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UPDATE: What to understand about your veterinary student loans 
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Culture and People

UPDATE: What to understand about your veterinary student loans 

If you have any student loans from your time in veterinary school, you’re likely wondering what is going on amid federal uncertainty. With some borrowers getting automatically enrolled in plans with payments up to five times higher than what they were previously paying, to others who are not able to apply for income-driven repayment plans, there is a lot to understand.

Educating the future’s veterinarians: An evolving process
A group of veterinary students, including a Caucasian female and a Caucasian male, attentively examine an animal skeleton. Dressed in lab coats and gloves, they engage in hands-on learning within a university laboratory.

Clinical

Educating the future’s veterinarians: An evolving process

It’s not your mother’s veterinary school. Times are changing, and so are the ways that students are learning. New teaching methods, including competency-based educational models are being used more frequently. Experts say it is the way of the future.

Veterinary Voices: Christina Nau, FFCP
the veterinary aesculapius, a staff with a snake wrapped around it with wings at the top and a V overlying it inside a conversation bubble. A headshot of Christina Nau to the right of the conversation bubble.

Culture and People

Veterinary Voices: Christina Nau, FFCP

Meet Christina Nau, FFCP, a pre-veterinary student, veterinary assistant, speaker, and content creator who focuses on documenting her journey to apply to veterinary school and sharing an inside look at a day in the life of a veterinary professional. She is driven to provide other aspiring veterinarians with the resources and community they need to continue their own pre-veterinary journeys and to advocate for improved mental wellbeing within our profession.

 

Helping honey bees: How veterinarians can make a difference
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Clinical

Helping honey bees: How veterinarians can make a difference

If you’ve ever found yourself sweet on the idea of helping out honeybees, this insightful interview with Jörg Mayer, DVM, MS, DABVP, DECZM, DACZM, full professor in zoological medicine at the University of Georgia Veterinary College, might be just what you need to get started.

Stay, please: The curious case of the vanishing CrVTs
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Culture and People

Stay, please: The curious case of the vanishing CrVTs

Having trouble keeping great employees in certain roles? Learn how the findings from Phase 2 of AAHA’s Stay, Please retention study can help you identify exactly what changes need to be made, as well as how to make sure you’re implementing them in a way that resonates with those team members.

A journey of growth and fulfillment: View from the Board
Mark Thompson DVM MBA CCRP

Culture and People

A journey of growth and fulfillment: View from the Board

Fun, hard work, challenges, and growth: Mark Thompson, DVM, MBA, CCRP, takes a look back at his year as president of the AAHA board of directors.

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