Introducing ER Immerse Our New Mentorship Program
July 19, 2022
ER Immerse is a mentorship program that provides veterinarians with a career path in emergency medicine. The program offers three tracks – ER Flex, ER FIT, and ER ABVP – allowing doctors to select the structure that best meets their individual needs.
In addition to benefiting mentees, the program helps support our emergency services by keeping our teams at the forefront of medicine through teaching and learning opportunities, as well as by ensuring veterinarians interested in pursuing a career in emergency medicine have options.
Thank you for Answering Our Questions
Here’s what we learned through a recent survey of more than 450 veterinary students and 2,300 veterinarians:
- For veterinary students, emergency medicine is a desirable career, provided no internship is required.
- Providing a “supportive team” in the form of mentors and clear paths to mastery is needed to improve our recruitment and retention of emergency practitioners.
- The vast majority of referring veterinarians refer cases to emergency services with ABVP diplomate emergency vets.
“With this information as a guide, we developed ER Immerse, and more than 40 NVA Compassion-First hospitals are participating in the program. Over the past several months, we’ve created the program and built our library of content based on the recommendations of criticalists and ER doctors. Mentors and mentees have access to the library housed on the online learning platform, VetBloom,” says Dr. Matt Booth, ER Practice Development Lead for NVA Compassion-First.
In addition to VetBloom, mentees will have access to tools and resources such as medical journals, our Community Team’s wellbeing resources, peer-to-peer collaboration via Microsoft Teams, grand rounds, and more.