In partnership with

🩺 Hi there…

This Week | Brace yourself for our 9 controversial predictions that will shake up veterinary medicine in 2025 - from debunking AI to the bursting of the corporatization bubble, we're challenging the status quo. For those exploring locum relief work, discover practical wisdom for your first shifts from our experienced community members. Get the latest on Florida's groundbreaking 'Inspire' program making mental health resources accessible to all veterinary professionals, and explore fascinating developments in animal longevity research. Browse exceptional opportunities from Santa Barbara to Winchester, including exciting roles in emergency medicine and practice leadership. Check out our active locum relief positions across three continents, plus catch up on industry trends from digital payment evolution to the latest in practice expansion strategies. And as always...please take care of yourself; you deserve it, and if you can, someone else too 🤗

📰 Your Veterinary News & Trends

💡 Our 9 Controversial Veterinary Industry Predictions for 2025

As we enter 2025, the veterinary industry stands at a crossroads, with conventional wisdom being challenged on multiple fronts. While many industry commentators paint pictures of AI-driven practices, seamless cross-border mobility, and ever-expanding corporate consolidation, we believe the reality will be starkly different. Our analysis points to several controversial, perhaps uncomfortable, truths about where the profession is actually headed this year.

In this article, we challenge nine deeply held assumptions about the veterinary sector’s direction. From the emperor’s new clothes of AI to the unsustainable economics of corporatization, these predictions will likely ruffle feathers across the industry. Some readers will disagree vehemently with our views – and that’s exactly the point. These predictions aren’t designed to comfort, but to provoke serious discussion about the real challenges and opportunities facing veterinary professionals, practice owners, and industry leaders in 2025…

🦉 Locum Relief Wisdom – A Practical Guide to your first few shifts…

Ready to take your first steps into veterinary relief work? Building on our previous discussion about whether locum relief work might be right for you, this practical guide focuses on making those crucial first shifts a success. Drawing from our vibrant community of experienced relief veterinarians, nurses, and technicians, we’ve compiled essential wisdom to help you navigate this exciting transition…

🧬 Helping Animals Live Longer: Targeting the Hallmarks of Aging

Every veterinarian faces the same question: How can we help our patients live longer and happier lives? While we can’t stop time, science is offering exciting new ways to answer this question...

💝 Free therapy in Florida? What about in your State?

The Florida Veterinary Medical Association’s new “Inspire” program aims to make mental health and other general well-being resources available to all Floridians in veterinary medicine, regardless of membership with the organization. From idea to reality...

🩺Job Of The Week

🩺Featured Jobs USA + Canada

Veterinarian

🔸San Francisco🔸CA🔸USA🔸Are you a compassionate and skilled veterinarian seeking a fulfilling career in a non-corporate, family-owned practice? Look no further! We are a reputable small animal clinic located in the beautiful Sunset District of San Francisco, serving our community for over 60 years with a legacy of exceptional veterinary care and customer service. Join our warm, welcoming, talented, and highly supportive veterinary team.

Associate Veterinarian

🔸Yucca Valley🔸CA🔸USA🔸Join us in providing top-notch care at a hometown clinic and come enjoy all the area has to offer. Yucca Valley is a rapidly growing town with affordable housing, plenty of land, minutes from Joshua Tree National Park and close to Palm Springs, as well as close proximity to the beautiful mountains and endless So-Cal beaches. Enjoy the prospect of genuine work-life balance in an ideal location.

Small Animal Veterinarian

🔸Santa Barbara🔸CA🔸USA🔸At The Goodland Pet Hospital on the sunny Santa Barbara coast we prioritize best-practice medicine & human kindness, With cutting-edge technology & a focus on collaboration, you can thrive here with a variety of intriguing cases that will keep you engaged. If you’re a warm, dedicated veterinarian, let’s chat about joining our team - enjoy genuine work-life balance in an ideal lifestyle location.

🩺Featured Jobs Australia + NZ + ASIA

Small Animal Veterinarian

🔸Bundaberg🔸QLD🔸Australia🔸Join our warm, welcoming, and talented Small Animal Hospital team! With a growing demand for our services, we need dedicated vets to provide exceptional care to our patients. You'll have the opportunity to guide each case from consultation to recovery, ensuring the highest standards of veterinary care. If you are passionate, skilled, and ready to make a difference, we want you on our team.

Lead Veterinarian

🔸Hamilton🔸VIC🔸Australia🔸Are you looking to further your career and move into a leadership position? Join our management team, which is responsible for the professional management of all clinical operations. Clinical operations include managing, training, developing and supervising veterinary associates, graduates and nursing staff, as well as being hands-on in the delivery of veterinary services to patients.

Lead Veterinarian

🔸Central Coast🔸NSW🔸Australia🔸We are seeking a lead veterinarian with aspirations for greater responsibility that is rewarded and recognised. As the Lead Vet, you will be involved in a mix of consulting, surgery and leading a wonderful team of passionate vets and nurses. Lead a team of like-minded veterinary professionals delivering personalised and dedicated veterinary care to our local patients and owners.

🩺Featured Jobs UK + Europe + Worldwide

Lead Veterinary Surgeon

🔸Oldham 🔸Greater Manchester🔸UK🔸Looking for that next step in your career? Have you thought in the past about setting up your own practice but don’t know where to start? Beyond your everyday responsibilities of caring for patients and clients, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing the team. Your drive and ambition will fuel the development of the practice’s client base, ensuring the delivery of high standards of care.

Senior Veterinary Surgeon

🔸Stockwell🔸Greater London🔸UK🔸Our popular practice in the heart of southwest London is getting increasingly busier, resulting in the need for a senior vet to join our growing team. This senior role can offer the ability for growth in any area you are passionate about, especially if clinical management is your next step, and also offers a flexible rota during the week to ensure there is the optimum work-life balance.

Small Animal Vet

🔸Dagenham🔸Greater London🔸UK🔸We are currently on the lookout for a Small Animal Vet to join our growing, motivated team! We are committed to being a fully inclusive place to work where all our colleagues are encouraged to be themselves, where difference is celebrated, and where everyone feels able to deliver their best. Regular in-clinic patient consults and routine surgery, workomng as a sole practitioner when required.

🏥 Find Locum Relief Jobs & Shifts 24/7…

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Holmdel🔸New Jersey🔸USA🔸Our Staff of dedicated professionals operates as a team, supporting one another in a shared goal of delivering the highest quality of care to the patients we serve. We work to create a warm, welcoming environment not only for our clients but for our team members as...

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP - Mixed Animal

🔸Longreach🔸Queensland🔸AUSTRALIA🔸We are a mixed animal practice that services a rural community in Central West QLD. We deal with majority small animals, as well as offering services to cattle, horses and sheep work in the area. We are a 2 vet clinic that places an emphasis on work life balance and work enjoyment. Come and...

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Liverpool🔸Merseyside🔸UK🔸The whole team shares the same wish to offer the highest standard of care to patients that we can and go above and beyond for our patients and...

🩺 Find Locum Relief Vets, Nurses & Technicians 24/7…

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinary Technician

🔸Phoenix🔸Arizona🔸USA🔸My name is Crystal. I have been in the field for 17+ years. I began Emergency medicine at 1st Pet in Chandler. I enjoyed overnights as I was able to learn things such as CRIs, antivenom, toad toxicities, and much more outside of the GP...

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinary Nurse

🔸Wynyard,🔸Tasmania🔸AUSTRALIA🔸My Name is Carmel, I am a Veterinary Nurse from the North West Coast of Tasmania. For the past 6 years I have worked in a busy, growing, Mixed Practice Clinic. Working my way up to a senior position, I have trained nurses below me and supervised many work placement students. Before working in...

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Markfield🔸England🔸UK🔸My name is Katarina. I initially worked in private practice for 3 years after graduation and then moved to PDSA work for 4 years. I have been locuming for over a year in private practices and PDSA...

📣 Veterinary Trends News & Memes

🐶 🐱 🦜 🐠 🐮 🐴 🐑 🐨

📈 Practice expands from having three doctors to 18 doctors in four years through implementing the co-ownership model

💰 Did your Client Visits Lag in 2024? New study confirms veterinary prices outpacing national inflation

🎬 Top 3 Must-Watch Movies About Veterinarians That Will Melt Your Heart!

📱 With 79 percent of Gen Z consumers using digital wallets, is your practice embracing this trend

🗣️ The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language

⏰ Seeing an uptick in no-shows for procedures? How to get clients to arrive, and on time, for surgeries

🚨 Preparing pets and livestock for evacuation in anticipation of wildfire, hurricane, or other disaster seasons can make all the difference

🌅 Is there a right time to retire? Making sure that it's your choice and not driven by other things

Veterinary & Pet Company Share Prices

Prices as of noon GMT on Wednesday, 8 January 2025 - Source yahoo!finance

📱Join Our Social Media Veterinary Job Groups

Join 175,000+ Group Members and Page Followers!

PS - If this newsletter was forwarded to you and you want to receive your own, you can join our community here.

_{id: 2024-10-31-02:44:56:499t}