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Board to pursue rule change on RBT equivalency, clinical‑hours and supervisor attestations; sends checklist and foreign‑training questions back to MDC
Summary
The California Veterinary Medical Board directed its MDC subcommittee to pursue rulemaking to update Registered Veterinary Technician pathways, reducing some clinical‑hour barriers and clarifying supervising‑veterinarian attestations while the subcommittee refines a supervising checklist and foreign‑training rules.
The California Veterinary Medical Board authorized further rulemaking work and directed the Medical Doctor‑Technician (MDC) subcommittee to refine several items related to RVT/RBT registration pathways and clinical practice experience.
Key points: The MDC recommended initiating rulemaking to amend California Code of Regulations section 2068.5 to remove the ‘‘qualified instructor’’ pathway for substituting education, reduce the required directed clinical practice hours for a combined education/experience route from 4,416 hours to 2,500 hours, and to allow greater use of supervised clinical experience obtained outside California for applicants from other U.S. states or Canadian provinces. The board did not vote to finalize every regulatory text at the meeting; instead the MDC was instructed to continue work on two topics the board flagged for more…
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