Clinical Skills Mentorship

VTNA has included a Clinical Mentorship program into our Alternate Route Program that is designed to allow the student to document acquisition of technical skills to the level required to be a highly skilled Registered Veterinary Technician. Students may need to utilize more than one veterinary facility to meet the species requirement.  Any clinical skills not completed at the student’s mentorship site may be completed at a scheduled workshop at All God’s Creatures Teaching Hospital & Surgery Center.

Students will typically document most of the required technical skill tasks at the veterinary facility in which they are employed or with whom they have developed a volunteer or working relationship. The veterinary facility must meet certain basic requirements as they relate to available equipment and supplies.

The type of required documentation is described in detail in the logbooks and may include narrated video recordings that will be reviewed by VTNA instructors.

Clinical skills are categorized into 9 logbooks. The clinical skill logbooks must be completed by the deadline of each course.