California shelters are in urgent need of veterinary support. Many lack regular access to veterinary care, creating a critical gap in animal welfare services. And shelters provide unique on-the-job experience that will increase your value to all of your clients and patients.

This webinar will explore how veterinarians and RVTs can play a vital role in improving outcomes for shelter animals—whether as a full-time career path, an occasional volunteer, or a supplement to private practice.

Join the San Francisco SPCA and the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) for a two-hour session featuring:

• Dr. Grant Miller, DVM, Director of Regulatory Affairs, CVMA
• Bruce Wagman, Keith C. Wetmore Shelter Policy and Legal Services Special Counsel, SF SPCA
• Dr. Zarah Hedge, DVM, Chief Medical Officer & VP of Shelter Medicine, San Diego Humane Society

Expanding Your Veterinary Practice’s Horizons: The Multifaceted Values of Working with California’s Shelters in Need
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Noon–2 p.m. PT

This session will showcase how veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians (RVTs) can make a meaningful difference in people’s and animals’ lives in their own communities while also gaining valuable experience not always seen in private practice.

What You’ll Learn:

• Flexible career pathways in shelters, from full-time positions to part-time or consultative roles.
• How shelter medicine provides opportunities for advanced medicine, surgery, and dentistry outside of the scope of most private practice work.
• The unique fulfillment of helping animals most in need.
• How remote and on-site flexibility for the shelters makes contributing more important and accessible than ever.
• Don’t miss this chance to discover how shelter medicine can increase your career satisfaction while transforming animal lives.

Register Now

This course has been RACE approved for 2 hours of live-interactive continuing education credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.

This course will be available on-demand for self-guided/ non-interactive CE credit after October 24. To view additional RACE approved on-demand webinars click here and here.

SF SPCA’s advocacy work is made possible in part by the generous support of the Barbara Wolfe Advocacy Fund.

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