How well prepared are you for the change from your time as a student to professional life as a veterinary practitioner? Whatever clinical direction you choose to pursue, for sure life will be significantly different from that as a student. During your time at the University you have focused your time and attention towards animal health, [...]

Dr. John Sheridan , senior consultant at Veterinary Business Briefing , presents a new episode of the Video Show, covering topics such as: – The three fundamental steps to improve  compliance in your practice – A closer look at the services available from RxWorks – Life at a London veterinary hospital – A tool to review the communication skills of [...]

Bone problems can be hard to deal with This weeks news letter deals with the possible problems your dog can encounter after enjoying eating a bone. After reading it, I guess there will be no doubt in your mind as to what to do with the left-over-bones of your dinner. You will not give them to [...]

Greetings from Hill’s Pet Nutriton! We are delighted to invite you to participate in the online seminar (webinar) hosted by Veteducation.com.au and Hill’s Pet Nutrition on “Gastrointestinal Emergencies” by Dr Elizabeth Dill-Macky BVSc(Hons) DipVetClinStud MACVSc Diplomate ACVIM. The webinar will take place on: Tuesday, 11th May 2010 at 19.00 pm Prague time . (Prague is now in CEST Central European Summer [...]

The new Video Show 18 by VBB John Sheridan is now available. It covers a wide range of topics: - The importance of looking at your practice through the eyes of consumers – What is the soup of the day? by Ross Tiffin – A closer look at the services available from Dodd and Co – What [...]

The Newsletter produced by Dr. Phil Zeltman , is special in more than one way. First of all the authors story is special. Dr. Zeltzman was born in France, studied in Belgium (Liege) and moved to the USA for specialization as a surgeon. How many vets from France did that? Not too many. And now he is a successful author [...]

Vetstart welcomes Antonio Soares from the University in Porto, Portugal as our member 3.500 . Another milestone. Welcome Antonio! We trust you will enjoy your membership and the benefits. In order to be even more successfull, Vetstart likes to double the membership numbers as soon as possible. With all your help we can do it. Please recommend the free [...]

To be a good vet of course you need to know about anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacy, and of course disease prevention, diagnosis and therapy. However, your success in practice is depending on much more than how much you know about health and disease. The Essentials of Veterinary Practice are presented in a new book with the same [...]

Arabian horse Workshop 2010 IVSA ZAGAZIG,EGYPT Please find all information regarding this unique workshop in the linked documents, 1. the 100407 Egypt Arabian Horse Workshop Program Oct10 2. the Application form in 100407 Egypt Arabian Horse Workshop Appl Form (PDF) and 091022 IVSA EGYPT Assuit_APP_FORM(Word DOC) We wish you a great experience and please don’t forget to share your story and [...]

The VetCoach mission is to get a vetCoach book into the hands of each veterinary student at or before graduation. That objective seemed may be far away from reality when the first book was published 1 year ago. Today, 4 VetCoach editions have been published to reach students in Europe and Latin America, in English and in Spanish [...]

John Sheridan, the senior consultant and owner at Veterinary Business Briefing continues to provide excellent advice of practice owners, practice managers and all staff members of the veterinary Health Care Team. The latest episode of the VBB Video Show has lots of interesting content and we suggest that you take some minutes to watch it and [...]

Vetstart photo competition: The Veterinary Student Upload your photos related to the theme “The Veterinary Student”: Your classmates, pets, animals, school, hospital, what ever related to being a vet student. Make a chance to win one of 10 Vetstart pen drives, or one of 3 VetCoach books . Every week for the next 5 weeks , two pen drives will be [...]

Owners without money ar a potential risk to the practice because eventually someone has to pay for the services provided to the pet. The logic is that when the owner does not pay, the clinic or the clinic staff does. When the treatment is free or at a discounted rate for what ever reason, either [...]

Promotion is an excellent way to reward team members for performance. The person who becomes promoted most probably wil have a higher salary and may be even more important, she/he will have more responsibility. Hiring an outsider to fill the vacant job can be demotivating for existing team members. Learn more about the advancing employees in the [...]

For years we have seen the share and the number of female veterinary students increase and they out-numbered their fellow male student colleagues for many years. This is a trend we see around the world. Now for the first time in its history, in 2009 the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), has more female than male members . [...]

The articles below are practice management and finance topics as featured on the Veterinary Business Briefing website, and were donated to Vetstart by senior consultant Dr. John Sheridan. Register now to VBB and enjoy the full member benefits enjoying a nice Vetstart discount. Use the special VBB registration form for Vetstart members that can be found in the VBB [...]

Vetstart continues to grow and we recently welcomed our 3.400 member from Lisbon Portugal . Daiana Cardosa from the ULHT Lusofuna University in Lisbon is the lucky winner of one of the best-selling books by Steven Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . We congratulate Daiana and are looking forward to welcome the next winner when we reach the mile [...]

on 23 and 24 January 2010 a BIG congress meeting was held with the central topic Emergencies in Veterinary Medicine . Apparently this subject was of high interest to Portugese veterinarians and to vets from Spain as well. Around 300 of te total 1300 delegates came from neighbouring Spain.This was the 6th edition of this meeting organized by the [...]

Global European experts, such as Dr Johann Lang, Head of Imaging at the University of Bern Veterinary School in Switzerland and Dr Gilles Dupré, Head of Surgery at the Vienna Veterinary School in Austria are among the speakers lined up for the fourth 2010 Southern European Veterinary Congress (SEVC), which takes place in Barcelona between [...]