Group Rates

One Team. One Standard of Senior Dog Care.

Senior dogs are a significant part of everyday practice, and the best outcomes happen when your whole team shares the same approach.

757+ members enrolled
Team pricing
$249 per person to start
Savings scale with your team size
  • One team rate across both membership levels
  • Immediate access as soon as your team enrolls
  • RACE-approved CE for every role in the practice
By the numbers

Senior Dog Certification by the Numbers

A growing community of professionals raising the standard of senior care.

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Certificates awarded across 2 RACE-approved CE courses
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Built for whole practices

Why Practices Certify the Whole Team

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Consistent Care, Every Visit

A shared senior-visit workflow across doctors, RVTs, assistants, and client service, so screening, diagnostics, and chronic pain follow-up run the same way in every room.

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Growth You Can Measure

Clearer communication improves plan acceptance. Stronger continuity drives rechecks, monitoring, and long-term care — higher-value senior medicine, delivered the right way.

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Clients Who Trust the Plan

Earlier conversations, fewer rushed decisions, and consistent messaging from exam room to checkout. Pet parents understand the plan, and follow through on it.

The payoff

Outcomes From Certifying Your Whole Team

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Better Medicine & Flow

  • More consistent senior screening and visit structure
  • Cleaner diagnostic planning and timing
  • Stronger chronic pain continuity and follow-up
  • Aligned anesthesia, dentistry, nutrition, and end-of-life planning
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Better Client Experience

  • Earlier conversations and fewer rushed decisions
  • Care plans pet parents actually understand
  • Consistent messaging from room to checkout
  • Stronger follow-through, rechecks, and long-term planning
How it works

Senior Dog Group Certification Enrollment Is Simple

Group rates start at $249 per person and are based on your total team size across both membership levels — the bigger the team, the bigger the savings.

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Request Your Group Pricing

Tell us how many team members you'd like to certify at each level. A practice enrolling 4 doctors at Advanced and 6 support staff at Standard qualifies for 10-member group pricing across the board.

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We Build Your Team Rate

We'll put together the best rate for your team based on your total headcount — one team rate that covers both membership levels.

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Your Team Gets Access Immediately

As soon as your team enrolls, every member gets access to the prerecorded certification modules in the Senior Dog Vets Learning Center.

Membership levels

Two Membership Levels, One Team Rate

Your group rate is based on your total team size across both levels, so every role in the practice counts toward your savings.

Level 1 · Standard

For Your Support Team

Receptionists, assistants, and support staff at every level.

  • 5 hours of RACE-approved CE
  • A foundation in the senior-visit framework
  • Consistent client communication training, starting at the front desk
Level 2 · Advanced

For Your Clinical Team

Veterinarians, specialists, credentialed technicians, and experienced assistants.

  • 12.5 hours of RACE-approved CE
  • Advanced canine geroscience training
  • Senior Dog Certified directory listing upon completion
Included for every member

Every Membership Includes

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RACE-Approved CE

Up to 12.5 hours of RACE-approved CE in the certification courses, with additional senior-dog CE in development.

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Certified Directory Listing

Professionals who complete certification are listed in the Senior Dog Certified Directory, where pet parents look for senior care.

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Private Online Community

A members-only space for veterinary professionals to connect, share cases, and grow together.

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CE Webinar Series

Bimonthly webinars on geriatric medicine topics for additional CE, included with membership.

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Virtual Rounds with Specialists

Discuss real cases, ask questions, and get practical advice from specialists across geriatric medicine.

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Founded by Experts

Built by Dr. Monica Tarantino, Lauren Adelman, DVM, DACVIM, and Dr. Lisa Lippman, with training grounded in the latest developments in canine geroscience.

Our sponsors

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors

The partners helping us raise the standard of senior dog care.

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FAQs

Group Rate FAQs

You have questions. We have answers.

Group rates start at $249 per person. They are based on the total number of team members across both membership levels, so a practice enrolling 4 doctors at Advanced and 6 support staff at Standard qualifies for 10-member group pricing across the board. Request pricing and we'll put together the best rate for your team.
The certification program is open to veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and veterinary support staff at all levels. Standard membership is built for support staff; Advanced is geared toward doctors, technicians, and experienced assistants with a hands-on role in patient care.
Immediately. New members get access to the prerecorded certification modules in the Senior Dog Vets Learning Center as soon as they enroll.
Absolutely. Our founders, Dr. Monica Tarantino, DVM, Dr. Lisa Lippman, DVM, and Dr. Lauren Adelman, DVM, DACVIM, share how much they continue to learn from fellow specialists and veterinarians across different areas of geriatric medicine through this program.
This certification is designed to help practitioners become senior-dog-focused clinicians with access to advanced training in the latest developments in canine geroscience. At this time, there is no formal specialty in geriatric canine medicine, and this certification does not create one.
Certification is renewed annually. To maintain Senior Dog Certified status and stay listed in the directory, members complete 4 additional hours of Senior Dog Vets–specific CE each year and keep an active membership through an annual renewal.