10/19/2018
On-the-job training, continuous professional development – call it what you want but learning as you go can be either a blessing or a curse for anyone starting their careers.
Of Evidensia Denmark’s eight clinics, all care for small animals. Two are mixed practices that also see horses, and one treats cattle too. This gives the country’s 122 employees such a wide range of experiences and skills that Evidensia Denmark has been keen to find ways to share their knowledge across the group.
“The process for dogs is exactly the same as with a human athlete – the right surgery based on the correct diagnosis.” Dr Rico Vannini – Bessy's Kleintierklinik
Having always been interested in primates, I looked for places to volunteer and work with them during the final practical year of my veterinarian studies. I spent four months at International Animal Rescue’s Macaque and Slow Loris Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Bogor, Indonesia and was very impressed by both the organisation and the centre.
People’s attitudes towards their pets are changing in Finland. Anssi Tast, Evidensia Finland’s Vice President, says that two decades ago, “It was still very much ‘animals are animals’ so they get a certain kind of treatment.”
Sweden has one of the world’s most advanced digital economies. It follows that veterinary care needs to use available technologies to offer the kind of quick, responsive and personalised services that customers now expect from every kind of business.
Core to our mission are clinical independence, international cooperation, and continuous education to develop our people and their careers.
It’s been an incredible journey. When we founded the group in 2011, we started with just 20 practices.
10/17/2018
The weather is baking when we speak to Dr Frank Wagner of the Tierärztliche Klinik Norderstedt. Despite this, work continues for the two resident surgeons he supervises.
