To the Graduating class of 2021. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This week's episode is my letter to y'all as the graduating class. This last year has been anything but easy or routine, but you have persevered and on behalf of the veterinary profession, we are so excited for you to be joining us as veterinarians!

This first year in practice will likely be one of the most challenging, but exhilarating years of your career. Please know your colleagues and mentors are here to guide and support you as you grow and develop into the amazing veterinarians you are already on the road to becoming.

This Podcast has always been about YOU! and as such I would love to hear what sort of content you want to hear. Send me a DM on Instagram or Facebook, or through the contact form on thatvetlifepodcast.com to add your voice to the upcoming season.

In this week's episode of Skill Set I am joined by Dr. Lo Curtis to discuss the storytelling skills you can use when dealing with your neurology cases.

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Rather early on in the episode Lo and I decided we wanted to spend a bit more time talking on a topic that we are both very passionate about.

We start by addressing the challenges of establishing compliance from our clients. Lo states it beautifully that "most of the time, a lack of compliance comes from a lack of understanding and not for a lack of trying." Meaning that it's not usually the "fault" of the client when a treatment plan doesn't go the way we envisioned it.

Listen along as we discuss the problem we have seen on social media of not only client bashing, but fellow veterinarian bashing and the impact it is having on our profession.

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Dr. Lo Curtis is the host of Thrive DVM Podcast and is on a mission to connect other professional women with the tools and resources to fall deeply, madly in love with their own lives.

You can find out more at locurtis.com and on Instagram at @thrivedvmpodcast

In this week's episode I am joined by Dr. Sabrina Cooper @dr.sabrina.horse.vet as we talk about her transition from vet student to veterinarian and what this looked like through the lens of the internship she has undertaken in her first year out of vet school.

Despite the species differences between our paths in the profession, Sabrina and I talk about one of the challenges that all new grads working in clinical practice face....the challenge of learning and developing client communication skills i.e. storytelling skills. We talk about the fumbles we both experienced in our first client interactions and how we used those failures to develop successful skills and methods that we now use today. Through this discussion we brainstorm ways that vet school and vet students can work on honing these skills before graduating and how in their first jobs, new grads can advocate for better mentorship when talking about communication skills.

Follow Dr. Cooper's journey on Instagram @dr.sabrina.horse.vet and stay tuned for her website.

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