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How comfortable is your team treating common bird emergencies? Sydney Pockard , DVM, talks to columnist Emily Singler, VMD, and offers tips for veterinarians in general practice.  

Veterinary residencies are moving out of the teaching hospital a s aspiring specialists seek residencies at private and corporate practices, or even find mentors to help design veterinary residencies remotely.

In honor of World Wildlife Conservation Day (Dec. 4), Co-founder Kayla Fratt of K9 Conservationists shares how conservation detection dogs sniff out the scat of everything from Alaskan wolves to Guatemalan ocelots to help further research of their ecosystems and reveal who’s eating whom in the wild.

A recent study funded by the Human Animal Bond Research Institute found that cats offer more than just companionship to older adults: Feline ownership can ease loneliness, improve health, and even reduce doctor visits. 

Seattle-based Urban Animal is only the second worker cooperative in vet med in the US—but what does that mean exactly? NEWStat talks with owner Cherri Trusheim, DVM, about how her unique exit strategy will unfold, and what it could mean for her employees.

Temple Grandin, PhD, MS, shares how neurodiverse minds think differently from others—and why that’s a good thing for your team, your patients, and your practice. 

Super Bowl commercials often feature cute animals—and that can be a conversation starter for veterinary teams to debunk myths while remind ing clients that their veterinarian is their best resource for accurate information about the health and wellbeing of their pets.  

Niccole Bruno, DVM, founded blendVET to provide hands-on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) training for veterinary practices—and now blendVET’s “pathway events” at K–12 schools are showing students in underserved communities that they also have a place in vet med.

You don’t have to be a wildlife vet to help animals in places like the Galapagos Islands, Kenya, or Sumatra—small animal veterinary professionals are needed to serve the dogs, cats, and people who live near the wild too.

Approximately one in five people have a neurodivergent condition. This diversity brings unique strengths and opportunities for self-care and allyship in how we work with teammates and clients who have bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other forms of neurodiversity.