Veterinary Assistant

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Career Outlook

Are you an animal lover with a deep-seated passion for animal care and well-being?

Veterinary Assistants are the unsung heroes of animal healthcare, playing a pivotal role
in ensuring the health and happiness of our beloved pets. As a Veterinary Assistant, your daily routine will encompass a diverse array of responsibilities, all centered around providing compassionate care to furry, feathered, and scaled patients.

Occupation Outlook

In the ever-evolving world of animal healthcare, the future is undeniably bright for Veterinary Assistants, and statistics lend weight to this promising outlook:

Sustained Industry Growth: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a remarkable
projected growth of 20% in the employment of veterinary assistants and laboratory
animal caretakers from 2022 to 2032. This growth rate significantly exceeds the average for all occupations, emphasizing the industry’s rapid expansion.
Pet Ownership Trends: The increasing number of pet owners who view their animals as family members fuels the demand for skilled Veterinary Assistants. As more people seek comprehensive care for their pets, the need for professionals in this field continues to rise.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of Veterinary Assistants is projected to grow 20 percent from 2022 to 2032, much faster than the average for all occupations.

About 26,800 openings for veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers are projected each year, on average, over the decade. Many of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as to retire.

See the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report for Veterinary Assistants

Program Overview

Our comprehensive training program is crafted to nurture your passion for animals and transform it into a profession filled with empathy, expertise, and enthusiasm. Our program will guide you through animal care techniques, medical terminology, and practical skills that are essential for success in the field. Ignite your passion, make a positive impact, and
embrace a future filled with boundless opportunities.

Certification

Students completing this program can sit for the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) exam administered by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA).

Certification Information

Clinical Medical Assisting

In the Clinical Medical Assisting component of the training, individuals will learn how to help the physician with patient examinations, record patient histories and personal information, measure vital signs, such as blood pressure, and give patient injections of medication as directed by the physician or dictated by state law.

Phlebotomy

The Phlebotomy component prepares professionals to collect blood and other specimens from clients for laboratory analysis. During this course component, students will become familiar with all aspects related to blood collection and develop comprehensive skills to perform venipuncture methods correctly and safely.

Electrocardiogram (EKG)

This Electrocardiogram (EKG) component covers topics and processes critical to conducting and interpreting EKGs. To begin, you’ll review the anatomy and physiology of the heart. From there, you will explore the technology used, such as the EKG machine. Next, you’ll learn how to interpret a rhythm strip, and finally, you’ll follow this by discovering the details of myocardial infarction.

Tuition
$1,895

The all-inclusive program fee covers everything a student needs to successfully complete the Clinical Medical Assisting program, including:

Tuition
Textbooks
Materials
Course fee

Payment Options

Pay Up Front - Save 10%
Military Discount - Save 10%
Monthly Payments - Interest-free installment plan
Employer Sponsorship

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This program qualifies for the MyCAA Tuition Assistance Program sponsored by the Department of Defense—a program designed for military spouses.

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Externship Program

Upon completing the online training program, a student is eligible* for our optional Veterinary Assisting Externship. The Veterinary Assistant Externship is a standard 40-hour unpaid rotation. The purpose of the Externship is two-fold: to give each student hands-on instruction and practice conducting a variety of procedures with supervision and to connect each student with a potential employer in their local market.

As a participant in this Clinical Externship, you must agree to provide a resume to their assigned Externship Coordinator no less than three weeks following initial contact. Failure to provide such a resume will result in students not participating in the externship opportunity. In addition, the following terms and conditions apply to the Externship:

All externship opportunities are subject to the facility’s availability, scheduling, and staffing needs.
Students provide their transportation to externship facilities.
Attendance and punctuality at the facility are required.
Students agree to comply with all facility policies, including, but not limited to, the policy on professionalism, dress, uniform, and proper hygiene practices for a medical setting.
The healthcare facility for which you volunteer is under no obligation to offer you employment (or any other employment benefit) after your clinical externship experience.
All externship assignments are final and remain at the discretion of the facility. Under no circumstances are we or the facility to which you are assigned considered an employer for students completing their clinical externship experience.
Additional documentation including health records, immunizations, drug screening, criminal background checks, etc. may be required by the externship facility.

By participating in this process, students are entering into an unpaid volunteer clinical externship opportunity which, at no time, constitutes an employee-employer relationship. The facility is under no obligation to continue your clinical experience, nor should you maintain these expectations.

*Students who wish to participate in this course’s optional clinical externship portion must complete their program with a grade of 70% or higher on the final exam and course average, spending at least 50 hours in the course. All externship placements are subject to the availability, scheduling, and staffing needs of the externship sites.

Is an Externship position guaranteed if I successfully complete this program?

We will coordinate an externship for each eligible student at a healthcare organization in their local area. In over eight years of providing this service, we have not had an instance where we could not do this—pandemic or no pandemic. With this said, we cannot guarantee a placement due to circumstances outside our control which include a lack of healthcare organizations located in a rural area, acts of God, situations where healthcare organizations have curtailed their operations due to a pandemic or other cause or in situations where a student chooses not to meet the outlined requirements.