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The first is an in-person advisory committee meeting consisting of educational experts and key stakeholders (10\u201315 people) to build the framework of the assessment, based on identified foundational knowledge and skills (common across schools) at a specific time point (e.g., graduation). Key documents used to guide these discussions could include information on the type of assessment (low-stakes or high-stakes assessments), the types of items to be used (i.e., multiple-choice questions), and competency frameworks from which to build the assessment (i.e., the Competency-Based Veterinary Education framework and the Council on Education competencies). The second phase involves engaging the broader community in a validation step, via a modified Delphi procedure, to review the content and provide emphasis on those areas. Here, we outline the steps of the rapid blueprinting process to build a test blueprint for academic veterinary medicine progress test in North America. 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