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Veterinary medicine is changing and growing, and Colorado State University's top-ranked College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is changing, too, with the future of the profession in mind. Veterinary health complex The new veterinary health complex, expected to break ground early next year and be completed in phases through 2028, will transform the CSU South Campus as the site of professional training for all DVM students. [Extracted from the article]

Bringing new veterinarians into your practice may seem fairly straightforward. Encourage your staff to do their own personal promotion of the new veterinarian with current clients, people in the neighborhood and their own family members. Though it may seem a duplication of effort and a loss of potential income, consider having a new large animal vet ride with one of the other vets for a few days. [Extracted from the article]

Highlights from the article: Unless you work in a university doing surgeries, the likelihood is you spend some time driving from one location to another to do vet work. As a 2015 AVMA and AABP survey of bovine veterinarians found that 74.3% of veterinarians reported farm calls amounted to less than 10% of their gross revenue, we aren't looking to make a fortune off farm calls.

Highlights from the article: In many ways it was not an unusual path upward for Dr. Helen Philips, owner of Philips Veterinary Hospital in Brenham, Texas, until she bought a practice that didn't have enough room for her business. Dr. Philips now has two veterinarians working with her: Dr. Brandon Schulte and Dr. Brooke Eckermann Mueller.