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The Business Side of Veterinary Medicine: What Veterinary Schools Don't Teach You

by M. Duffy Jones

Business skills for a veterinary career

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Business skills for a veterinary career

M. Duffy Jones’s guide addresses the practical business responsibilities that accompany veterinary work, from the transition out of training to the possibility of building a practice. Its scope extends beyond early-career concerns: the book covers accounting and corporate finance, business law, operations, communication, organizational behavior, and strategy, alongside planning for career longevity, retirement, and net worth. The emphasis is on connecting professional decisions—such as practice models and financial planning—with the broader course of a veterinary career. It offers a business-focused complement to the clinical knowledge veterinarians develop in school.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Veterinarians moving from training into professional practice
  • Veterinary professionals considering practice ownership or management
  • Veterinarians seeking guidance on finances, career planning, or retirement

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Veterinary practice managementFinance and business planningProfessional transitionsCareer longevity and retirement

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Book overview

So you're a practicing veterinarian, with a mind filled with the science of veterinary medicine. But there's a business side to veterinary medicine you were not taught in school, and it is relevant at every stage of your career.

Just starting out? This book is essential to transitioning from your training to "the real world." It offers practical advice on crossing that bridge, including key ways to establish good citizenship in your new environment and guidance for building your own practice. Do you know how to manage and plan your finances and think about the future? Have you chosen the right practice model for you and your family? This book will help you answer these and other questions and establish good habits that will benefit your entire career.

But this is by no means a "newbie manual." It gives a masters-level education on the business side of things that affect every practicing vet, new blood and veteran alike: accounting and corporate finance, business law, operations management, business communication, organizational behavior, strategy, and much more. Not to mention guidance on career longevity, planning for retirement, and increasing your net worth. This book truly is a business manual for your entire career in veterinary medicine.

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