Four Days Free for Vet Students. 400 Hours of Education. Zero Excuses.

Vet Candy’s Dr. Shannon Gregoire has a message for vet students: WVC Nashville is free for you. So what's stopping you?

There are certain moments in vet school where someone delivers a reality check that actually sticks. This is one of them.

Dr. Shannon Gregoire is delivering a message straight to vet students: WVC Nashville 2026 is free for you. Not discounted. Not a scholarship. Free. Your student ID is literally the only thing you need.

That changes the math on this decision pretty significantly. Sign up here: WVC Nashville Free for Vet Students

What You're Actually Getting

Four hundred hours of continuing education. Over 300 exhibitors. Fifteen-plus hands-on labs. A Tuesday night concert. August 15 through 18 in Nashville, Tennessee.

This isn't a small conference. This is one of the biggest gatherings in vet medicine, full stop. And you get to be there without paying for registration.

But the real value isn't in the number of hours or the cool labs. It's in the people.

The People Who Will Shape Your Career

Here's what Dr. Gregoire really wants you to understand: the specialists, the practice owners, the mentors, the recruiters in that building are the people who are going to shape the first ten years of your career. And you get to be in the room with them.

Think about that for a second. You're not reading about them in a textbook. You're not watching them on a screen. You're standing next to them, asking questions, making connections, being seen.

The conversations you have in that building matter. The contacts you make might become mentors, collaborators, future colleagues, or employers. The advice you get from people further along than you is worth more than any single lecture.

And it's free for you to be there.

What's Your Excuse?

Dr. Gregoire doesn't ask this aggressively. She asks it like she genuinely wants to know. Because the cost barrier is gone. The registration fee isn't stopping you. Your school ID gets you in. So what is stopping you?

If you're worried about logistics, figure it out. If you're worried about not knowing anyone, everyone there is in the same boat at some point. If you're worried about not being ready, that's literally what the conference is for.

WVC Nashville is designed for people exactly where you are right now. Vet students who want to get confident, get connected, and go all in.

Register and Get There

Registration is open now. Bring your school ID to badge pickup. That's literally it. Everything else is Nashville.

Four days. Free. The people who are going to matter to your career. And a Tuesday night concert.

What are you waiting for? Sign up here: WVC Nashville Free for Vet Students