Veterinary Jobs from Home.

[jmsMD]

My sister in-law is a 2001 Cornell Vet grad. She has been practicing for several years and stopped because of growing dissatisfaction as well as need to stay home and take care of her new children.

Does anyone have any ideas or know of any opportunities for veterinarians working from home?

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[pressmom]

Sometimes people will families choose to work as fill-in vets on the weekend. There are lots of single-doctor practices with vets that like to take vacations one or two weekends a year. She could fill in for them on Saturdays, keep up her skill level, and not miss out on much time with family.

 

[Electrophile]

At our orientation, we had a vet speak to us who was in a similar spot: big time burnout and she didn't want to neglect her kids. She ended up being a part time relief vet when other nearby practices wanted to go on vacation and whatnot. She also did some teaching at a nearby university for microbiology, or something similar. If she has training or interest in behavior, she can also do veterinary behaviorist consulting at her leisure, but that'd probably entail a decent bit of continuing education.

 

[norky]

There are some vets, in the area that I live, that have there vet clinics next door to their homes. This is what I plan to do. I want to be home for my children, but I also want to have a career. For me this is the perfect solution.

 

[alonepear]

Veterinary insurance company perhaps? I only suggest this because my mom, as an RN, is burned out on hospital/bedside care, and has considered working for health insurance companies because she'd work from home I believe going over claims and relating it all back to the medicine she's trained in. Maybe not the most exciting, but a possible work-from-home job!

 

[theunraveler]

i am looking at this option of working on sat or sun since i would like to go for phd or go the MD program....

any one has experience working on weekends as a vet? wat is the pay and hours like? how much does it affect ur family life?

 

[david594]

any one has experience working on weekends as a vet? wat is the pay and hours like? how much does it affect ur family life?

You could be "that vet" who gives the vaccines at petco's on weekends....


Also, it seems there is a rather small niche market for at home work if you specialize in internal medicine or cardiology. Idexx offers a service where for a fee ultrasounds can be emailed to them and they have an IM or cardiology specialist review them and consult. From what I remember if you check the career portion of their website you find find a few of these positions listed and they appeared to be work from home type gigs.

 

[CookieBear]

You could be "that vet" who gives the vaccines at petco's on weekends....


Also, it seems there is a rather small niche market for at home work if you specialize in internal medicine or cardiology. Idexx offers a service where for a fee ultrasounds can be emailed to them and they have an IM or cardiology specialist review them and consult. From what I remember if you check the career portion of their website you find find a few of these positions listed and they appeared to be work from home type gigs.

Another company does the same thing: Dark Horse.

Also, Antech Diagnostics employs specialists for phone-consults. However, your sister-in-law may need additional education to pursue that type of career.

If she enjoys academic stuff, perhaps working from home with one of the veterinary journals - as an editor or in some other capacity - there's many publications out there.

Not sure how the national animal poison control consulting vets work, or from where, or what - if any - additional degrees are required - but that might be something a DVM could do from home.

Relief work can be done on a per-diem basis, or, as someone else mentioned, weekend vaccine clinics. I'm sure there has to be an emergency practice somewhere in the vicinity that might welcome a part-timer to fill-in a shift every now and then, perhaps. Granted, that's not at-home, but it could be off-hours or more flexible in hours/days/nights. Say, working one overnight shift a month, or twice a month, etc.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

i am looking at this option of working on sat or sun since i would like to go for phd or go the MD program....

If you try to work weekends ( I am assuming every weekend, 8-9 hr a day shifts) as a vet while simultaneously going to med school or doing PhD work, you will end up doing very poorly at both.....trust me. Either be a med student or a practicing vet, don't try to be both. You will have zero, read me, ZERO time to do anything else, even with family and friends. You won't even have time to watch TV. I'm not kidding. I tried to work a 8-9-hour/day job on weekends during my first year of vet school and I almost failed out, being constantly sick from lack of sleep and stress. Trust me, just don't....

Plus...that could be well over $300,000 worth of debt by the time you are done with both, (more like $600,000 if you go out of state) counting interest accruement *jaw drops*

 

[JerseyisCutest]

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[Hollycozza]

In Australia a lot of Mums go locum-ing when they want to mostly be at home with their kids. Another option is running a portable clinic that does house calls and medical cases but refers surgeries to abnother clinic. I know there are a few of them here.

 

[jmsMD]

Another company does the same thing: Dark Horse.

Also, Antech Diagnostics employs specialists for phone-consults. However, your sister-in-law may need additional education to pursue that type of career.

If she enjoys academic stuff, perhaps working from home with one of the veterinary journals - as an editor or in some other capacity - there's many publications out there.

Not sure how the national animal poison control consulting vets work, or from where, or what - if any - additional degrees are required - but that might be something a DVM could do from home.

Relief work can be done on a per-diem basis, or, as someone else mentioned, weekend vaccine clinics. I'm sure there has to be an emergency practice somewhere in the vicinity that might welcome a part-timer to fill-in a shift every now and then, perhaps. Granted, that's not at-home, but it could be off-hours or more flexible in hours/days/nights. Say, working one overnight shift a month, or twice a month, etc.

 

[Truth74]

Another company does the same thing: Dark Horse.

Also, Antech Diagnostics employs specialists for phone-consults. However, your sister-in-law may need additional education to pursue that type of career.

If she enjoys academic stuff, perhaps working from home with one of the veterinary journals - as an editor or in some other capacity - there's many publications out there.

Not sure how the national animal poison control consulting vets work, or from where, or what - if any - additional degrees are required - but that might be something a DVM could do from home.

Relief work can be done on a per-diem basis, or, as someone else mentioned, weekend vaccine clinics. I'm sure there has to be an emergency practice somewhere in the vicinity that might welcome a part-timer to fill-in a shift every now and then, perhaps. Granted, that's not at-home, but it could be off-hours or more flexible in hours/days/nights. Say, working one overnight shift a month, or twice a month, etc.

Hey cookiebear,

I happen to be at the animal poison control center, right now.
We are set up like a call center. The vets are all in the building during their shifts. There are a few that may have set ups at home, but it would be hard to do consults with another vet in the building, when the phone lines are full.

However, there is a pretty good kid policy. (pet policy rocks, too.)

TRUTH74

 

[CookieBear]

Hey cookiebear,

I happen to be at the animal poison control center, right now.
We are set up like a call center. The vets are all in the building during their shifts. There are a few that may have set ups at home, but it would be hard to do consults with another vet in the building, when the phone lines are full.

However, there is a pretty good kid policy. (pet policy rocks, too.)

TRUTH74

Gotcha, good to know. I was just trying to be helpful to the original poster, throwing out ideas. I've never personally known any DVM working from home, other than contract per-diem relief veterinarians - who work in clinics for hourly pay.

 

[HeartSong]

There's also areas she could consider that aren't directly vet related. If she loves animals, she could do in home pet sitting/ dog daycare. In home grooming, but again there would be some further education needed there. I know a vet who does house calls and takes her daughters with her. She even does some surgeries in the patient's home.

Gotcha, good to know. I was just trying to be helpful to the original poster, throwing out ideas. I've never personally known any DVM working from home, other than contract per-diem relief veterinarians - who work in clinics for hourly pay.

I think you threw out some really good suggestions. I'm not sure what the whole thumbsdown thing was about unless they accidently clicked on the wrong smiley. If they did mean the thumbsdown, it was pretty rude.