At MentorVet, we are making veterinary medicine a more sustainable profession for all and we need your help. Whether you are a veterinarian, practice manager, or technician wanting to offer better mentorship structures to individuals in your practice or working in academia or in a veterinary medical organization wanting to learn how to better support those around you, MentorVet Lift will provide you the tools and education to effectively help others.

A Veterinary Mentor
Certificate Program

A yearlong robust evidence-based veterinary mentor certificate program open to any individual associated with the veterinary profession interested:

  • becoming a more effective mentor

  • learning skills to create and evaluate intentional mentorship structures

  • connecting with other mentors

About MentorVet Lift

  • The self-paced, interactive modules cover a wide variety of professional skills topics to give you the education you need to support others. You will learn about topics such as:

    Sustainable Career Practices

    Emotional Intelligence in Mentorship

    Effective Communication in Mentoring

    Conflict Management

    Creating and Evaluating Mentorship Programming

    Wellbeing & Emotional Support

    Inclusive Mentoring Practices

  • A toolkit of mentoring resources are provided within the curriculum including handouts, articles, PDFs, and other resources to help you create your own successful mentoring relationships and programming.

  • Gain peer support from fellow mentors. Program participants will meet once a month virtually for 1 to 2 hours in facilitated small peer groups to discuss program material and how it can be applied to their work.

  • Participants complete a capstone project to apply the mentoring practices that they are learning to develop their own mentoring structures within their organizations, hospitals, or communities.

  • This is a year-long mentor certificate program with an estimated time commitment of four to seven hours per month. The program will extend from June 17, 2024 - June 31, 2025.

  • The program costs $3499 per participant. We offer payment plans if needed.

  • You meet the requirements for the program if you fit into any of the following categories:

    *Licensed or formerly licensed veterinarian or veterinary technician with at least three years of experience

    *Veterinary assistant, practice manager, executive director, academic instructor, or other individual associated with the veterinary profession with at least three years full-time experience

    *Completion of MentorVet Leap or MentorVet Tech program

Course Instructors

  • Addie Reinhard, DVM, MS

    Facilitator & Course Instructor

  • Sam Romano, DVM, MBA, ACC

    Facilitator & Course Instructor

  • Daniel Stillwell, PhD, LMFT

    Course Instructor

  • Sonja Olson, DVM

    Course Instructor

  • James Desir, DVM, CCRP

    Course Instructor

  • Danielle Alleman, DVM

    Course Instructor

  • Mariel Hendricks, BS, RVT

    Course Instructor

Who’s It For?

These are just a few examples of ways in which the program might be implemented!

  • Learn skills to creatie mentorship structures for onboarding new veterinary graduates or veterinary technicians.

  • Learn skills to create a mentorship program for your organization using evidence-based practices.

  • Hone your mentoring skills so you can provide better support to the people around you.

  • Gain the knowledge to provide effective mentorship to your team members.

  • Learn evidence-based mentoring practices to better support your students.

  • Our program provides support to others in the veterinary industry who are interested in learning how to provide the most effective mentorship possible.

Have questions about the program?

“MentorVet has not only developed a unique platform to help fill the mentoring gap that currently exists within veterinary medicine, but it has also really 'professionalized' the process of mentorship through training, connection, and community. This has provided valuable skills and guidance for me to be more effective personally, and overall, it results in a much better experience for both the mentors and mentees involved”

Brent Mayabb, DVM
Global Chief Medical Officer
Royal Canin