Veterinary

Based on our research with over 850 relief or locum veterinarians around the world, these are the three primary reasons why veterinarians are choosing relief or locum work as their preferred way to earn a living…Flexibility, Variety and Quality of Life. Of course, there are more, but essentially you want to choose when and where you work, you are looking to keep on your professional toes through experiencing different hospitals and clinics, and you want the power to decide when you work, when you play and when you can take some downtime to recharge. In an ideal world, wouldn’t we all like to spend three months employed by a leading clinic in London, four weeks exploring our favorite vacation spots in Asia, and a month working part-time while skiing in Canada, followed by three months soaking in the California vibe? Perhaps you simply want more control over your schedule so you can spend more time with your kids, write that book you have always been putting off, or you want to be entrepreneurial. You might just thrive on variety, enjoy meeting fellow industry professionals, or want to broaden your experience and expertise. Whatever the reason, all is possible if you’re a professional, full-time Locum Relief Veterinarian. Ready? Good. Now, here are 10 crucial tips to smooth your transition…

Improving your wellbeing is not as simple as taking a week-long holiday at a health spa, or simply getting more exercise and improving your diet. Though all of these are important to Veterinary Wellbeing (and we’d like to justify our own annual spa retreats too), stress management and mental health care require fundamental changes to our daily lives. Remember that you deserve to nurture yourself to the same degree that you look after your patients. How do you cope when you are being pulled in so many directions, mentally as well as physically? Here are some essential first steps…

So, why is it important that you continue to learn in veterinary medicine? Before you know it, you’ll be 5 years post-matriculation from veterinary school or veterinary nursing school. Then 10. Then 15 – it flies by! And with that, comes the newest veterinary updates out there. New drugs. New parasicitides. New diseases. You have to not only just keep up with these innovations and protocols, you have to get ahead of them in order to deliver best practice Veterinary Medicine. That’s why you need to love to learn and learn to live in #vetmed.