Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) Micro-Credentials
Are you a registered veterinary technician (RVT) looking to take that next step in your career? Our new Registered Veterinary Technician Micro-Credentials program aims to enhance the existing skills of working RVTs and empower them to take on advanced roles on veterinary healthcare teams.
As the veterinary landscape evolves, these micro-credentials focus on enhancing your role in collaborative care, effective communication, and leadership, ensuring you are pivotal in driving high-quality animal care alongside veterinarians and other team members.
Amidst growing challenges in veterinary access, this program recognizes the expanding opportunities for you to significantly address these gaps. By emphasizing critical areas such as conflict management, team dynamics, client interaction, and integrating new care models, the micro-credentials prepare you to take on enhanced roles, fostering clinical excellence and cultivating positive workplace environments.
In partnership with the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) and through new funding from the Ontario Government, the program is designed with an eye on future developments in veterinary care, including new legislation and industry trends, ensuring you are not only prepared for current demands but are also positioned to take advantage of future opportunities. This forward-thinking approach positions you as a key contributor in the evolving landscape of veterinary services, empowering you to lead and innovate in response to the changing needs of the profession.
Read the Ontario Veterinary College News Release here.
Learning Outcomes
- Foster skills in teamwork and collaboration to enhance the effectiveness of veterinary healthcare teams, focusing on the expanded roles of RVTs in companion animal and equine practices.
- Integrate digital tools and virtual care technologies into RVT practices to enhance the provision and reach of primary care services.
- Develop RVTs' clinical communication skills to implement relationship-centred veterinary medicine, manage conflicts, and effectively collaborate within healthcare teams.
- Identify skills necessary for technician-led consultations, preventive medicine, urgent care, triage, and virtual care, ensuring they can perform specialized tasks in companion animal and equine primary care.
- Develop cultural competence and community engagement skills, particularly for RVTs working in diverse or underserved communities, to provide culturally sensitive and inclusive care.
- Equip RVTs with strategies for self-care, resilience, and wellbeing to address the high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue in the veterinary profession.
RVT Courses
The following four new micro-credentials are just five weeks in length and delivered entirely online in an asynchronous environment providing you the necessary flexibility and convenience to study as a busy working professional.
Effective Veterinary Teams
Elevate communication and leadership skills to support transformative change in veterinary care.
Technician-led Veterinary Care: Companion Animal Practice
Perform common activities and address the needs and challenges in companion animal primary care practices in a variety of settings.
Veterinary Healthcare Delivery to Underserved Communities
Develop strategies to advance the health and well-being of animals in remote or northern regions, small towns, and economically vulnerable communities.
Technician-led Veterinary Care: Equine Practice
Explore common challenges and activities in equine primary care and identify and address the unique needs of horses to ensure optimal outcomes.
A Quick Note about Micro-Credentials
Micro-credentials are quickly emerging as a new way to meet job market demands within a shorter time commitment and at lower tuition costs. This new movement in education is on track to gain popularity over longer and more traditional continuing education programs.
What is a digital badge?
A digital badge is a graphic icon that represents a credential through achievement of a particular course or program. Digital badging offers students a simplified approach to documenting and sharing their qualifications and skills with current and future employers.
Courses have been developed in alignment with The Veterinary Professionals Act, 2024