Personal/Professional Development
Animal Sentience: An Inconvenient Truth?
Veterinarians may accept sentience as a truth but that does not have to mean it is used against us.
Personal Wellbeing
Running on Empty
There are a few ways to ensure you and your coworkers are getting enough sleep.
Personal/Professional Development
Ensuring Safe Arrivals
Advocating for national, legislative-backed oversight on canine importations could save countless domestic animal lives by ensuring proper vaccination and health status.
Personal/Professional Development
What Will Make You Happy?
Treating the animal in front of us may be our job, but it is the client who we often answer to.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Changing Face of Veterinary Medicine
Diversity in the veterinary profession starts as low as marketing the available opportunities to high school students and as high as hiring diverse candidates to positions of power and decision-making.
Ethics/Welfare
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Veterinarians have an ethical obligation to their patients and companion animals as a whole. Should we follow international suit and support breed bans or keep pushing for scientifically driven positive breeding programs?Ethics/Welfare
In Good Faith
It is veterinarians' sole purpose to ensure the wellbeing of pets, but what if you suspect intentional abuse? Do you feel protected in reporting suspected animal abuse?Personal Wellbeing
Stamp Out Burnout
As we grow older in life and in this profession, we may feel it is acceptable or inevitable to feel mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted.
Ethics/Welfare
What Constitutes Animal Cruelty?
Isn’t it time for the veterinary profession to acknowledge that animal cruelty encompasses much more than physical abuse alone?