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What is the VBMA?

The Veterinary Business Management Association is a student-driven organization dedicated to advancing the profession through increasing business knowledge, creating networking opportunities, and empowering students to achieve their personal and professional goals.

The goal of the National VBMA was to provide a support network among students with common interests and goals. These students believed that in order to practice quality medicine, veterinarians needed to possess subsidiary skills to enhance client compliance and personal success. These beliefs were rooted in the results of industry research of the time, most notably the KPMG Mega Study but also the Brakke and AVMA-Pfizer studies that followed. These studies showed the importance of business education as factors in improving the quality of veterinary service and the amount veterinary income. The founding students of the VBMA felt like this element of their education was not being addressed and moved to fill the void.

One of the founding principles and greatest attributes of the VBMA is that it has always been lead, managed, and organized entirely by veterinary students. The VBMA considers itself to be “independent” primarily because it does not have, and was not created or directed by any type of parent organization. Our organization is founded on the determination, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit of future veterinary leaders who desire a higher level of business education than what is being offered through veterinary colleges. This allows us to pursue their own educational interests through lectures and hands-on experiences.

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