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.
When You Need Help Now
You are a valued member of our veterinary community. If you’re struggling, here’s the phone number to get help immediately.
If you or someone you know might be in crisis, please get help immediately. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 from anywhere in the U.S. to talk with a trained crisis counselor.
Helping Your Peers
Wellness gatekeeper training can be a critical tool to save lives—and it’s available free of charge to SAVMA members.
Get Trained to Identify and Refer At-Risk Peers
Learn how to recognize signs that someone may be considering suicide and guide them to seek professional help. This training is not a substitute for professional assistance, but it can be a critical tool to save lives. Requires AVMA login.
Wellbeing 101
Self-care is as important as knowing the differential diagnoses for polyuria/polydipsia.
Start your professional wellbeing journey now, with the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Assessment.
Self-care is about making daily choices that support all dimensions of your personal wellbeing. Don’t let it take a back seat during veterinary school.
Support Your Wellbeing by Understanding Your Mind and Cultivating Mindsight
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.
Student Work-Life Integration
Your personal life and work (as a student) have to be well integrated in order to succeed during these rigorous years.
Practical Tips for Stress
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.
Now you get to learn from living, breathing patients. There’s more at stake. That means your wellbeing just became even more important, too. Check out these essential self-care tips to ensure you’re providing the best patient care possible.
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.