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The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Dr. Hubert Hiemstra
Veterinary Medicine
Anemia
Artificial Intelligence
Veterinary Science
Emergency Veterinary Medicine
Mental Health
Moral Injury
Liver Enzymes
Client Communication
Mentorship
Veterinary Care
Leadership
Work-Life Balance
Veterinary Profession
Surgery
Burnout
Membership Exams
Veterinary Business Ownership
Veterinary Radiology
Professional Development

The Vet Vault is a veterinary podcast for vets and vet students covering career growth, clinical medicine, leadership, and mental health and wellbeing across the veterinary profession. Vet life can be tough, but it's also good - so how do we make it even better? Host Dr Hubert Hiemstra brings honest, curious, occasionally irreverent conversations with the people making vet med better. Clinical CPD... more

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Artwork for The Vet Vault: Veterinary Career, Clinical Skills & Wellbeing

Latest Episodes

What if the thing making your working day harder isn’t the workload?

What if it's the building?

In this episode we're joined by Jerry Kennard from ⁠Evoke Projects⁠, someone who designs veterinary spaces for a living and has watched a lot of owners ... more

Everyone says burnout. But Dr Sarah Golding thinks a lot of us are misdiagnosing ourselves.

When vets come to her ready to walk away from the profession, they arrive with a vocabulary: burnt out, overwhelmed, imposter syndrome. Not one of them opens... more

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I love any new tool that can make my life as a veterinarian easier and get better outcomes for my patients, so when I first heard about IDEXX's new CancerDx test I was excited, but I had questions! Like, how is a cancer screening test useful to my pa... more

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Most conversations about how to survive a veterinary career is a conversation with the survivors. We interview the vets who are still standing. The vets and nurses who left? Nobody interviews them. In this episode you’ll hear why we should be listeni... more

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Recent Guests

Sandra Nguyen
Oncologist
Sydney, Australia
Episode: 165: Making Sense of IDEXX Cancer Dx - Canine Lymphoma Screening. With Dr Sandra Nguyen
Alex Harrison
Veterinarian, former practice partner, and inclusion consultant through Vetquity
Vetquity
Episode: 164: The Planes That Never Came Home: Inclusion, Retention and the Hidden Curriculum, with Dr Alex Harrison
Patrik Holmboe
AI-pilled veterinarian advocating for and building veterinary tech solutions
Nova Vet
Episode: 163: Tech Tools for Vets 5: The Fix for Missed Billing, with SmartCapture
Dr. Janey Lowes
Founder of We Care Worldwide (WECare)
We Care Worldwide (WECare)
Episode: 162: Street Dogs, Brave Vetting, and the Double Life of Dr Janey Lowes
Dr. Kieran McLeod
Head of Medical Knowledge at Heidi Health
Heidi Health
Episode: 161: Tech Tools for Vets 4: Heidi - AI Scribe, Voice Agents And Clinical Decision Support For Vets. With Dr Kieran McLeod
Rhonda Andrews
Psychologist who works across high pressure industries including veterinary medicine
Barrington Centre for Leadership and Wellbeing (implied via Barrington context)
Episode: 160: Toxic Workplaces Just Got Expensive: What The New Psychological Safety Laws Mean For Vet Practices. With Rhonda Andrews
Dr. Caleb Frankel
CEO of Instinct, co-founder of Instinct and Scribble Vet integration
Instinct
Episode: 159: Tech Tools for Vets 3: Instinct ❤️ Scribble - What Happens When Your PIMS And Your Scribe Get Married? With Dr Caleb Frankel and Rohan Relan
Rebecca Faris
Vet and head of Thrive program at Australian Vet Association
Australian Veterinary Association (AVA)
Episode: 158: Psychological Safety For Vets: Why The Job Might Need Fixing, Not The People. With Dr Rebecca Faris
Hasitha Jayatilake
Software engineer and creator of Study Anything
Study Anything
Episode: 157: Tech Tools for Vets 2: AI-Powered Learning with StudyAnything. With Hasitha Jayatilake

Host

Hubert Hiemstra
Host of The Vet Vault

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 194 ratings
  • Every vet needs to sign up ! Trust me 🙂

    This podcast is 10/10.

    It’s honestly the best CE out their bar hands on practicals which let’s be real costs upwards of $5000 these days. It’s so cost effective, easy to do and an absolutely invaluable source of veterinary information gold .

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    KirstyDowning6
    Australiaa year ago
  • A podcast that helps celebrate the good bits of being a vet.

    Really great and easy to listen to podcast for vets about how to get more enjoyment out of the profession. Highly recommended to any vet of any experience level.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Lloyd_777
    Australia2 years ago
  • Bite sized education and motivation

    Thank you to Dr Huber and the whole Ver Vault team for creating and providing content that is current and relevant in many areas and for a wide variety of people within our profession.

    Refreshing or gaining new knowledge is a personal way I stay motivated and excited about my work and Vet Vault makes that easily accessible and achievable on a day to day basis.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Pet Society Vet
    Australia2 years ago
  • Fantastic resource

    A colleague at work got me onto these podcasts, they are so great and so handy to keep up to date with all the latest info. I signed up for all the clinical podcasts which does have a fee but it’s worth every penny. I highly recommend and the hosts are a great mix of serious and hilarious which makes for great listening. 5 stars ❤️

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Fjfypdotdtosristosyd
    Australia3 years ago
  • Amazing!

    Just an amazing super practical podcast!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Corrine2001
    Canada3 years ago

Listeners Say

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Insightful, practical, and motivating for vets at all career stages.
The show balances real-world challenges with uplifting, actionable guidance.
Guests bring diverse expertise; content stays current and valuable for everyday practice.

Chart Rankings

How this podcast ranks in the Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube charts.

Apple Podcasts
#211
United Kingdom/Science
Apple Podcasts
#142
Australia/Science
Apple Podcasts
#41
South Korea/Science
Apple Podcasts
#113
South Africa/Science
Apple Podcasts
#209
Brazil/Science
Apple Podcasts
#248
Hong Kong/Science

Talking Points

Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

165: Making Sense of IDEXX Cancer Dx - Canine Lymphoma Screening. With Dr Sandra Nguyen
Q: When would you choose Cancer DX over FNA for a suspected lymphoma case?
In sick dogs where you suspect lymphoma but want confirmation without immediate invasive sampling, or when you want to complement cytology to gain phenotype information and potentially guide treatment decisions.
165: Making Sense of IDEXX Cancer Dx - Canine Lymphoma Screening. With Dr Sandra Nguyen
Q: How does Cancer DX compare to cytology (FNA) in terms of diagnostic value?
Cytology with FNA is highly sensitive (~93%) and reasonably specific (~90%), whereas Cancer DX offers higher specificity but slightly lower sensitivity, making it useful as an additional confirmatory tool or in cases where cytology is equivocal.
165: Making Sense of IDEXX Cancer Dx - Canine Lymphoma Screening. With Dr Sandra Nguyen
Q: What is the advertised sensitivity and specificity of Cancer DX?
The test shows about 80% sensitivity and 99% specificity, meaning positives are usually true positives, but a negative result does not completely rule out lymphoma, especially in early or atypical cases.
161: Tech Tools for Vets 4: Heidi - AI Scribe, Voice Agents And Clinical Decision Support For Vets. With Dr Kieran McLeod
Q: What is the workflow around notes, context, and syncing changes between the vet note and downstream documents?
The host and Kieran discuss treating the veterinarian's note as the anchor or source of truth, with a workflow that allows edits in the note to propagate to documents, along with a resume/transcribe cycle and a sync changes feature to keep all outputs up to date.
157: Tech Tools for Vets 2: AI-Powered Learning with StudyAnything. With Hasitha Jayatilake
Q: What about adding content from multiple notes or courses into a single quiz?
At the moment, quizzes are generated per uploaded file or per selected topics/outcomes. Creating a quiz that combines content from multiple separate notes or courses into one is not supported yet but is identified as a potential use case for future development.

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A practical, practitioner-focused show that covers clinical knowledge, leadership, wellbeing, and the evolving tech landscape in veterinary medicine. Across episodes, listeners encounter honest conversations about burnout, psychological safety, and work design, alongside actionable CPD, mindsets for career growth, and discussions of affordability and access in veterinary care. Guests range from psychologists and industry analysts to practicing veterinarians and tech innovators, with recurring emphasis on making veterinary life healthier, more sustainable, and more inclusive. Noteworthy traits include a hands-on, no-nonsense style, data-informed approaches to well-being, and a willingness to explore emerging tools (AI, practice management te... more

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2. Alex Harrison
3. Patrik Holmboe
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