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Missouri vet school offers clinical pathology residents a concurrent Master of Education degree
The University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine partnered with the College of Education to let clinical pathology residents pursue a Master of Education degree during their residency.
3 min read · Sep 9
The fellowship that pays you to practice community vet med, and what it doesn't pay for
Financial support through school and four years in practice. The source doesn't name comp structure or debt payoff.
4 min read · Aug 24
The vet tech program number nobody hiring right now is checking
84% of vet tech programs hold full accreditation. The other 16% hold initial, probationary, or terminal status, and you can't tell from the résumé.
3 min read · Aug 11
NC State Just Got $2.5M to Train Ph.D.s Nobody's Hiring For
NC State's renewed NIH grant trains interdisciplinary researchers, not the associates practices are trying to hire.
3 min read · Aug 11
The career fair your competitor showed up to six months before you posted the job
You can't out-pay the panic hire. But you can out-recruit it, starting at the vet tech program down the road.
4 min read · Aug 7
Roo Just Put a Number on Every Relief Shift You Couldn't Fill
Analytics Center turns logged relief coverage into fill rates, cancellation patterns, and site-level gaps you can act on.
4 min read · Jul 30
Your CE Hours Might Not Count. Here Is How to Check.
State boards do not share a rulebook on continuing education, and a hallway certificate from a sponsor booth is not automatically the same thing as a credit your license renewal will accept.
4 min read · Jul 28
Burnout by the Numbers: What the 18 Percent Actually Looks Like
The Merck Animal Health-AVMA Wellbeing Study switched to a validated burnout instrument in 2023, and the new granularity shows work-life balance beating income as the strongest predictor of who is running on empty.
5 min read · Jul 28
The Debt-to-Income Number Your Signing Bonus Won't Fix
AVMA's own senior survey puts the class of 2025 at $1.40 of debt for every dollar of starting salary, and that ratio rarely shows up next to the salary line in a recruiting pitch.
4 min read · Jul 28
Reading a Corporate Offer Like You Owe $212,499
Corporate groups out-bid independents on the signing bonus line almost every time, but the number that decides your first three years is buried in the compensation formula, not the headline offer.
5 min read · Jul 28