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Guidelines to podcasts: AAHA resources to complement National Veterinary Technicians Week
As we celebrate National Veterinary Technician Week, here’s a roundup of several resources from Guidelines to recent podcasts on the role of technicians and the crucial role they play in veterinary medicine.
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National Veterinary Technicians Week is here! To celebrate, Here’s a list of resources AAHA’s team put together to honor vet techs and provide information about the value they offer their practices.
Guidelines:
AAHA’s 2023 AAHA Technician Utilization Guidelines highlight how veterinary practices can optimize technician use and help utilize techs full protentional.
To accompany those guidelines, we’ve also created the Veterinary Technician Utilization Toolkit to complement those guidelines.
Articles:
- Celebrating veterinary technicians: Beyond Vet Tech Week
- Meet AAHA’s 2025 Veterinary Technician of the Year finalists and winner!
- From the Guidelines: 3 ways to improve technician utilization
- Mobile pet care: From technician appointments to full-service home care
- 5 Questions for a Research Anesthesia Veterinary Technician Specialist
- For technician retention, money matters
- Technician Utilization in Dermatology
Research:
Our research in Stay, Please and Stay, Please II comprehensively retention and attrition factors for the whole veterinary team, and focus in on what keeps technicians in practice, and more than that, what those same techs value in a workplace.
Podcasts:
PODCAST: Technician advocacy with Dr. Andy Roark: Pay, career progression, and innovation in vet med
In this episode, we chatted with Andy Roark, DVM, MSc, a veterinarian, writer, podcast host, speaker, and founder. You may have listened to his podcast, The Cone of Shame, or if you attended AAHA Con this year, you may have heard him as our opening keynote speaker! In this episode we talk with Roark about technician compensation, innovation in veterinary medicine, and much more.
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