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Maximizing Your Personal & Professional Value

Maximizing Your Personal & Professional Value

Vet school is stressful enough without the added pressures of student debt, normal living expenses, and finding the right job capable of providing you the quality of life you deserve.

Did you know every $1,000 increase in starting salary services $25,000 in debt? It’s not often talked about, but your starting salary sets the stage for your future earning potential. 94% of the new veterinary school graduates placed coast-to-coast by Paul Diaz, founder of Hire Power Consulting, during the first seven months of 2020 received a base salary of no less than $95,000 (with benefits a starting salary in excess of $100,000!).

Join Paul to learn how to maximize your starting salary while avoiding the pitfalls you’ll encounter with the traditional hiring process. We’ll teach you how to become financially successful and emotionally wealthy in the greatest profession on earth.

Navigating Your Practice’s Preventative Care Yellow Brick Road During a Pandemic

Vaccines, Clients & Curbside… Oh My! Navigating Your Practice’s Preventative Care Yellow Brick Road During a Pandemic

Join Dr. Julie Reck, owner and founder of Fear Free Certified Practice Veterinary Medical Center of Fort Mill, for a discussion on vaccines, how to administer vaccines in a Fear Free manner, and how to improve communication throughout your practice to navigate preventative care in a curbside environment.

Brought to you by Elanco.

Alone in the Wilderness

Course Overview

Are you the only person in your clinic who has a passion for Fear Free? It’s easy to get discouraged and frustrated when we are surrounded by obstacles. This course provides tools to achieve your Fear Free goals even when you feel like you are all alone in your work. Learn how to get buy-in, implement strategies from the ground up, and encourage your colleagues to join your heart’s work of protecting the emotional welfare of our treasured animal patients.

This course, approved for 1 RACE CE hour, was written by Monique Feyrecilde BA, LVT, VTS (Behavior).

This course consists of five lessons:

Lesson 1: The essence and importance of Fear Free Practice
Lesson 2: Understanding the dynamics of change
Lesson 3: Implementing change within your practice
Lesson 4: Addressing common push-back topics
Lesson 5: Thrive where you’re planted, or transplant to a new garden

Lions and Tigers and Hamsters… Oh My!

Lions and Tigers and Hamsters… Oh My!

We invite you to join us for the third installation of our Fun Webinar series to break up your stressful weeks with something to look forward to! These webinars are for our human clients and intended to give you a mental break, learn something new and fun, or cater to your own emotional and mental wellbeing.

Take an hour to laugh and learn! Join Mark Goldstein, DVM for a fun inside look at the unique challenges encountered around caring for and treating captive wildlife. He will draw upon true stories from his recently published book, “Lions and Tigers and Hamsters: What Animals Large and Small Taught Me About Life, Love, and Humanity,” to keep your interest. He will also share additional cases never published, which will entertain and have you laughing while you wonder how he is still alive to share them.

There will be ample opportunity for Q&A regarding anything in the presentation or related questions regarding working with and caring for captive wildlife or animals in general. During these very challenging times, allow yourself the luxury of sitting back with your beverage of choice, with no responsibility except to pamper yourself and reduce your FAS score!

Opening the Door to Lifesaving: How Portals Can Save Shelter Cats

Opening the Door to Lifesaving: How Portals Can Save Shelter Cats

In this webinar, animal welfare strategist Dr. Sara Pizano will be exploring best practices in animal shelters and how implementing portals and the right disinfectant can decrease upper respiratory infections and ultimately increase live release rates.

Brought to you by Virox Animal Health.

The Impact of Pain

Course Overview

Pain is not just physically unpleasant for animals. Beyond physiological symptoms such as GI dysfunction, immunosuppression and delayed wound healing, pain also affects animals emotionally and increases FAS. If not controlled, acute pain can lead to central sensitization, chronic pain states, increased morbidity and increased mortality.

If left untreated for too long, pain can become maladaptive and lead to a vicious cycle of reduced activity, weaker muscles, even less exercise, and even more pain. This course will show the importance of treating pain early and why doing so can lessen its overall impact on patients.

This course, approved for 1 RACE CE hour, was written by Ralph Harvey, DVM, MS, DACVA, UTCVM.

This course consists of 6 lessons.

Lesson 1: Defining and Classifying Pain
Lesson 2: Surgical and Post-Operative Pain
Lesson 3: Chronic Pain
Lesson 4: Pain from Cancer
Lesson 5: Impact on the Human-Animal Bond
Lesson 6: Modern Analgesic Therapies

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Stand-Up Comedy with Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald

Stand-Up Comedy with Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald

We invite you to join us for the second installation of our Fun Webinar series to break up your stressful weeks with something to look forward to! These webinars are for our human clients and intended to give you a mental break, learn something new and fun, or cater to your own emotional and mental wellbeing.

We’ve been told laughter is the best medicine, so we’ve asked comedian Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald to fill our prescriptions. Best known for his 11 seasons on the popular Animal Planet television series “Emergency Vets”, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald practices small animal medicine at VCA Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, continues to do research, has authored over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles, and is on multiple boards for different Denver-area veterinary and zoo associations. In addition to his veterinary career, Dr. Fitzgerald has been performing stand-up comedy since 1986, opening for and working with performers such as Joan Rivers, Bob Hope, Kevin Nealon, Brian Regan, and Norm McDonald.

At-Home Fitness Tips with Dr. Evan Antin

At-Home Fitness Tips with Dr. Evan Antin

Welcome to our first installment of our Fun Webinar series to break up your stressful weeks with something to look forward to! These webinars are for our human clients and intended to give you a mental break, learn something new and fun, or cater to your own emotional and mental wellbeing.

Join us for fun and fitness with Dr. Evan Antin, Instagram’s most-followed veterinarian with over 1.3 million followers. Dr. Antin will be sharing his journey in becoming a veterinarian and some of his favorite at-home workout tips for humans, and then set aside time for Q&A.

Dr. Antin went viral after being featured in People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue in 2014, and again in 2016 & 2017. Dubbed “the sexiest veterinarian,” he took the Internet by storm.

He will be launching his first book “World Wild Vet” in October 2020 with his publisher Henry Holt (under Macmillan). This book covers Dr. Antin’s life from young wildlife/animal super-enthusiast all the way to his veterinary and wildlife conservation work around the world.

Dr. Antin originally hails from Kansas City, Kansas, where he grew up spending the majority of his childhood in search of native wildlife including snakes, turtles, and insects. He went on to study evolutionary and ecological biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and spent multiple semesters abroad in Australia and Tanzania to learn more about their respective ecosystems and fauna.

In addition to his love for cats and dogs, Dr. Antin’s passions lie in exotic animal medicine and interacting with exotic animals in their native habitats around the world. For more than a decade, Dr. Antin worked with wildlife in locations such as Central America, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Eastern and Southern Africa, South East Asia, and a variety of North American ecosystems.

The Business of Fear Free: How to Positively Impact Profitability & Practice Value

The Business of Fear Free: How to Positively Impact Profitability & Practice Value

A Fear Free approach to veterinary care is better for our patients, but what about our practices?

This presentation from Michael Hargrove, DVM, MBA, will demonstrate how becoming a Fear Free Certified Practice has business benefits that extend well beyond improved patient care. Every stakeholder in the practice benefits from Fear Free: the patients, the clients, the staff, and the practice owner.

Dr. Hargrove will discuss improved client experience, the development of a clearer brand image for the practice, and increased loyalty from clients, as well as how the change in practice culture improves staff satisfaction, increases employee retention, decreases workplace injury, and boosts employee recruiting. As a certified business appraiser, he also discusses how adopting a Fear Free practice culture can translate to an improved practice value when it comes time to sell.

Dr. Michael Hargrove is the owner of a 7-doctor small animal practice in Duluth, Minnesota. His practice has been AAHA-certified for 41 years and in 2018 became the first Fear Free Certified Practice in Minnesota. Dr. Hargrove is a certified Fear Free Professional and is also Certified in Low Stress Handling and a member of the Fear Free Advisory Group.

Dr. Hargrove also works with Summit Veterinary Advisors as a veterinary management consultant. He has an MBA and is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) who works primarily with veterinarians who are buying/selling veterinary practices or are looking for more information on how to improve the financial health of their practice. Dr. Hargrove is married with one son and three stepsons as well as three cats and a stepdog.

Brought to you by Ceva.

Training as Enrichment: Your Questions Answered

Training as Enrichment: Your Questions Answered

You asked, and we will answer! Fear Free Head Trainer Mikkel Becker and Education Manager Lori Chamberland will discuss some of the most common questions we’ve received from previous Fear Free training webinars. We’ll talk about leash reactivity/pulling on leash, teaching dogs and cats to live in harmony, counter surfing, and more! We will leave time at the end for you to ask questions in real time, as well. Join us – your dog or cat will thank you!

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