Are They Essential to Your Future? Healthy Veterinarians, Healthy Practice: How is your Wellbeing? Participants will have an opportunity …
Report: 4 factors transforming veterinary industryJune 1, 2018Growing competition for flea and tick medication sales online, the aging demographics of the veterinary profession, the heavy debt load of recent veterinary school graduates, and the money being offered by consolidators are transforming the veterinary industry, according to market research firm Packaged Facts' Pet Industry Outlook: Veterinary Services and Pet Product Retailing. Consolidation and ecommerce trends that in large part are fueling the shifts tie in to significant changes in …
