NAVTA, AVMA, Merck Animal Health, Royal Canin, and MentorVet have announced a groundbreaking collaboration to support the wellbeing and professional growth of veterinary technicians. This new partnership will provide 300 fully funded scholarships for MentorVet Tech, an evidence-based mentorship and professional development program designed to help veterinary technicians thrive in their careers.

MentorVet will launch a new pilot program beginning January 2024 to support and grow mentors in the veterinary medicine community. Providing quality mentoring is vital, and MentorVet Lift was designed to ripple out evidence-based mentoring practices.

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians and MentorVet collaborated in the Spring of 2023 to offer 5 full scholarships to swine veterinarians early in their careers. After a successful pilot, AASV has now approved funding of 5 additional scholarships for early-career swine vets to participate in the 2024 MentorVet Leap program.

We are excited to announce the winners of the MentorVet Tech scholarship program!

During the 30th anniversary of Veterinary Technician Week,  Covetrus®, collaborated with the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and Pets Best to provide mentoring scholarships for 35 veterinary technicians through MentorVet Tech.

"The NAVC is pleased to partner with MentorVet to help reach, recruit, and engage veterinary nurses and technicians to be part of this program,” said NAVC CEO, Gene O'Neill. “It is a perfect complement and extension of the NAVC Veterinary Nurse Empowerment Initiative we launched in 2021 to help support and elevate veterinary nurses and technicians in their careers. As the first conference to focus exclusively on veterinary nurses and technicians, HiVE provides the perfect venue to make MentorVet Tech accessible to many veterinary nurses and technicians.”

"Veterinary technicians are the heart of veterinary practices, and we recognize and honor them this year for all they do each and every day," said Matt Yordy, president of of Covetrus North America.

MentorVet is excited to announce a new partnership with Chewy Health, the dedicated healthcare arm of Chewy, to support veterinary medical associations in establishing evidence-based mentorship programming that will provide early career veterinarians with critical tools for professional development, financial coaching and mental health support. Chewy Health has committed to sponsoring full scholarships for members of veterinary medical associations across the country to participate in MentorVet Leap.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has joined MentorVet to launch MentorVet Connect, a structured mentorship program that connects early-career veterinarians with trained mentors who can offer invaluable support and guidance, providing new veterinarians with free access to an established and proven mentoring platform.

MentorVet, a rapidly growing entity that leverages evidence-based approaches to empower individuals to thrive within veterinary medicine, has just released their yearly impact report revealing that their flagship program, the MentorVet Program, supported over 200 early-career veterinarians over the past year. This report highlighted evidence that after completing the program, MentorVet participants had a significantly higher average wellbeing level as compared to a control group.

We are so thrilled to announce the formation of the MentorVet Advisory Board! Our Founder, Addie Reinhard, has been diligently and intentionally building this team for the last six months. Through this process, we have very thoughtfully chosen each one of these individuals to support the MentorVet vision because of their expertise and most perhaps importantly—their commitment and desire to enact positive change within the veterinary profession.

Lexington-based MentorVet won the fifth annual VMX Startup Pet Pitch Competition, a highlight of the North American Veterinary Community’s (NAVC) veterinary conference and expo. More than 35 companies applied to the VMX Startup Circle which highlights young and innovative startups offering products and solutions to the veterinary industry. Five finalists were invited to pitch their new products in front of a panel of judges at the Pet Pitch Competition held Sunday, January 16 on the VMX Expo Floor.

Five finalists are vying to win a business pitch competition hosted by the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) during the Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX) in Orlando, Florida. They include a mentorship and professional development program, a cloud solution for practice management, an automated blood counting tool, an inventory management solution, and a holistic parasite prevention solution.

Community Veterinary Partners (CVP) is one of the first groups of animal hospitals to be partnering with Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside the US and Canada, to bring the newest mentorship program, MentorVet, to 50 of its newest Veterinarians.