You can think of a bunch of things that make your working day (and career!) as a veterinarian more frustrating than you’d like it to be, right? But have you ever considered the role of the software that you use in how frazzled you feel at the end of the day? And beyond the pure frustration of ‘too many clicks’ and that spinning wheel of doom when you have ten other things to do - have you considered how the very software that feels like it's holding you back could actually help solve some of the...
Jul 23, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 144
I’m never excited when I diagnose a cat with anaemia: vague signs, confusing diagnostics, and what feels like a not-so-great prognoses. But are they really that hopeless? In this episode, feline medicine specialist Dr Rachel Korman joins us demystify the anaemic cat and offer a clear, practical diagnostic framework that will give you more confidence and better outcomes the next time you see a cat with a low PCV. Some highlights from this conversation: A step-by-step approach to categorising anae...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
🎙️ Introducing the Veterinary Business Accelerator , our new podcast for veterinary practice owners who want more than just survival - they want to own the practice they dreamed of when they first decided to start a practice - a place that gives them joy and freedom, and where other vets like to work. In this brand-new series, vet business coach, author, and former Vet Vault guest Dr. Sam Bowden shares the mindset, strategies, and systems he’s used to help hundreds of practice owners transform ...
Jun 20, 2025•41 min
What’s your least favourite part of being a vet? Is it talking about money? In this episode, we take on one of the most emotionally charged parts of veterinary life: discussing high-cost treatments with clients . Our guest is Dr. Bing Zhu , a Small Animal Medicine Specialist from SASH, who’s had these conversations more times than she can count, and she shares her hard-earned wisdom on how to approach these conversations with empathy, clarity, and confidence. Here’s what we unpack: The emotional...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Telemedicine. What’s your gut reaction when you hear that term?Maybe you think it was just a clever COVID workaround, or second-rate substitute for a “real” vet visit. Or maybe you’re a bit curious about what it’s like to work in telemedicine— but you’re worried it’ll be boring. Or worse: that you’ll spend your days diagnosing lizards over Zoom. Whatever you think— chances are, you’re wrong. But don’t worry. This episode will change that. We go deep on the real-world pros and cons of telemedicin...
May 14, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 142
In this solo episode Hugh tackles a bold idea: if you're not currently using AI in your clinical veterinary work, you may be falling behind. And if/when artificial intelligence gets to the point where it reliably has access to all the most up to date information for managing your patients, will you be negligent if you DON’T use it? Hubert shares how artificial intelligence is quietly but powerfully reshaping veterinary practice. He paints a vivid picture of an AI-powered clinic, shows you practi...
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Join us for the Vet Vault's own conference in the snow: Vets On Tour Wānaka , New Zealand, 10-15 August 2025! Have you ever felt pressured, as a vet, to do more 'stuff' - diagnostics, procedures, and sell more, even when you can’t quite see the clinical justification for it? In this episode we welcome Dr. Brennen McKenzie -veterinarian, researcher, creator of the SkeptVet blog , author of Placebos for Pets? The Truth About Alternative Medicine in Animals, and all-round lover of science-based...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Veterinary practice can be unpredictable, exhausting, and full of interruptions - not that conducive to getting things done, right? But what if you could handle it all with mind-like-water calm? In this episode I pick the brain of productivity legend David Allen , creator of Getting Things Done (GTD) , to show you exactly how. This isn’t about squeezing more into your day — it’s about cutting mental clutter, regaining focus, and feeling in control , even when it all hits the fan.You'll learn sim...
Mar 21, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 139
“Did you know the AVMA doesn’t actually require a residency to become a specialist?” Yeah, neither did we—until Dr. Matt Booth dropped that fact-bomb. And it’s bigger than just an interesting fact - it’s a mindset shift that cracks the door wide open to alternative routes to specialisation —for veterinarrians who want to grow their careers, but can’t jump through the hoops of the traditional residency pathway. So, if you are: - Ambitious, but feeling a bit stuck - Limited by the realities of lif...
Mar 02, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Most vets believe it’s inevitable—on average, they leave Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) after just 3-5 years. The obvious culprit? Shift work, right? But what if that’s just scratching the surface? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Matt Booth , ER Practice Development Lead at Ethos Veterinary Health, to break down surprising findings from his survey of 3,500 emergency veterinarians. Together, we explore the Five Buckets of Retention—the REAL factors that determine whether your career in em...
Feb 15, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Try our AI Blood Gas Assistant here Are you wasting hours on outdated study methods like cramming and re-reading—only to forget everything by exam day? You might be studying wrong—and Dr. Matt Hollindale is here to help you fix that so you can learn smarter, not harder. When preparing for his ECC Membership exams, Dr. Matt became obsessed with the science of study. The result? He achieved the top marks of the 2023 cohort. Now, he’s applying the same methods to his residency training and sharing ...
Jan 27, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Lift your clinical game with our RACE-approved clinical podcasts at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team of specialists in our Specialist Support Space . Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for Hubert's favourite clinical and non-clinical learnings from the week. Do you ever feel just... flat? Not inspired, not excited, and certainly not energised. It might f...
Jan 07, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Hands up if you feel truly valued and respected at work. In this episode, we dig deep into what truly makes employees feel valued and how leaders can create workplaces that people never want to leave. Spoiler: It’s not just about pay, pizza parties, or avoiding toxic behaviour. We’re aiming much higher! Why You Should Listen Workplaces that crack the code of real team respect and value don’t just retain their talent — they thrive. Whether you’re a team leader or an employed vet, this episode is ...
Dec 22, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Get the show notes for this episode, plus a very neat treatment guide for hyperkalaemia, here. Join our community of Vet Vault Nerds to lift your clinical game and get your groove back with our up-to-date, easy-to-consume clinical episodes at vvn.supercast.com . Get help with your tricky cases in our Specialist Support Space. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here for Hubert's favourite clinical and non-clinical lear...
Dec 09, 2024•28 min
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team of specialists in our Specialist Support Space . Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here for Hubert's favourite clinical and non-clinical learnings from the week. “This is not a women's issue: this is a societal issue. We...
Nov 29, 2024•53 min•Season 131Ep. 133
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team of specialists in our Specialist Support Space . What if you asked the head of a famous business school for some veterinary business advice, but instead of telling you about a new system to increase productivity or s...
Nov 14, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team of specialists in our Specialist Support Space . If you scroll through any veterinary chat group you won’t have to scroll for long before you see a conversation along the lines of: “My career as it is now isn’t...
Oct 29, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 131
If you work in emergency practice, or you're considering it, then this episode is for you. Dr Brooke Schampers and Dr Taleta Hompas are ECC veterinarians with more than two decades experience between them who create resources and coach others on how to thrive as an ECC shift worker through there EMV4Life program. In this episode they will tell you: How to better structure your shifts to optimise for sleep and health. How to navigate the swing between night and day shift. How Taleta manag...
Oct 06, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team at specialists in our Specialist Support Space . Topics and Time Stamps We love to hear from you. If you have a question for us or you’d like to give us some feedback please get in touch via our contact from at thev...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 127
et access to our clinical podcast series with our 30% off IVECCS Special. Get case support from our team at specialists in our Specialist Support Space . Hands up if you still remember much of the statistics you learned back in vet school… Some of us have looked at way more P nappies than p-values since our student days! But this is veterinary SCIENCE after all, and part of science is reading the occasional paper. Reading papers—beyond just the abstract and the conclusions—and wi...
Sep 11, 2024•30 min
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient outcomes, or check out our Advanced Surgery Podcast at cutabove.supercast.com . Get case support from our team at specialists in our Specialist Support Space . Contact Credabl for questions and help around personal and professional finance for medical professionals, and apply for their $10000 Helping Hands Business grant here . If ...
Sep 01, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 128
You’ll hear a lot of complaining and blaming of leaders for everything that’s wrong with veterinary science. But the reality is that leading people is a very hard job, especially in a profession as complicated and nuanced as veterinary science. So this episode is for our leaders. We hope that it helps make your job of making our profession better just a little bit easier. David Liss is the Director of West Coast Operations for Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG), and in this episode he’ll tell you ...
Aug 20, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 101
In a world of Amazon and Uber-level convenience, where digital disruptors are changing the way the world interacts and how we do business, why do we think that the vet profession won't be impacted? "We're facing a lot of disruption. There is this class of digital disruptive dis-intermediators that are emerging and trying to displace the position of the veterinary clinic. Many of them explicitly have the mission to become the most trusted, most convenient touch point in the pet care journey." Dr ...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Ah, those liver enzymes... sometimes they are up when you don't expect them to be. Sometimes they're up a bit... but not that much, so you don't know if it's actually significant. Or sometimes they're way out of whack, but you're not sure what that means exactly, or what to do next. In this episode, Small Animal Medicine Specialist, RCVS Course Director and clinical reasoning guru Prof Jill Maddison helps us take a fresh look at liver enzymes. We review what each enzyme tells us in dogs and in c...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr
Be part of the conversation to help shape the Vet Vault with your feedback . Many of us dream of building a practice, and then one day selling it and walking off into the sunset, minus responsibilities, and with our money problems solved. But what actually happens after what’s supposed to be ‘the big goal’? Who are you when you’re no longer the boss, and what’s next? In this episode, Dr Wolfgang Dohne tells us how he re-invented and reinvigorated his career post the sale of his practice. He al...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 125
This little bonus episode is for a very select audience of brave souls who have already completed the written part of their Australia New Zealand College Of Veterinary Scientists membership exams, and are due to sit oral exams in a few week’s time. It's made from snippets of conversation about how to get into the right head space for the oral exams, with tips on last minute preparation, and what to expect in the actual exam. Our guests are specialist surgeons and former examiners Dr Chris Tan an...
Jun 19, 2024•13 min
If you clicked on this episode, then I’m guessing that you already know WHAT the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists membership exams are. Maybe you’re considering sitting them, or perhaps you’ve already put your hand up for 2025, but you still have so many questions. Like, how much time would I need to commit, how much study is required each week, HOW hard is it actually, WHAT do I need to study, and how do I set myself up for success? Should I do a course, how do I util...
Jun 19, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Have you ever considered doing something other than clinical veterinary practice, only to get stuck at 'but what else could I do? The only skill I have is fixing sick animals!' Dr Steph Morley will show how how wrong you are. You'll learn how the skills and attributes that make you a good vet are highly valued outside of the vet clinic, and how to re-write your CV to make it applicable to any industry. And if you're not considering leaving practice - great! This conversation will help you better...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 133
You know that conversation that you have with your client when you first diagnose congestive heart failure in their mitral valve disease dog? The one where you say: 'This will be the thing that kills your pet.' Well, that conversation is changing. Veterinary cardiologists Dr Brad Gavaghan and Dr Fiona Meyers introduce us to TEER (Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair), a minimally invasive procedure that can completely change the outcome for your mitral valve patients. In this episode they explain h...
May 27, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 117
It’s the topic in veterinary science that we wish we didn’t have to talk about. Every time we hear about another veterinary suicide, we feel sad, angry, and frustratingly powerless. But in this conversation with Dr. Kat Williams and Dr. Alena Gadoury, you’ll be inspired to take back the power to act against this curse of our profession. Drs. Kat and Alena are the founders of VetHerd , an industry-based suicide prevention program for the veterinary profession. VetHerd utilizes the collective powe...
May 20, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 116
