In this episode, our host Xavier talks with Erin Spencer from the USA, Julie Hutt from New Zealand and Rachel Lumbis from UK about various topics relating to not only the role of veterinary nurses and technicians (and if there even a difference?) but also the importance of team work approach. This vast international panel discusses the wide encompassing role nurses play in patient care, the recognition lacking to the nurses and technicians supporting work,  the difference between veterinary...

Meet Dr Nalinika Obeyesekere, a veterinarian who is passionate about animal behaviour education and started the first veterinary hospital in Sri Lanka.  She talks to our host, Xavier, about evolution of companion animal medicine in Sri Lanka over the last 20 years. She was met with scepticism when she, and 2 other female veterinarians, started a veterinary hospital focussing on companion animals only but now the demand for companion animal veterinarians is higher than the...

In this episode, Dr Jean Gauvin talks with our host, Xavier, about telemedicine and what place it currently has and may have in the future in the veterinary profession. Due to the global pandemic, telemedicine has quickly become a part of many veterinary practices and it looks like it is here to stay.   Dr Gauvin talks about telehealth, telemedicine, telemonitoring, teletriage: tele tele tele! However, many vets may not be aware they have always done some for of telemedicine in their clinic,...

In this episode, our host talks to Dr Ellen van Nierop, the WSAVA Vice President. She is originally Dutch, was born in Pakistan, lived all over the world while growing  up, studied in Belgium and now runs her companion animal clinic in Quito,...

Dr Brian Jochems talks to our host, Xavier Canavilhas, about his recent career switch to working as a full time mobile veterinarian for an in home euthanasia service (Lap of Love). He describes the intimacy of the process at home, the comfort it can...

In the third episode, Dr Monique Megens talks to our host, Xavier Canavilhas, about the complex issue of international puppy trade.They discuss how international puppy trade is regulated but not consistently enforced and the welfare of the dogs is not...

A day in the life of Siraya Chunekamrai, the first female president of the WSAVA.In this episode, Siraya shares her journey in the veterinary profession, from wanting to be an animal doctor as a small child to becoming an equine surgeon and opening the...

In this first episode, our host Xavier Canavilhas is in conversation with Dr Paulo Steagall, Co-Chair of the WSAVA Therapeutics Guidelines Group, about the creation of the first Essential Medicines List for Cats and Dogs.  The List aims to tackle...