Prioritize Your Wellbeing
Health and wellbeing are essential components to a thriving, awesome you. Here are some resources to turn you around, lift you up and keep you afloat during your vet school years.
Health and wellbeing are essential components to a thriving, awesome you. Here are some resources to turn you around, lift you up and keep you afloat during your vet school years.
Wellness gatekeeper training can be a critical tool to save lives—and it’s available free of charge to SAVMA members.
Learn how you can recognize signs that someone may be considering suicide and guide them to seek professional help. This free training provided by the AVMA saves lives and is free to all veterinary students and veterinary professionals.
Self-care is as important as knowing the differential diagnoses for polyuria/polydipsia.
Listen to Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, keynote speaker at the 2016 AVMA Convention, to learn the connections between your mind and body as well as a simple breathing exercise proven to increase both physical and mental wellbeing. Requires AVMA login.
Your personal life and work (as a student) have to be well integrated in order to succeed during these rigorous years.
This webinar offers techniques you can use immediately to improve your wellbeing, plus long-term planning tips like how to craft a personal stress management plan. Requires AVMA login.
Sometimes the hardest part of a patient’s diagnosis is delivering the news to the client. The upside is that client communication is a procedure you can master and feel good about! In this brief article, learn how to use your words as medical tools and bond-builders with your clients.