AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich is joined by three veterinarians from Heritage Veterinary Partners, Dr. Luke Strehle, Dr. Tera Barnhardt and Dr. Dan Cummings. Cummings also serves as the AABP Membership Committee chair. This episode is sponsored by Heritage Veterinary Partners, a community of rural mixed animal and food animal veterinarians. Find out more information about Heritage Veterinary Partners at this link. 

Rural veterinary practice can be isolating, especially for recent graduates who have built a community network of colleagues while in school. Providing opportunities for networking with other veterinarians can overcome the challenges of isolation for rural veterinarians. Cummings discusses a paper published in the Bovine Practitioner which was a qualitative analysis of experiences of recent graduates and how Heritage Veterinary Partners has used these assessments to build a community across their practice groups.

We also discussed the HPAI H5N1 disease outbreak in dairy cattle. Barnhardt and Strehle discuss how they worked within their practice group as well as how they managed this disease for their clients. Gingrich reminds our listeners that there is a dedicated webpage for AABP members with links and information on this outbreak. 

Visit Heritage Veterinary Partners in the exhibit hall at the 57th AABP Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, September 12-14!