Charge/Objective:
To recognize veterinary technician training programs that are fully capable of graduating acceptable assistants for veterinarians and to assist in the development of such programs; and to study all matters pertaining to activities of veterinary technicians, and to advise the Executive Board concerning the implementation of AVMA policy concerning such matters.

Travel:
Each member is expected to attend 2, 3-day meetings; 1 in the spring and 1 in the fall. Meetings are held in Schaumburg, IL. In addition, each member will make an average of 1 or 2 evaluation site visit trips to the veterinary technology programs annually.

Representation:
The Committee consists of 19 members. The membership includes ten veterinarians—1 each from the following categories: Council on Education, state boards of examiners in veterinary medicine, private large animal practice, private small animal practice, laboratory animal medicine, regulatory veterinary medicine, industrial veterinary medicine, faculties of colleges of veterinary medicine, educators of veterinary technicians, and at-large. In addition, the Committee includes six veterinary technicians (2 of whom are non-program affiliated, and 1 who must be an educator in a veterinary technician program), a Canadian member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) Animal Health Technologist/Veterinary Technician Program Accreditation Committee (AHTVTPAC) who may be either a veterinarian or a veterinary technician, and 2 public members who must be engaged in activity other than veterinary medicine or employment as a veterinary technician. All technician members must be members in good standing of the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America.