The Challenges our Veterinarians Face
A Workforce in Crisis?
Veterinarians continue to deal with implications and changes to their personal and professional lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID has mean changes in procedures, safety protocols, and even workflow. All of these changes have caused burn out, and caused staff turnover. To read more about the challenges facing vets, read the ACMA’s article “Are we in a veterinary workforce crisis?”
Fierce competition over veterinary labor
Practices compete over veterinarians inclined to work fewer hours. To read more about how veterinary medicine is in the midst of a tight labor market for a highly sought-after workforce for which striking a work-life balance is of supreme importance, read the JAVMA news article here.
Thank you to Pam Becker for sharing this article!
What it Takes to be a Vet
Years of intensive training is only the beginning of a veterinarian’s tough role. The job is not only fast paced and rigorous, but mentally and emotionally exhausting. So exhausting, in fact, that small animal veterinarians are the second most at-risk profession in the nation for suicide. Watch Dr. Melanie Bowden’s TEDx “What being a veterinarian really takes” to learn more.