The standard setters.
Across every profession.
Veterinary nurses and specialist vets — together at the governance table. The VIPER Standards Board is the first clinical governance body in veterinary education built to give both professions equal authority over the standards they both deliver.
Three tiers.
One clinical ecosystem.
VIPER operates across three distinct tiers — each with a defined mandate and a specific relationship to the others. Tier 3 is the governance layer: it sets the standards that Tier 2 teaches and Tier 1 delivers.
Tier 1
Point of Care
Founding specialists and nurses on the ground in India — delivering clinical care, building services, mentoring at the bedside.
Tier 2
Clinical Faculty
Remote-first specialist educators and nurse instructors — leading board rounds, recorded teaching, formal assessment, and journal club.
Tier 3
Standards Board
The interprofessional governance body — setting clinical standards, designing examinations, and certifying competency across all professions.
You are hereStandards that reflect
how care actually works
Clinical care in a veterinary hospital is not delivered by one profession. A patient's outcome depends on the nurse who monitors overnight, the technician who runs the bloodwork, the GP who first identified the problem, the intern who escalates at the right moment, and the specialist who makes the call.
Standards set by one profession alone miss the full picture. The VIPER Standards Board brings specialist vets and veterinary nurses together as equal governance partners — because clinical standards only hold when every profession that delivers care helped define them.
- Standards developed jointly by specialist vets and veterinary nurses
- Examination content that reflects both veterinary and nursing clinical realities
- Separate but integrated certification pathways for nurses and vets
- Assessment frameworks that honour both professions' scope of practice
- Instructor assessment standards applied consistently across both professions
Four governance domains.
One coherent standard.
The Standards Board operates across four domains — each essential to the integrity of the VIPER clinical training system.
Domain 01
Clinical Standard Setting
Defining the minimum clinical competency standards for every profession and every discipline within the VIPER system. These standards inform what Tier 2 teaches and what Tier 1 is expected to deliver — and are reviewed as evidence and practice evolve.
Domain 02
Examination Design & Delivery
Designing and delivering the formal assessment instruments that evaluate clinical competency at defined milestones. Written examinations, OSCEs, structured clinical assessments — all developed to interprofessional standards and reviewed for validity and fairness.
Domain 03
Instructor Assessment
Assessing and certifying the clinical educators who teach within the VIPER system — Tier 2 faculty and Tier 1 on-the-ground mentors alike. Establishing what good teaching looks like and holding the standard consistently across all instructors.
Domain 04
Interprofessional Certification
Awarding formal certification to trainees who complete defined competency pathways — across nursing, technical, and veterinary tracks. Certification that carries real authority because it is designed and overseen by an interprofessional board, not a single specialty group.
- Veterinary nurses — clinical and advanced practice
- Veterinary nurse educators and lead instructors
- Specialist veterinarians from core clinical disciplines
- Specialist vet educators with academic or faculty experience
Both professions.
Equal authority.
The board is not a specialist committee with a nurse representative added as an afterthought. Veterinary nurses and specialist vets hold equal governance authority — with voting rights on the standards that affect both professions' practice.
If you have spent your career practising within standards set without your profession's full input — this is the board that changes that model.
Professions. Equal seats.
Specialist vets and veterinary nurses — both at the governance table
Governance domains
Standards · Examination · Instructor · Certification
In India
Interprofessional clinical standards board in veterinary medicine
A seat at the table
that hasn't existed before.
If you believe clinical standards should be set by every profession that delivers clinical care — read about the board mandate or start a conversation.