Utilizing the veterinary team to improve access to care

Jenny Cassibry Fisher, RVT, VTS (Oncology), director of medical excellence for Mission Pet Health (formerly SVP + MVP), discusses how skilled technicians and assistants can help provide veterinary health services to more patients in a dvm360 interview. A continuing education presenter at the 2025 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Forum in Louisville, Kentucky, Fisher spoke to attendees about veterinary team collaboration for managing complicated diseases in patients during one of her lectures. Her talk emphasized how utilizing the advanced skills and knowledge of credential veterinary technician specialists brings value to the team.

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The following is a transcript of the video:

Jenny Cassibry Fisher, RVT, VTS (Oncology): One of the ways that veterinary professionals can help decrease the care gap that exists, which is the care that a pet should receive and then the care that they actually do receive. So, one of the ways that we can help reduce that care gap is by utilizing our veterinary technician specialists. Truly is that mid-level practitioner position, utilizing their skills and knowledge, utilizing our credential technicians to the fullest scope of their license as well, which opens up and allows our veterinary assistants to also be an extremely important and vital part of the veterinary health care team. Utilizing all 3 of those positions to the fullest extent of how they were designed is going to only help us to decrease that care gap and hopefully offer more care to more patients.

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