Change the way you practice veterinary medicine for the better: have more fun, struggle less with patients, use your time with patients more efficiently and create environments that help to prevent behavioral problems while lowering stress for you and your staff. Learn how to provide routine veterinary care using humane techniques that will make you, your clients and your patients happier.

The intent of this course is to provide an in-depth, hands-on, immediately applicable survey of current concepts in veterinary behavioral medicine. The primary reasons animals are relinquished, abandoned or euthanized still involve behavioral complaints. These losses are quality of life issues for everyone in your practice and they do not have to occur. The vast majority of behavioral complaints are easy to treat early in their development, but you may only recognize them if you take a more behavior-centered approach to veterinary care.

This course will prepare you to immediately incorporate behavioral medicine into the every day life of your practice. Fewer veterinary schools than ever offer training in behavioral medicine, and this course is intended to remediate this omission and empower you to tackle urgent issues of humane behavioral care. Data show that adding veterinary behavioral medicine at any level to your practice is a practice builder. In this fun, sometimes poignant, and seriously interactive course, emphasis is on practical diagnosis, appropriate and humane treatment and on monitoring and understanding the behaviors in a way that maximizes client compliance and prognosis.

Whether this is your first NAVC behavior course or you are a returning attendee, there is something for everyone in this ‘hands-on’, case-based course. Become the person you want to be for your patients!