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June 09, 2022

Grit + Love: A veterinary wellness journey during lockdown

“It looked like the sky was falling,” says Charles Hurty, DVM. He was talking about the skies over Newport, Oregon in September 2020, when out-of-control wildfires ravished the surrounding old growth forests and rained ash and grit over much of the Pacific Northwest. But he could have been talking about COVID-19. 

June 11, 2022

How to rate employee performance during a pandemic

It’s time for the annual performance review. And although, as a practice manager, you may be tempted to check the box, “exceeded expectations” for simply surviving a global pandemic, that’s not helpful.   

June 18, 2022

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Making Time for Mental Health

Veterinary medicine is chock-full of goal-oriented people who are accustomed to doing well in school, meeting challenges head-on, and problem-solving their way through emotional and difficult days. I’m like that too, which means when I find something that doesn’t come naturally to me, I tend to do everything I can to avoid it.    This has been my relationship with any mindfulness or meditation practice I’ve ever tried.

July 07, 2022

Introducing The 2022 AAFP/AAHA Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines

The concept of antimicrobial stewardship is relatively new, but antimicrobial resistance isn’t. “It’s been around since before we had antibiotics,” said  J. Scott Weese, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM. He called antimicrobial resistance a natural phenomenon.

August 05, 2022

What monkeypox means for pets

Monkeypox kind of snuck up on us. We've been so busy stressing about COVID rebounds and Omicron variants, headlines about monkeypox haven’t been top of mind for most.

August 24, 2022

New support for AAHA practice managers

Practice managers are known for being the ones other team members turn to for support—but who supports them? Introducing AAHA's new group for practice managers in the association’s online AAHA Community, a safe space  where practice managers at AAHA-accredited hospitals can support each other.

January 03, 2023

Bringing One Health to life through education and advocacy

When Deborah Thomson, DVM, graduated from veterinary school, she had no inkling she would start a global nonprofit, speak and teach internationally, or publish a book on science communication. NEWStat columnist Emily Singler, VMD, hopes others in vet med will follow her lead.

July 25, 2019

Weekly News Roundup 7/19 to 7/25

This week: Inaugural class at new veterinary school could get sent home come September, tracking baby turtles from the International Space Station, and would you like a lost-pet flyer with that pizza?

October 24, 2019

Weekly News Roundup 10/18 to 10/24

This week: Arizona greenlit for new veterinary college and testing on early detection of canine cancer. Plus, 1 woman, 1 van, and . . . 300 rats.

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