MB Mixed-Animal Clinics – Please help spread the word with your small-scale swine and poultry clients. Manitoba Agriculture is hosting two seminars on health and biosecurity for small holder swine and poultry owners in March. Feel free to print this PDF agenda and post in your clinics, share on your social media accounts, or email to interested clients. The registration link to each event is included in the agenda. Thank you!

As promised at the recent Membership Engagement and Awards Evening, participants at the Continuing Education session that day are eligible to claim their time. As many may recall, the Feb. 11th event included a CE session on practice management presented by Amy Oliver and Co. Those who attended may now count that towards their annual total and can also get a certificate of completion to verify their completion of the program.  

As the session met the criteria for CE, attendees can count one hour, which can be logged on your CE Credit Record Card, located here on the MVMA site.  

In order to keep a record of your attendance at the event, you can: 

1. Use the CE Personal Credit Record Evidence Form to maintain the relevant information, or 

1. Obtain a CE Certificate by emailing Sabina at Sabina@mvma.ca and requesting same.  

The Council of the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association would like to thank all of those who turned out for the CE session in addition to the many other events and activities that were part of the February 11th event. 

MVMA Council wishes to acknowledge and thank everyone who turned out to help make the 2023 Membership Engagement and Awards Evening a real success! And now is your chance to share your thoughts and ideas on how the evening went and how it can be made better than ever!

The MVMA welcomes and encourages all who attended the event to fill out a brief survey with an eye towards providing feedback on your experience.  The survey is brief and should only take a minute or two to complete. Click here for yours now.

Events such as this do not happen without the input and support of MVMA membership. Your ideas, comments and suggestions provide valuable insight and help expedite the planning process for this and other future events.  Do please take the time to fill it out and share your thoughts on how we can work together towards making our profession the absolute best it can be!

MVMA are reminded to claim their free ticket to the 2023 Membership Engagement and Awards Evening coming up on February 11!  

Each and every year, MVMA volunteers go the distance to help deliver top level service and results for the membership in myriad different ways. To salute and acknowledge such dedicated service, MVDA volunteers are invited as guests of the Association to the event coming up at The Gates on Roblin in February. Each volunteer will receive one complementary ticket to the event that also includes admission to, and credit for the Continuing Education program scheduled for earlier that day, along with the Town Hall. 

Those planning to attend are asked to confirm their spot at the event with the Association by contacting Sabina at the MVMA office by phone at 204. 832. 1276 – ext. 3 or via email at sabina@mvma.ca. 

Additional tickets are available at the MVMA website by clicking here.  

Onward and Upward: Challenging the status quo through courage and creativity – will be the featured Continuing Education program will be part of the 2023 Membership Engagement and Awards Evening slated for Saturday, February 11 in Headingley, MB. 

The session will count for one hour of CE credit and will be held immediately ahead of the awards dinner to be held at the Gates on Rolblin. Presented by Amy Oliver + Co, the session will begin at 4:30 followed by the awards dinner cocktail hour at 5:30. 

The session will “allow attendees opportunity to learn and develop strategies to own their engagement, craft their career, and find the courage to live through their work.” Amy says in the abstract that outlines the programming ahead. ““Learn to sit inside your discomfort and use it to differentiate yourself by embracing values and creating broader practice change.” Click here for the full abstract on the session. 

As many members may be aware, Amy Oliver is an experienced healthcare executive and the founder and CEO of Amy Oliver + Co where she offers trusted advisory services and professional leadership and business coaching to practice owners, leaders, academics, and organizations in health and social sectors. 

Click here to get your ticket today! 

A reminder that the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association is welcoming all members to the 2023 MVMA Membership Engagement and Awards Night! In addition to the awards dinner, the event will feature a Continuing Education component along with a Town Hall, all held at the Gates on Roblin in Headingley, MB. 

The 5 Ws of the Event: 

• Who: Members and guests of the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association. 
• Where: The Gates on Roblin – 6945 Roblin Blvd, Headingley, MB
• What: 

• Awards Evening: 5:30 – 8:30 pm  

• Continuing Education: 4:30 – 5:30 pm  
• Town Hall: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm. 

• When: Saturday, February 11, 2023.
• Why: To mark individual and collective achievement and advancement of the veterinary profession in Manitoba.

A limited number of tickets are available and will be distributed on a first–come, first–served basis. Veterinarians: $50 Veterinary Technologists: $25 Guests: $25 

Click here to secure your tickets now!  

It will now be easier for you to be part of the MVMA’s 3rd Annual Rural Forum Day!
The event has been moved to the evening of Thursday, November 10, and will take place virtually, online via WebEx, from 7 – 9 pm.
Moving to a virtual platform will allow more participation, input and feedback from the community on the important issues facing those in rural veterinary practice in Manitoba today.

The agenda will include:
1) Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association Update:
– Brief updates/information from MVMA Council.

2) Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer Update with Dr. Deanne Wilkinson to include:
–  New seating criteria for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine students.
–  Summer work partnerships for MB vet students interested in food animal and rural practice.

3) New Student Summer Program:
– CVO requesting feedback from MVMA members.

4) Pregnancy Checking:
– New proposed Micro–credential for RVTs.
– Discussion and feedback.

5) After-Hours Care:
Discussion and feedback.

6) Open Feedback Forum & Wrap

Click here to register. Registration closes on November 9.

It’s the season for Season Fur Everyone!

This is your chance to:

• Show how much veterinarians and veterinary technologists care about animal health and wellness, as well as pet owners.
• Promote the veterinary profession and the good done for society.
• Help spread holiday cheer.
• Assist a local charity of your choice.

To participate, clinics must be available to accept donations from the public for the local charity of your choice. Participating clinics can support a family, shelter,
rescue or a local food bank with the donations.

Click here to have your clinic showcased on the MVMA Season Fur Everyone website page (launching the last week of November).

Please submit by November 18, 2022 to ensure that your clinic is listed when the website it launched.

MVMA is offering the following workplace series on the topic of Protecting Your Emotional Well-Being at Work with Coral Doherty, RVT.

• Psychological competencies and demands & psychological protection on October 19 from 7-8pm
• Civility & Respect and Diversity on October 26 from 7-8pm
• Psychological Safety Cultural Experience, Trusting Mistakes are Good for Business on November 2 from 7-8pm, 2022

See below for more information on each session. Please note that to sign up for one session is 20$, and for all three sessions is 50$. To register click here.

Also, please don’t forget that MVMA is also hosting a CE event on MVMA Wellness Toolkit and Survey on October 25, 2022. Click here to register.

 Psychological competencies and demands & psychological protection

This session will outline how a worker can discuss workplace responsibilities from an angle of emotional wellness. Employers will find value in attending this session to find out more about how they can provide workplace support for the emotional toll of work while building psychological competency for job success in difficult situations. Interactions with coworkers and the public need to feel safe, build trust, and encourage curiosity. Psychological Protection: How does that help, what does that feel like? What is appropriate? Psychological Competencies: Emotional skills for optimal workplace performance

Civility & Respect and Diversity

The mental health continuum. Mental health at work is fluid. Do you know someone who came to work but didn’t act like they wanted to be a part of the team? Develop a new perspective on a persistent workplace phenomenon. Psychological injury discussion, attitude, code of ethics, and employee accountability, discipline, and diversity considerations. Develop “emotional well-being at work” language to discuss workplace stress.

Psychological Safety Cultural Experience, Trusting Mistakes are Good for Business

Plan the problem, try the solution, check for success or failure, improve the problem planning process. The best solution is one that has worked before, the best solution is the one you improve each time you use it. This session brings new work design processes with a customer focused approach…. Your employees! Employees are worth gold today. Investing in gold will reward those who lead by example and set the “new normal mindset” of continuous improvement, practiced vulnerability, and building workplace trust. Attendees will leave this hour with a list of opportunities to invest in gold with a psychological safety mindset. Problem Solving Tools: best customer experience quality mindset Continuous Improvement Mindset: setting up success from failure Leading by Example: Post Pandemic “The New Normal”