Business Management

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Dr. Todd lecturing

Course Overview

When running your own practice management skills can be as critical as clinical skills. Business Management for an Integrative Veterinary Practice is a course designed to introduce students to all aspects of managing their own integrative practice and developing their professional skills.

Students will learn from practice owners and managers with many years of experience how to organized staff, manage finances and client relationships, understand common legal issues, keep up in a changing marketplace and more while running their individual practices with the maximum efficiency and profitability. The course is presented in 15 online lectures with course notes, slides and quizzes. This course has been approved for 15 hours of CE credit by RACE.

This course is not limited to veterinarians only and is open to practice managers as well.

Major Topics

Overview (Administration, Personnel, Public Relations, etc.)
The Veterinary Marketplace
Client relationships
Effective Communication
Finance Management
Cash Management
Human Resources
Marketing
Operations
Technology
Administrative Management
Safety
Legal Issues
Using your Facility to Improve your Practice

Course Objectives

The products his or her practice produces and how to exchange with the public for these products
The changing market place for veterinary practice
Client relationships and the mechanics of communicating with clients, colleagues and staff
The important aspects of finances in the veterinary practice
Some basic ideas regarding finding, hiring, firing and keeping staff as well as discovering how to make staff feel invested in the practice
How to manage cash and make it work for the practice
The basics of marketing an integrative practice
Some of the key concepts of operations in a veterinary practice
How to organize and structure a practice to operate efficiently and profitably