Culture and Wellbeing
Credentialed veterinary technicians are highly trained people who are able to perform a wide variety of tasks in the clinic, but they are also chronically underutilized. Here are three things you can stop doing in order to improve technician utilization in your practice, based on the 2023 AAHA Technician Utilization Guidelines.
Clinical
Newsweek released its first-ever ranking of America’s Best Animal Hospitals—and it came about because of one pet owner’s experience and her desire to create the kind of list she wished she’d had available.
Clinical
A proposed bill would give the federal government the sole authority to regulate labeling and advertising of pet food, effectively removing state oversight from the equation.
Clinical
While your waiting room may typically be filled with barking dogs and timid cats, some of your clients may also raise chickens. This article contains the most recent H5N1 updates as of Mar. 7.
Culture and People
Everywhere you look, there’s a new headline about menopause or perimenopause. However, even though veterinary medicine is predominantly female, the profession has not yet figured out how to support the working professionals dealing with the symptoms that accompany this life stage. In this conversation with Liz Barton, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, MCIPR, we talk about how we can change that—for the better.
Culture and People
Congratulations to the AAHA/CareCredit Employee of the Month for March 2025: Heidi Sedinger, CVT, inventory manager at Oakview Veterinary Medical Center in Plover, Wisconsin!
Culture and People
Lesli Groshong, DVM, DABVP (Shelter Medicine), is chief shelter veterinarian at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley (HSBV) in Boulder, Colorado. She joined HSBV in 1994, and since then has mentored hundreds of veterinary students in shelter medicine and spay/neuter surgeries.
Client Communication
In an era of subscription services, from Netflix to HelloFresh, many veterinary practices have yet to embrace this powerful business model for pet care. As practices face declining visits and high costs, could subscription-based wellness plans be the solution both practices and pet parents need?
Clinical
Since November, 2024, five animal drugs used in the treatment of companion animal species have undergone safety-related updates to their labels based on post-approval experience reported to the FDA. Get the details, including important warnings for both veterinary professionals and pet owners, here.
Culture and People
Veterinary webinars, new tools, and more! Here’s what’s to come at AAHA for March 2025.
