About Vet Coach

The VetCoach project is about sharing professional veterinary experience. The questions asked to the contributing veterinary authors were: 1. When you would be given a global vet students’ audience, based on your experience, what would you advise them about starting their career? 2. When you had a daughter or son graduating veterinary medicine today, what would you like to share with them? 3. What would you have like to know when you graduated that nobody told you? 4. What career mistakes would you avoid if you could do it again, and what decisions would you repeat the same way?

The transition from university (veterinary school) into a professional career is a major change for all of us and we have learned a lot since, sometimes the hard way. What is lacking at graduation causing a lot of discomfort and insecurity, is the lack of experience.

Later in life, after you have progressed well beyond that phase, did not you ever think: "It would have been great had I known this when I graduated", "if only I had known", "Why did nobody tell me this?" or "it would have been nice if I had access to this knowledge and wisdom when I started".

VetCoach is a non-for-profit project that makes over 3,500 years of experience of veterinarians from all over the world available to graduating veterinary students. VetCoach editions are adapted to the national, regional or continental back ground of students by adapting the panel of contributing authors. For the first Spanish book, authors from Spain were added to the original collection for the English edition. The Latin American edition will have about 50% of the authors born and or based in Latin America. The North American edition will have over 30% vets from the USA and Canada.

An international survey among students from 10 countries (June ‘09) showed overwhelming support by students for VetCoach: 98% of students consider the book a valuable resource, found contributions that were appealing to them and expect to still have the book in 5 years from now. Over 87% of respondents support the statement that they cannot think of a better gift at graduation! Verbatim statements confirm that the project addresses issues that are in the hearts and minds of graduating colleagues.

The vision of the VetCoach project can only become reality with the support of financial and logistic partners in the project. VetCoach is grateful to recognize the support to the first European English edition (2,500 books) by Hills Pet Nutrition (Europe) and Merial (EMEA), the first Spanish edition (3,000 books) by Merial Spain, and to the first Spanish Latin American edition (2,000 books) by Procter and Gamble LA, Iams & Eukanuba. VCA Animal Hospitals has adopted the first VetCoach NA edition 2010.

We invite companies to contact VetCoach to discuss opportunities to support future editions in order to reach the vision and get a book into the hand of every graduating veterinary student. Please contact us.

VetCoach is a non-for-profit project of Uppertunity Consultants: www.uppertunity.com