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This study was performed to determine the economic activity and profitability of veterinary practices operating in Kars province by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In this study, the 2023 data of 53.6% of veterinary practices operating in Kars province were obtained through a face-to-face survey. In the DEA applied to determine the economic efficiency of practices, input-oriented constant returns to scale (CCR) technique were used According to the study findings, 6.7% of the veterinarians participating in the survey were female, 93.3% were male, and 46.6% were aged between 25 and 29 years. It was observed that all the veterinarians participating in the research had been practicing their professional activities since the date of graduation, and the majority (73.3%) had 3-12 years of experience (graduate date 2011-2020). It was determined that 10% of the veterinarians participating in the survey received postgraduate education (master's degree with thesis and PhD). It was found that 30% of veterinarians opened a practice after working in a practice. According to the DEA results for economic efficiency, it was determined that 90% of the practices were active. As a result, when veterinary practices were evaluated in terms of efficiency, it was understood that rent, maintenance-repair, general administrative costs, and other costs must be reduced in order to make economically ineffective veterinary practices to effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the business cards used by the veterinarians. The material of the study included the business cards collected by the final year students of Selçuk University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in academic year of 2012-2013. A form was generated for the students to process the information related to veterinarians whose business cards have been collected. In accordance with those forms, 462 samples of business cards from 40 provinces in seven regions of Turkey have been analyzed. It was determined that 435 of the business cards were for clinics, 18 of them were for policlinics, and 9 of them were for animal hospitals; 272 of them were in the center of the provinces, 190 of them were in towns; 326 of them belonged to veterinary surgeons who deal with farm animals and 136 of them belonged to the veterinarians who deal with pets. Besides the institutional information such as name and title of the individuals, names and addresses of the clinics, policlinics and hospitals and phone numbers; some concepts which may lead to unfair competition, languages except for Turkish, the expressions, colors, animal figures and logos which may harm institutional identity are analyzed. It may be claimed, in conclusion, that there is no legislative arrangement related to the business cards used by the veterinarians and the ethical rules should be organized by Turkish Veterinary Medical Association in order to provide unity in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]