The benchmarks set to ensure that Veterinary Technician Specialists (Clinical Practice) are exceptional technicians in clinical practice will include five years of experience, demonstration of involvement in and management of challenging cases, and advanced educational knowledge gained through formal continuing education. Finally a VTS (Clinical Practice) will demonstrate they are capable of providing a level of clinical practice that is clearly superior to the general veterinary technician by successfully passing the comprehensive examination.
Important Application Change Update!
AVTCP is going BACK to a January-January Calendar Year Application Year!
Because of our new partnership with South West Veterinary Symposium, we are finally able to return to a more traditional application year. This means that starting January 1, 2025 we begin our NEW application year. For applicants who have already had their application accepted for the July to July application year, you have the luxury of an extra 6 months to complete your application! We will honor skills, logs, and reports starting July 1, 2024 through the due date which will be December 31st, 2025. For applicants looking to apply in 2025, your pre-application will be due sometime in November, 2025. Please stay tuned here for more detail!
Application Submission Guidelines
- AVTCP has a 2-part application process: a Pre-Application and a Final Application, with different requirements and due dates.
- The application year begins January 1 and ends December 31 each year. All skills, logs, reports, references, and signatures must occur and be obtained during the application year.
- The Pre-Application must be submitted no later than 11:59pm PST, at a date to be determined in the Fall of 2025. All of the Pre-Application is to be completed below with the fillable forms which will be posted July 1st.
- Once the Pre-Application has been accepted, applicants will receive an invitation to place their Final Application documents in the secure AVTCP DropBox.
- Final Application submissions, including all applicable documents, attachments, and letters of recommendation, will be accepted up to 11:59pm PST, December 31st. No Final Applications will be accepted beyond the due date and time.
- The total application fee is $100. $50 is required upon submission of the Pre-Application using the Paypal link provided below, and $50 upon submission of the Final Application. Please be sure the name on your PayPal account matches the name on your application and allow enough time to set up your Paypal account in order for AVTCP to receive payment by the due date and time.
International applicants must ensure their fee is paid in US dollars.
Pre-Application
Due Date: Coming Soon- will be in the Fall of 2025
The adjacent document contains instructions for the Pre-Application. Please use it to prepare and learn about the requirements, and then fill out the online forms below when live.
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Please use the adjacent Checklist when submitting your Pre and Final Application to ensure that all documents/requirements have been submitted
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Please use the adjacent Continuing Education template to log your CE. You will need to upload this to the CE page below after July 1
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The following Pre-Application online forms will be live from July 1 until the due date in the Fall of 2025. Applicants must have all forms with attachments complete no later than 11:59pm PST Sof that due date. Please note that you can only submit these documents once. If you mistakenly send a form before you were finished, please reach out to avtcpinformation@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Please provide this link or link to this page to both professionals providing letters of recommendation. They will need to upload their letter directly here by June 30, 2024 for 2023-24 applicants:
Final Application
Each specialty practice category has different skills, knowledge lists, and requirements. Please select the Final Application for your chosen specialty.
Due Date: Midnight, December 31, 2025
Due Date: Midnight, December 31, 2025
Small Animal, Canine/Feline: Canine/Feline |
Small Animal, Feline: Feline
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Exotic Companion Animal : Exotic Companion Animal
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Production Medicine : Production Medicine
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