Student Loans and COVID-19

If you have been tuning in to the news lately, there has been a lot of discussion regarding student loans, which is something that directly impacts the veterinary community. The VIN Foundation is here to update and inform you. Check out this link to learn more!

COVID19 Tips from Illinois SAVMA

Some members of the Illinois SAVMA Executive Board put together an incredible infographic with different tips and tricks on how to stay on a schedule and keep busy during this crazy time. Below, you will find some highlights from this infographic.

Send us any tips and ticks that you have to savma.editor@gmail.com to be featured on the Vet Gazette!

What do you need to know about working during COVID-19

Check out the podcast to learn more Dr. Jen and Dr. Jason Chatfield are joined by employment attorney, Omar A. Lopez, of the Lopez Firm to discuss how pet care business owners and their employees can deal during the next two weeks. How can small business owners protect their business? How can employees make money when they aren't able to work? What happens when employees get sick? How can veterinarians continue to provide services to their clients?   Listen now: Vet Candy Podcast

How to Remain Positive in this Pandemic

Despite all the memes cirulating around trying to make light of the situation, this is an extremely difficult time for everyone right now. Students are being forced to move home, white coat ceremonies and commencement ceremonies are being cancelled left and right. People's lives are in danger. It seems almost impossible to find positivity in such a dark time.

AVMA recorded a bonus episode of My Veterinary Life Podcast w/Dr. Jen Brandt, AVMA’s Director of Member Wellbeing.

This is focused on *wellbeing during the COVID outbreak*.

She shares some great insights and fantastic ideas to promote wellbeing, beyond hand washing and social distancing, during this time of uncertainty.

 Take some time to listen to it, and let us here at the Vet Gazette know what you are doing to stay positive! We would love to share your stories!

#bettertogether

Help fill out this survey - Research on Environmental Sustainability

Hi everyone! My name is Stephanie Schiavone, and I am a 2nd year DVM student at Colorado State University. Last semester I joined a class that actually turned out to be an amazing way for myself and several other students to get our feet in the door with research. Our class mentor, Dr. Colleen Duncan, told us we should seek out a sustainability project we are passionate about. All of us decided on sending out a survey to every AVMA accredited veterinary school with an associated teaching hospital on environmental sustainability in the workplace. The survey is designed to target all employees and students who are undergoing clinical rotations. Our goals for this project are to discover where within the hospital there was a lot of non-sustainable waste being produced and how to better address it to see where changes can be made. Our hope with this study is to publish it to JVME so that we can start to make more sustainable changes in our hospitals and design a better future for ourselves, our furry companions, and our non-furry companions. I hope you can help me by taking 10 minutes out of your day to take this survey. Thank you all so much! 

https://tinyurl.com/VTHSustainability 

sschiavo@colostate.edu