Initiating, Embracing and Implementing Innovation
EVENT DETAILS
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LECTURES
Keynote: Stop Bossing, Start Coaching!
Category 3 - Dr. Rob Trimble
A lecture in innovation as it relates to business leadership skills.
Rx For Patient Care: Effective Communication
Category 3 - Dr. Kristi Yee
Join Dr. Kristi Yee, owner of Hometown Veterinary Hospital, as she shares communication strategies utilized inside and outside of the exam room to optimize patient healthcare.
Discussions:
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Confidence and competence in your veterinary knowledge
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Comfort with conveying your veterinary knowledge to clients and team members
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Dealing with uncomfortable situations
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Professionalism in a social media age
Early Career Contract Negotiation
Category 2 - Dr. Annie Chavent
While they can be intimidating, contract negotiations are a crucial part of your professional growth. We will begin with showing why negotiation is so important to helping you lead the life you want inside and outside of veterinary practice. Then we will move into tactics for negotiations, demonstrating practical phrases and techniques that you can utilize and make your own.
From Ideas to Impact: Don’t be afraid to take the plunge
Category 2 - Dr. Diane Levitan
A lecture in innovation as it relates to business operations, management and ownership.
Keynote: Innovation in Career Planning for Veterinary Professionals
Category 4 - Dr. David Haworth
Veterinary Medicine is a career path overflowing with opportunities for world-changing, deeply impactful and life-fulfilling work, but so often these potential paths are lost in the sea of veterinary training. By becoming invested in the wrong path for your goals, or worse yet, despairing that there is no right path for you, we can quickly lose the passion that drove us to applying to vet school in the first place. In this presentation, Dr. Haworth will use his atypical career to help provide a framework for professionals early in their journey to better understand their own driving motivations and explore the full breadth of what could lie in their futures. What is it that you're seeking in a career after vet school? More training? Deep impact on individual animals? Broad impact on millions of animals? Financial security - sooner, rather than later? Location and work-life blend? All of those are possible, and in a style that has been described as "informative-enjoyable", he will attempt to help you plan a path towards your perfect spot in this veterinary world.
Practice Ownership in The Next Decade; Dead or Alive?
Category 1 - Dr. Jeff Rothstein
A lecture in innovation as it relates to business finance.
Open to Outcome, Clinical Medicine and a Startup Company
Category 4 - Dr. Ginny Rentko
In this session we will cover the story of two startups, clinical medicine and a career path options to satisfy curiosity and meld clinical medicine, drug development, academia and entrepreneurship.
Tele-health, One Veterinarian’s Journey Into The Virtual Exam Room
Category 2- Dr. Kimberly Pope-Robinson
Do you know the difference between tele-medicine, tele-health, tele-triage, and tele-advice? Until I started on the journey into the virtual exam room, I did not have a strong understanding of the differences between the 4. However, I recognized that all have been hot topics these past few years. Human medicine made the shift into the virtual exam years ago, and I figured it is probably only a matter of time to when we will see this more in veterinary medicine. Therefore, I decided to take the time to truly understand this space and then determine if I would provide care through a virtual platform. I had many questions, and wanted to understand the various aspects both legally and ethically. Over 8 months I learned a lot and this lecture will share not only what I learned, but also how and why I decided to provide care to clients virtually. In addition, I will share what I learned from providing care virtually to pets. I will share some case examples where I partnered with clients, and how these interactions help to solidify the value of the virtual connection when in person care is not available. From my experience I absolutely recognize that virtual care will not replace in person care, I do however now feel strongly on the value it can provide to both clients and their pets.
WORKSHOPS
Know Your Value: A Guide to Profit and Loss Statements
Category 1 - Dr. Dan Phillips
Do you understand all the benefits of working in a financially healthy practice or business? Do you know how to recognize the signs of a financially healthy practice vs one that may be struggling? In this interactive presentation, we review a variety of factors that can influence the financial statements of a veterinary practice. We discuss common benchmarks of success on a profit and loss statement and most importantly how the number on financial statements can impact the team around you as well as yourself regardless of whether you have are an owner or not.
Tact and Influence: An Emotionally Intelligent Approach to Fostering Innovation in the Early Veterinary Career
Category 3 - Dr. Ginger Templeton
When highly-skilled, intelligent individuals, such as early career veterinarians, join an established team, they bring fresh knowledge and cutting edge ideas. They are often eager to share their ideas and bring a new standard to their career. This enthusiasm may be met with similar enthusiasm and receptivity, but it can also be met with caution, reservation, and, in some cases, downright rejection.
The success of the new team member in implementing novel strategies will depend on:
(1) leadership’s receptivity (did they intentionally seek out an innovative new hire and are they humble enough to learn from this person)
(2) the existing team’s overall level of wellbeing and organizational psychological safety (are team members confident in their skills and curious to learn from a newer, possibly younger, team member) and,
(3) the communication skills, tact and emotional intelligence of the new team member.
While leadership receptivity and team dynamics are not entirely out of the new hire’s control -- they can be assessed during the hiring process – the third factor (communication skills) is the part of this equation the new team member can control. An overly eager new team member may be perceived as pushy, arrogant, or even naïve. A team member who is too reserved may be perceived to have low investment or lack ideas. Fortunately, emotional intelligence and confident communication of ideas can be cultivated and improved upon.
In this two-hour, highly interactive workshop, participants will:
(1) Identify their core values to understand why they value innovation in veterinary medicine
(2) Learn the 12 subdomains of emotional intelligence and identify which of these subdomains are important in promoting innovation in their future veterinary roles
(3) Use the Thomas-Killman conflict resolution model to understand their personal preferences around conflict and best approaches to introducing innovative concepts when they are likely to be met with conflict
Bouncing into Our Resiliency
Category 4 - Dr. Kimberly Pope-Robinson
Somewhere in the path of our career in veterinary medicine many of us question why we entered this profession. Finding ourselves in a place of burn out, compassion fatigue, ethical fatigue, distress, or just plain tired. Call it whatever you want, if you have found yourself in this space, you are not alone. We each enter this profession with high hopes and dreams. We have this idealistic vision of what we can accomplish, knowing that it won’t be all puppies and kittens. We are fully aware there will be death and heart ache, and yet we enter into the field with much excitement and vision. Along the way we start to lose our steam and many find ourselves wishing we didn’t enter this field. Yet we don’t want to leave due to that inner pull that brought us here in the first place. At this point we look for our resilience, or our BOUNCE. That direction that helps us reconnect with ourselves and find our direction again. We each have our own direction in this journey, our personal BOUNCE. Learning the BOUCNE framework will help us find our own resiliency. Learning these ideas will assist all us in beginning our own direction of our BOUNCE. B – Become Aware O – Our Choice U – Unique Journey N – Navigate the Pain C – Connected as One E – Embrace All. Learning Objectives • Understand the idea behind how we bounce into resiliency within our careers of vet med. • Define the idealistic vision of what many of us carry into beginning a career in vet med. • Begin the path in helping to understand our personal bounce within our career. • Provide clarity in helping us each reconnect to our passion as we navigate the challenges of the vet industry.
NETWORKING EVENTS
HAPPY HOUR
Join us Friday evening as we kick off the Summit Weekend with a casual, virtual networking event! Innovative solutions are built around connection and discussion, but this can be challenging to foster as students in an academically demanding field. So, give yourself a weekend, or even just an evening, grab yourself a drink and hop onto Remo to learn first hand from accomplished veterinary professionals in our field. We hope to create a casual and inviting networking space for students to interact with professionals in our field and ask questions related to their future career, business and innovation! The format will take place similar to round tables, with students cycling every fifteen minutes or so between tables.
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SPEED NETWORKING
As VBMA members, we understand the power of networking: It opens countless doors of opportunity, refines the communication skills necessary to propel our careers forward, and establishes us as leaders in our community. Yet the emerging virtual era doesn’t have to deprive you of these vital opportunities: join us in this session where participants will have the opportunity to engage one-on-one with multiple prominent field leaders for roughly five minutes at a time. Please come with questions in mind related to the world of veterinary business, the changing field, or your unique career path and be prepared to create meaningful connections with individuals in the veterinary community who have the experience and knowledge to empower you to get a head start in your career. (Note in the event of a surplus of students, interactions may be adapted to a few-on-one.) This event will mimic "speed-dating," prompting students to visit new professionals every 10 minutes or so.
ENERGIZERS
YOGA
Led by Sydney Matuszak.
ZUMBA
Led by Michele Tabaroki.