If you're like many veterinarians, you're working long hours. It's a common problem and it's worsened by the reality that the long hours don't necessarily mean you're making as much money as you'd like or that your practice is expanding at the rate you want it to.

A number of veterinarians today also find that it's difficult to find good, qualified staff and, when they do, there are not enough hours in the day to train them to do their jobs well. So some of those hours the doctor works are invested in doing tasks the staff should have done.

And then there's the competition that veterinarians who were practicing 15 or 20 years ago didn't have to deal with -- the giant corporate chain stores who pour millions of dollars into advertising and the online pharmacies that are promoting 24/7. Not many doctors thought they'd have to be expert marketers to practice veterinary medicine.

Silkin Management Group

Factually, practice problems like the ones mentioned above exist only when a doctor isn't adequately trained as an executive, manager and administrator. If you find yourself having these problems, it means that you lack the business know-how to control the practice. Therefore, the practice is controlling you.

For more than two decades Silkin has been working with veterinarians. Our clients have access to our wealth of information about what works and what doesn't. They are able to benefit from our experience and get results from our management training and consulting services.

All of our programs are tailored for each client. However, we do find some common problems and have found that most veterinarians benefit greatly from:

• Our written job descriptions and office policy manual, written specially for a veterinary office.
  
  
• The training we provide that teaches you how to delegate work to your staff and ensure it gets done
  
  
• Organizational and efficiency echniques that result in more income and production -- with fewer hours spent in the office
  
  
• Learning how to market effectively and grow despite competition
  
  
• Our staff management training services which result in a competent staff who work as a team
  
  
• Our consulting, which is focused on implementation to ensure non- optimum situations are totally resolved.
  

Read the information we've presented on this web site to learn more about our training and consulting programs and their results.