Veterinarians show resilience during COVID-19: challenges faced and successful coping strategies.

Objective: To identify challenges veterinarians faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, explore how they coped, identify coping strategies associated with greater resilience, and determine incentives and barriers to performing healthy coping behaviors.

Samples: 266 surveys completed by veterinarians in the Potomac region.

Procedures: A cross-sectional survey was distributed electronically through veterinary medical boards and professional associations between June and September 2021.

Career stage differences in mental health symptom burden and help seeking among veterinarians during COVID-19.

Objective: To explore veterinarians' mental health symptom burden during COVID-19 and identify differences in symptom burden, social support, help seeking, and incentives and barriers associated with receiving help across career stages.

Sample: Online survey responses from 266 veterinarians between June 4 and September 8, 2021.

Procedures: Respondents were grouped by career stage (early [< 5 years of experience], middle [5 to 19 years of experience], or late [≥ 20 years of experience]), and results were compared across groups.