CVTEA Essential Skills

The easiest way to document CVTEA Essential Skills

Spend less time documenting student skills and more time educating. Built and refined with hands-on feedback from educators, this is the new best practice for documenting skills.

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Best practice for documenting CVTEA Essential Skills

The Salt House is the modern best practice for Vet Tech educational programs to document CVTEA Essential Skills for accreditation. The CVTEA Accreditation Policies and Procedures Appendix G outlines the skills required and recommended by the AVMA's CVTEA for each student graduating from an accredited Vet Tech program. Vet Tech programs are required to document this in order to gain or maintain CVTEA accreditation. For many Vet Tech schools this can be a daunting task.

Documenting CVTEA skills is time consuming

The CVTEA requirements indicate that an accredited Vet Tech school must document their student's progress within the list of essential skills. The essential skill list includes hundreds of tasks and when you multiply that times the number of vet tech students in your program you've quickly got a large job on your hand just documenting skills for accreditation.

Many programs are still using pen and paper to track each student's progress with the CVTEA essential skills. Recording student essential skills progress on paper has some big drawbacks: skill tracker binders get lost, accountability is unclear, and you have to somehow store all the completed binders for years after the student has graduated from your program.

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Introducing Salt House Pro

Salt House Pro is the next evolution of the Salt House platform. While Salt House is built to support veterinary technician education programs, Salt House Pro will extend the same structured approach to skill tracking and professional development to individuals, clinics, and certification providers across the veterinary profession.

The goal is simple: provide a shared system for documenting real-world skills, tracking professional growth, and supporting industry certifications throughout a veterinary career.

  • Individual skill tracking for veterinary professionals
  • Certification and competency programs from industry providers
  • Documentation of clinical experience and continuing education
  • A portable professional record that grows throughout a career
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