Vet Coach

VetCoach book is a non-for-profit project that collects “career reflections” of veterinary professionals around the world. The contributing colleagues donate their time to share their professional insights with graduating students, as a gift “from the current generation to the next one”. They all answered the question: “what would you have liked to know when you graduated, that might benefit students graduating today”? In the first year the project has exceeded all expectations.

 

The purpose of the VetCoach books is to support young veterinary professionals entering the profession. Based on 2,524 years of experience the first English VetCoach edition of the book published in April 2009, presents the results of some serious thinking by 91 veterinarians (16 female and 75 male) from 25 countries, in all kinds of full and part-time positions. The first Spanish edition (May 2009) was based on over 2,750 years and by November 2010 the VetCoach project  VetCoach is based on over 3,500 years of professional experience. In April 2010 the Latin American and a second European edition in English became available. The book features 108 authors (m 76 fem 32) from 29 countries. In December 2010 the North American edition will be added. There are 108 authors (m 66 fem 42) from 25 countries. The Brazilian edition will be published in  2011. Among the authors you will find clinicians (in small and large clinics or hospitals), researchers, university professors, as well as colleagues working in industry in a wide variety of different roles ranging from the lower management levels to the very top executives.

 

The vision of the VetCoach project is to motivate and inspire veterinary students around the world by making an edition of this book available to them at or before the time of graduation. The VetCoach project will be successful when a young colleague makes a career decision that she or he would not have considered without being touched by one or more of the stories in a VetCoach book.

In this website you can find the list of authors for each of the 5 books by clicking the cover image in the right hand column. You can read how to order books and support the project and you can find photos of contributing veterinarians and some examples of VetCoach contributions from the various editions

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For questions about the VetCoach project, please contact VetCoach.

The VetCoach mission and vision cannot be reached without the support by sponsoring companies and individuals: Hill's Pet Nutrition, Merial, P&G - Eukanuba, VCA Animal Hospitals, Welzo - Over Dieren - 't Hart Communications.