Looking for virtual CE options? Check out our digital line up! Access continuing education, professional publications, information resources, programs and products through your membership online, and on-demand.
The MAP offers help for personal and/or professional concerns by providing free, confidential, short-term counseling and personal consultation.
Additionally, the MAP provides work-life resources for such issues as legal and financial consultations, online learning, and resources. They also host a variety of helpful seminars.
The Florida Veterinary Medical Association (FVMA) provides numerous tangible benefits to its members including quality continuing education, professional publications, information resources, and discounts on personal and professional services, programs, and products. But some of the most valuable benefits derived from membership in the FVMA are intangible. The Association provides a powerful voice for the veterinary medical profession, and works to affect policies, regulations, and legislation, in order to protect the veterinary profession, veterinarians’ livelihood, and the well-being of patients and clients.
FVMA offers classic DVM membership, with bonus inclusion for equine veterinarians in the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners (FAEP), as well as team member memberships.
The FVMA’s Legislative Committee and our staff are constantly monitoring any proposed legislation that could affect the veterinary profession. Our statewide network of members contact legislators whenever necessary to protect the interests of our membership. The FVMA also retains the lobbying firm Converge Government Affairs to ensure that the “good bills pass” and the “bad bills don’t.”
FVMA Annual Conference (small animal/exotic), The Gulf-Atlantic Veterinary Conference (small animal/exotic), Promoting Excellence Symposium (equine), FVMA Regionals (small animal), Ocala Equine Conference (equine), and Harvey Rubin Memorial Food Animal Conference, as well as online courses, provide affordable opportunities for CE. These conferences expand the skills and knowledge of attendees while offering a chance to network, professionally and socially, with colleagues and industry partners in the veterinary medical field.
MAP offers help for personal and/or professional concerns by providing free, confidential, short-term counseling and personal consultation. Additionally, MAP provides work-life resources for issues such as legal and financial consultations, online learning and resources.
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FVMA members can receive a brief, complimentary legal consultation for issues that arise during the practice of veterinary medicine. To take advantage of this benefit, email info@fvma.org with the issue as well as your contact information.
The FVMA Advocate is published six times a year and The Practitioner four. These publications are provided to members free of cost and are vehicles for circulating up-to-date industry and medical information as well as information regarding FVMA CE conferences and events. Emails and social media will also keep you in the loop with breaking news and issues that affect your profession.
The FVMA staff is here to help you and answer any questions you might have. Your business and professional interests are the FVMA’s daily focus. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll do our best to find it for you.
The FVMA website contains our online membership directory, which gives you the ability to find a colleague’s name, address, phone number and email. Through this feature, you can also edit your own record in the FVMA database. Members can opt out of having their respective information available to other members.
Pet owners can locate FVMA member veterinarians by searching their name, city or county. This public view will contain FVMA members’ clinic addresses and phone numbers.
We make accepting electronic payments easy AND affordable! First Data, now FiServ, has partnered with the FVMA for over 25 years. FiServ’s program helps you to connect with customers no matter where you run your business. We have payment solutions for the brick-and-mortar clinic, field work and online payments. Simply put, our merchant services make it possible for you to receive non-cash payments securely anytime, anywhere.
Your dedicated Business Consultant, Mary Durina, has represented the FVMA’s merchant program for 28 years. She is ready to assist with any payment needs or questions you may have. You can reach Mary by phone, text or email. 813.326.5501 – cell / mary.durina@firstdata.com
CareCredit provides a continuum of payment to support a Lifetime of CareTM for pets at enrolled veterinary hospitals. Once approved for a CareCredit credit card, clients can choose from special financing options available and make convenient monthly payments for everything from diagnostics and preventative care to emergency and specialty care. Clients can use CareCredit again and again at any provider in the CareCredit network.
Want to enroll your practice or learn more? Call 800-300-3046 or visit www.carecredit.com/vet.
Already one of the 22,000+ veterinary hospitals that accept CareCredit? Call 800-859-9975 for free resources and support from your Practice Development Team.
Avoid bad debt and improve cash flow! A national leader in accounts receivable, collections and avoidance. In addition to collecting outstanding accounts, I.C. Systems will train your staff and put in place their administrative system to prevent future receivable problems. Call 800‐279‐3511.
This is the most comprehensive nationwide career and employee recruiting site for the animal health industry. The Career Center allows you to find the job or candidate you’re looking for! The Veterinary Career Center is an active partner when you post a job opening or your resume with us. You will have access to the most jobs and candidates in the animal health industry in your neighborhood, other parts of Florida and nationwide!
Our Relief Veterinarian listings provide direct access to temporary staffing resources when your staff needs it in situations such as illness, maternity leave, family obligations, or a scheduled vacation.
This program is designed to foster and support leadership potential in the industry by providing learning experiences to recent graduates, which will engage and develop foundational skills in leadership, communication and business.
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