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Through Our NAVTA-Approved
Veterinary Assistant Program

Turn your passion for helping animals into a rewarding career by becoming a certified veterinary assistant at Animal Behavior College. Our Veterinary Assistant Program is designed to prepare you for a career helping animals. 

  • Approved by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA)
  • Acquire practical skills you can apply in real-life settings
  • Experience what it’s like to work in a veterinary hospital
  • Invest in your future
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Start Saving Animal Lives

Through Our NAVTA-Approved
Veterinary Assistant Program

Turn your passion for helping animals into a rewarding career by becoming a certified veterinary assistant at Animal Behavior College. Our Veterinary Assistant Program is designed to prepare you for a career with animals. 

  • Approved by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA)
  • Acquire practical skills you can apply in real-life settings
  • Experience what it’s like to work in a veterinary hospital
  • Invest in your future
Request Information
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Start Saving Animal Lives

Through Our NAVTA-Approved
Veterinary Assistant Program

Turn your passion for helping animals into a rewarding career by becoming a certified veterinary assistant at Animal Behavior College. Our Veterinary Assistant Program is designed to prepare you for a career with animals. 

  • Approved by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA)
  • Acquire practical skills you can apply in real-life settings
  • Experience what it’s like to work in a veterinary hospital
  • Invest in your future
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NAVTA-Approved Veterinary Assistant Program
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Take Our NAVTA-Approved Veterinary Assistant Program If You Want To:

Save Animal Lives

Work in a Veterinary Hospital

Follow Your Passion and Work with Animals

Start a Career in the Pet Industry

Receive Your Pet CPR and First Aid Certification

Our program is one of a very few select online educational programs approved by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA).

Veterinary Assistant School Overview

Flexible Schedule & Online Study

Complete our veterinary assistant course no matter where you live within the United States or Canada. One of the best parts of our online program is you can study on your own time.

Real World Vet Assistant Training & Mentorship

We have relationships with more than 4,000 veterinary facilities across the U.S. and Canada, providing you with the opportunity to receive on-the-job training experience.

Unparalleled Student Support

Stay on track with the help, guidance and support of your ABC Program Manager. Each Program Manager has worked in the veterinary field and has years of experience to share.

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The Benefits of Becoming a Veterinary Assistant

Love of Animals

If you’re someone who has always loved animals and has dreamed of working with them on a daily basis, then becoming a vet assistant is a fulfilling career. The majority of your time will be spent handling dogs, cats and sometimes exotic pets, like birds and reptiles.

Strong Job Market

The decision to become a veterinary assistant means that you will enter a steady job market. Similar to the medical field for humans, there is always a need for veterinary care, and veterinary assistants are invaluable.

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Veterinary assistants become adept at calming and restraining anxious animals in an unfamiliar setting. They clean and sanitize examination rooms and surgical areas. Among other tasks, veterinary assistants prepare prescriptions, monitor vital signs, and assist with pre-operative care and post-operative care.

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With our completely digital curriculum in 2023, ABC students and the school will make a difference and save hundreds of trees a year.

Our Program Curriculum

Our Veterinary Assistant Program is a hybrid of online and in-person real world experience. This allows you to study and take your exams online from anywhere in North America on your own schedule. After your exam, we will place you with one of our approved mentors closest to your location for in-person real-world experience.  

Our program curriculum includes the following and more:

Covered in stage 6 of our veterinary assistant course teaches, students learn the fundamentals of small animal nursing. Stage 6 will provide you with the tools needed to properly nurture the animals in your care. This stage focuses on identifying different breeds of dogs and cats, recognizing normal and abnormal behavior in dogs and cats, identifying common diseases and medical conditions, and properly caring for the hospitalized patient in your charge.  The essentials of patient housing, including environmental considerations, feeding and watering, and socialization and exercise, will also be addressed. Preventative care, such as grooming, ear cleaning, nail trimming, bathing, and dipping, along with dental hygiene will be covered as well. The prevention of nosocomial infections and zoonotic diseases, and the delicate subject of euthanasia is all part of this very educational stage.

In Stage 2, the fundamentals and the fine points of animal restraint are addressed. You’ll learn the differences between various forms of physical and psychological restraint techniques. You’ll also learn the proper placement and removal of different animals from enclosures and the handling of fractious patients. You’ll learn specific restraint methods during the physical examination, and the administration of injections and venipuncture.  This veterinary assistant stage also covers the proper positioning protocols for different animals and the standard veterinary terminology for each of these positions. This stage includes two veterinary assistant training videos that visually demonstrate restraint techniques for both the cat and dog. Take a look at a preview of stage 2 here.
In Stage 5, you learn the skills to best serve the animal hospital staff before, during and after a surgical procedure. You’re given explicit instruction on how to assist with the preparation of patients using aseptic techniques and assist with positioning of surgical patients while maintaining proper operating room conduct and asepsis. This section provides detailed information on anesthetic equipment and supplies, the appropriate sterilization methods for instruments and supplies, and the identification of common instruments and suture materials—both types and sizes.  Other critical components of this section include the understanding of operating room sanitation and care protocol, operation and maintenance of autoclaves, proper storage of surgical gowns and drapes, and the identification and appropriate care of common surgical equipment and supplies along with the proper disposition of hazardous medical wastes. This stage contains five veterinary assistant training videos as well: anesthetic equipment and patient monitoring, anesthetic machine basics, patient preparation, patient monitoring, and the aseptic technique.Take a look at a preview of stage 5 here.

Stage 8 of our veterinary assistant course focuses on radiology and ultrasound imaging.  In this stage, you’re instructed on the proper techniques of radiology and ultrasound as a means of diagnoses. This includes positioning patients, basic safety practices and techniques, and proper methods of equipment, including developing film. You’ll be introduced to the basic mechanisms of how imaging for X-ray, ultrasound and endoscopy are produced. This stage also includes anatomy and physiology for small animals (cats and dogs).

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Tuition & Financing

Don’t let the high costs of other vet assistant schools hold you back from pursuing your dream career.

  • Tuition for our vet assistant program ranges from $2,999.00 USD to $5,630.00 USD, depending on your chosen payment plan.
  • This cost covers ALL learning materials, including the real world training externship (that means no hidden fees).

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Animals are always in need of your help and some employers may welcome veterinary assistants certified through a NAVTA-approved program. You can make a difference as a veterinarian assistant. Stop dreaming and start doing.

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Please note: Animal Behavior College does not guarantee employment after graduation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Students can save the most and get the biggest discount when they enroll and pay their tuition in full. While we don’t offer Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®), ABC offers a variety of loan packages that make following your dream of working in the veterinary field very affordable. Military Spouses may also qualify to take this course at no cost and many major companies including FedEx and other employers offer benefits that might allow you take this program at no cost.
ABC’s Veterinary Assistant Program is a distance learning program combined with a hands-on portion in an animal hospital or veterinary clinic in your area.  This means that the location of much of your study is your living room (or wherever you study best).  We have over 3,500 mentor locations, meaning that you can take this course without having to relocate.  Call us or complete the form to speak to an admissions counselor for more details.

All students learn and progress at different speeds but generally it takes a student 12 months to complete the program.  All students must complete this course within 18 months of enrollment. 

Not completely.  Some of the materials will be online and accessed through the student center on ABC’s website.  However, all students are assigned a Program Manager (PM) who is available to answer questions and help guide you on your journey.  All PMs are working veterinary professionals, which means they have been where you are and know the steps required to becoming a valued member of a veterinary team.  Also, don’t forget that this course also has a hands-on component in which you will be placed in a veterinary hospital or clinic so you may observe first hand many of the things you learned about in this course.

 
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