Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians - OAVT

12/30/2025

🚨There is only one day left to nominate yourself or another member in good standing to run in the upcoming OAVT Board of Directors election.🚨

Right now, we do not have enough candidates who have completed their nomination packages to fill all three available seats. Of the five people who expressed interest in running, only one has submitted a package.

If you want to lead the OAVT into the future, making decisions that will guide the Association through the transition to a single mandate and help advocate for RVTs, this is your moment.

Fill out a nomination form today by clicking here:
https://oavt.org/2026-board-of-directors-nomination-form/

Nominations close December 31 at 5 p.m.
You have until January 15 to submit your nomination package.

12/30/2025

Christina Miller, RVT, BSc, VTS (CP-Exotics), is bringing a full slate of sessions to the 2026 OAVT Conference!

Christina is the exotic companion animal dept. lead at Coastal Care Veterinary Emergency and Referral Hospital.

Click the link below to learn more and to register!
https://oavt.org/2026-oavt-conference/

12/29/2025

Early-bird pricing ends January 9! Act now and save $35 off a regular Conference pass.

With 10 tracks and over 20 speakers, you don't want to miss this amazing CE opportunity!

Click the link below to learn more and register.

https://oavt.org/2026-oavt-conference/

12/25/2025

12/22/2025

📢RVTs were BIG NEWS in 2025!📢

Veterinary Practice News released their top 10 news stories of the year, and "Legislative milestone for RVTs in Ontario" was ranked sixth.

You can read the article here:
https://www.veterinarypracticenews.ca/legislative-milestone-for-rvts-in-ontario/

12/19/2025

The Ontario Animal Health Network (OAHN) has launched its companion animal survey to gather clinical impressions from May through August. If you're an Ontario veterinarian or registered veterinary technician practicing on companion animals, you’re invited to fill out the survey. To view the recent OAHN companion animal report, visit the OAHN website.

Survey: https://uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7adUPmjhEHuJBie

The OAHN Equine Network has launched its Q4 2025 (Oct-Dec) equine practitioner survey. This survey is open to all equine vets, RVTs, and clinic managers in Ontario, and is a place to tell us what you have been seeing in practice the past three months. Your responses are kept anonymous, and this data helps with Ontario equine disease surveillance. Click here to fill out the Q4 2025 Equine Practitioner survey:

https://uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2t1YE8lDI22rk7c

Both surveys will close the morning of January 19, 2026.

12/18/2025

We're taking a little break.

Our office will be closed for the holidays beginning at 1 p.m. on December 23. We will reopen on January 2 at 8 a.m.

We hope you and yours have a relaxing and joyous holiday season.

12/17/2025

There are only a few weeks left to nominate yourself or another RVT to join our Board of Directors.

As a director, you’ll help set the priorities of the Association, all while getting CE credits, getting your dues and Conference pass covered, and gaining leadership and governance experience that will make your resume stand out!
Fill out a nomination form before the December 31 deadline and be the one to create a bright future for the OAVT!

Click below to fill out the nomination form.

https://oavt.org/2026-board-of-directors-nomination-form/

12/17/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Louise Kelly, who is now the President of the College of Veterinarians of Ontario. A graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Dr. Kelly is currently a locum veterinarian working throughout Ontario. Dr. Kelly was elected to the College Council in 2022 and has served on the Executive Committee since 2024. The College and its Council are committed to supporting the delivery of safe, quality veterinary medicine in Ontario.

12/16/2025

🚨Speaker Highlight!🚨

After completing a Kinesiology degree at McMaster University, Christina discovered the field of veterinary physical rehabilitation—an area that perfectly blended her background in movement science with her lifelong love of animals. She went on to graduate from the Veterinary Technician program at Seneca College in 2015 and became a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner through the University of Tennessee in 2016.

Christina has more than seven years of experience in shelter medicine, working as a Registered Veterinary Technician at the Toronto Humane Society. There, she developed and led the shelter’s physical rehabilitation program, focusing on improving mobility, comfort, and function in some of the most vulnerable animals as they prepared for adoption.

She has a special interest in assistive devices and has worked as an animal orthoses and prostheses assistant at PawsAbility under the guidance of certified prosthetist Janice Olynich. Her dedication to comprehensive patient care led her to obtain the Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner designation through the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management in 2022. She is also a Fear Free Certified Professional, committed to supporting both the physical and emotional well-being of every patient.

Christina now brings her expertise in rehabilitation, pain management, and assistive technologies to the Toronto Veterinary Rehabilitation Centre, where she continues to help animals regain mobility and thrive.

Don't miss out on these amazing sessions! Register today!

https://oavt.org/2026-oavt-conference/

12/11/2025

Are you a student member of the OAVT who’s in your final year of a Veterinary Technician program? Check out these two opportunities that are available for you!

Student Bursary: https://form.jotform.com/OAVT/student-bursary-application

Career Booster: https://form.jotform.com/243516905197059

12/08/2025

The RVT Journal has been a trusted and reliable source of information that helps to educate OAVT members about veterinary industry trends, advance RVT knowledge, share research and new developments in animal health, and provide a convenient pathway for RVTs to collect continuing education credits.

As the publisher of this professional periodical for RVTs in Ontario, our goal is to provide you, our valued member, with relevant industry information, and allow you to connect with your professional community. Now, we’re making it easier for you to do that. Starting with the spring 2026 issue, The RVT Journal will switch to become an online-only publication.

Why switch now?
Given Canada Post’s rotating strikes, and the unreliable delivery they’ve provided over the past several years, we’ve decided that the time is right for us to make the switch. As a not-for-profit organization, keeping costs to a minimum for our members has always been a priority for our Board of Directors and the Association overall. Due to the rising costs of paper, printing, and postage, The Journal, in its current form, ends up costing the OAVT close to $30,000 annually to produce, despite any revenue generated through advertisements.

The benefits of online and mobile access:
We fully understand that we have members who will miss the screen-free, tactile experience provided by a hardcopy magazine. We, too, are sad to be putting our printed publication “to bed” for the final time, but the benefits of moving to an online format far outweigh the disadvantages:

• As a not-for-profit association, we want to be financially responsible, and environmentally conscious. An online publication will keep costs at a minimum, and a reduction in our paper and ink consumption will be a small way we can help Mother Nature.
• You can expect the same quality of educational content and convenient CE quizzes, but they will be easier to get. Online and mobile access mean you can read any issue of The Journal virtually anywhere, at any time.
• Articles and advertisements can include things like links, videos, and audio clips, which provide increased functionality to readers, the potential to interact with companies, and a more autonomous user experience.
• Costs associated with returned journals and the environmental impact of recycling them will become obsolete.

To make the switch, just log in to your Member Portal and click on the RVT Journal tab on the left menu and then click RVT Digital Edition.

As an association that is facing some momentous change, we see this digital switch as another opportunity for growth. We’re excited to embrace this new era of content sharing and hope you’ll enjoy all the enhancements and convenience it offers.