Call for participants: Engaging your veterinary technicians

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AVMA-funded research exploring how practices can better leverage their veterinary technicians’ full skillset is entering a new phase, and researchers are looking for practices to sign up as study participants.

Participation requires a few hours’ time commitment from team members and will provide your practice with solutions to aid employee retention and boost practice efficiency.

What does participation look like? 

Practices that volunteer will be asked to have their business manager, veterinarians, and veterinary technicians complete a series of brief surveys over several months beginning in January 2025. The total time commitment from each employee will be 1-2 hours for the entire project. 

In return, participants will receive a report that aggregates the study’s findings and provides recommendations for how your practice can more fully engage your veterinary technicians’ skills and training. 

Get started

Participating in the study can unlock valuable information for your clinic while also contributing to our profession’s efforts to more fully engage veterinary technicians in our practices. To participate, fill out this survey no later than December 1, 2024. If you have questions about the study, kmccullockatavma [dot] org (email AVMA Chief Economist Katelyn McCullock)

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About the study

The study represents the second phase of work being done by researchers at Cornell University to identify practical ways for clinics to take greater advantage of veterinary technicians’ education and skills. 

The first research phase asked veterinary technicians to what extent they felt qualified to perform certain tasks and whether they had opportunities to engage with those tasks. Preliminary findings showed interesting patterns: Some respondents said they aren’t given the opportunity to use skills they have, while others reported being assigned tasks they didn’t feel qualified to perform.

Read more about the first phase of research in this news report: Veterinary profession can thrive with some reimagination.

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