January 2025 – Access to vet care

Spectrum of Care – How to redefine gold standard in veterinary medicine?

At the beginning of the year – (end of Jan still counts as beginning of the year, right?) we are often faced with a question like:

What was your biggest takeaway or learning from the previous year?
What did you learn in the previous year that you want to take with you to the new year?

I have seen questions like that coming up multiple times on my social media feeds as well as in the new planner-cum-journal I got for myself. When it comes to my profession, I have a clear answer to that question:

Spectrum of Care and its application in veterinary medicine.

By Dr. Ilona Otter / January 30, 2025 / 7 minutes of reading

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Happy New Year – Are You Ready to Get Off the Starting Line?

For over 15 years through my work with WVS, I have been involved in programs that focus on guiding and coaching veterinarians in India in basic surgical and anesthesia skills. My goal has never been to make them the world’s best neurosurgeons (as if I would be even qualified for that!!!) but to get them off the starting line—to instill in them the belief that they can perform surgery and, with consistent effort, continue to improve. With a foundation in surgery, anesthesia, and analgesia, a world of possibilities in clinical veterinary medicine opens up.