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The one supplier trait that still decides the formulary callThe fellowship that pays you to practice community vet med, and what it doesn't pay forThe psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectationsThe rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K callThe surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trialThe venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn'tThe 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triageThe ear-infection study that drops the antibioticThe one supplier trait that still decides the formulary callThe fellowship that pays you to practice community vet med, and what it doesn't pay forThe psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectationsThe rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K callThe surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trialThe venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn'tThe 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triageThe ear-infection study that drops the antibiotic

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01 · Trade Press

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

02 · Trade Press

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

03 · Trade Press

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

04 · Trade Press

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

05 · Trade Press

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

06 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

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

07 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

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

08 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

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

09 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

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