One Last Summer Adventure: WVC Nashville Before School Starts

WVC Nashville runs August 15 through 18 at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee. That is the last full week before most vet school fall semesters kick in. 

Read that again.

You have one week left before the calendar locks down for the next four months. One window before rotations start, before the studying intensifies, before the summer disappears into the grind of the clinical year. And WVC is putting a world-class veterinary conference in one of the most vibrant, most fun, most genuinely exciting cities in the country right inside that window.

Nashville is going to give you hot chicken that will challenge you and music that will stay with you and a city that feels like a celebration even on a Tuesday. The honky-tonks on Lower Broadway have live music from 10am and they do not charge a cover. The Ryman Auditorium is four blocks from the Music City Center. The food scene is legitimately one of the best in the South. And the Tuesday night concert at WVC Nashville is going to be the kind of memory that gets told at every reunion for the next twenty years.

Go with your classmates. Drive down together. Split a hotel room four ways and make it a road trip. Tuskegee is four hours. UT Knoxville is three. Auburn is under four. Mississippi State is under four. Lincoln Memorial is three hours right down the road. Kentucky is three hours north. There are vet schools within a reasonable drive of Nashville in every direction and if you are at one of them you have no logistical excuse not to be there.

The Practical Details

Student registration is free. US and international students can register online or on-site. You must present your current school ID at badge pickup or on-site registration. 

Note one important detail: DVM student registration does not apply to DVM graduates with a residency or internship status. If you are a current enrolled student you are good. Bring your ID. Get your badge. Walk in.

Hands-on labs are not included in the base registration and require an additional purchase — so if there is a specific lab you want, budget for that separately and sign up early because they fill fast.

Hotel room blocks are available near the Music City Center at WVC attendee rates. Book early. Nashville in August is busy and the rooms close to the conference will go.

Register now at viticusgroup.org/wvc-nashville.

You Are Going to Be a Doctor

Not in the abstract, not someday, not eventually. You are going to be a doctor. And the doctors who build the careers they want — the ones who feel connected, who feel supported, who feel like they belong in this profession, are the ones who started showing up before they had the title.

WVC Nashville is where you start showing up.

The registration is free. The opportunity is real. The conference is August 15 through 18. Nashville is ready for you.

We will be there. Come find us.