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The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

by Dr. Hubert Hiemstra

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About the show

The Vet Vault is a veterinary podcast for vets and vet students covering career growth, clinical medicine, leadership, and mental health and wellbeing across the veterinary profession. Vet life can be tough, but it's also good - so how do we make it even better? Host Dr Hubert Hiemstra brings honest, curious, occasionally irreverent conversations with the people making vet med better. Clinical CPD, careers, wellbeing, and the tech changing how we practise. Come fall back in love with veterinary science. Find show notes, clinical CE and the newsletter at thevetvault.com.

Latest episodes

169: Exceptional Vet, Mediocre Pay: If I'm So Busy, Why Can't I Earn More? With Dr Andy Roark

September 29, 2026 · 59 min

Why does a vet who's flat out every single day still hit a pay ceiling? Dr Andy Roark explains the hidden economics of veterinary practice, and an uncomfortable truth: the thing that makes us good vets might be the same thing holding our…
168: You're Doing Feedback Wrong. With Dr Olivia Oginska

September 17, 2026 · 52 min

Ask most vets what feedback means, and they'll think of a meeting. Once a year - maybe someone explaining that you're not billing enough. Dr Liv Oginska reckons that meeting is barely feedback at all. Because real feedback is happening all…
167: Space Plus People Equals Place: 5 Common Practice Design Mistakes to Avoid. With Jerry Kennard

September 2, 2026 · 45 min

What if the thing making your working day harder isn’t the workload? What if it's the building? In this episode we're joined by Jerry Kennard from ⁠Evoke Projects⁠, someone who designs veterinary spaces for a living and has watched a lot…
166: It's Not Burnout. It's Fear. Dr Sarah Golding on vet burnout, imposter syndrome and getting your confidence back

August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

Everyone says burnout. But Dr Sarah Golding thinks a lot of us are misdiagnosing ourselves. When vets come to her ready to walk away from the profession, they arrive with a vocabulary: burnt out, overwhelmed, imposter syndrome. Not one of…
165: Making Sense of IDEXX Cancer Dx - Canine Lymphoma Screening. With Dr Sandra Nguyen

August 10, 2026 · 27 min

I love any new tool that can make my life as a veterinarian easier and get better outcomes for my patients, so when I first heard about IDEXX's new CancerDx test I was excited, but I had questions! Like, how is a cancer screening test…
164: The Planes That Never Came Home: Inclusion, Retention and the Hidden Curriculum, with Dr Alex Harrison

July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

Most conversations about how to survive a veterinary career is a conversation with the survivors. We interview the vets who are still standing. The vets and nurses who left? Nobody interviews them. In this episode you’ll hear why we should…
163: Tech Tools for Vets 5: The Fix for Missed Billing, with SmartCapture

July 15, 2026 · 48 min

Think about the last thing you did at work and forgot to charge for. A nail clip. A blood test. A “quick” ultrasound that never made it onto the invoice. One missed charge feels insignificant. Across an entire clinic, it isn’t. (It’s…
162: Street Dogs, Brave Vetting, and the Double Life of Dr Janey Lowes

July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Twelve years ago, Dr Janey Lowes went to Sri Lanka on a holiday, and never really came home. Today she runs WECare Worldwide, a hospital that treats the island’s three million street dogs to a standard that you’d like your pet treated…