BluePearl Veterinary Partners is a community of hospitals that offer specialty and emergency veterinary medicine. BluePearl is staffed by veterinarians, veterinary technicians & other veterinary professionals who are community-focused and service-minded. We strive to create a welcoming environment for clients and their pets, even at the most stressful of times.
The primary care veterinarians who refer their clients and patients to us are our partners. BluePearl’s obligation is to work together with the primary care veterinarians to provide the best patient care available.
As important as our medical expertise is, compassion is the foundation of veterinary medicine. At BluePearl, we believe that excellent care combines state-of-the-art veterinary medicine with a focus on compassion and respect for our clients and their pets.
• We treat our patients as we treat our own pets.
• We treat our clients as we treat our family friends.
• We treat your family veterinarian as our partner.
While you are here we hope we can embolden you to hold these standards as well.
BluePearl Veterinary Partners offers externships of one to two weeks in duration to third and fourth year veterinary students. All students must be enrolled at an AVMA accredited university and have legal work status in the USA. As a comprehensive private specialty hospital, we offer rotations through the following specialties: Critical Care, Dermatology, Emergency Services, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Surgery, Cardiology and Radiology. There are other opportunities to also experience Interventional Radiology, Hemodialysis and Dentistry. Individuals are paired with an attending clinician throughout the rotation as well as the intern/resident on the service. We invite inquiries about our internship program at any time. The nature of involvement with cases is primarily an observational role although students are heavily involved in case management and discussion. Currently, externship opportunities are available at all four of our New York City hospitals.
Caseload:
The following information represents the average of cases in direct support of the externship/internship programs at all four of our New York locations:
Total No. Cases Annually-57,000
Average Daily No. Cases Presented to Hospital-156
Average No. Cases Treated Daily as Outpatients-101
Average No. of Inpatients Each Day-48
Average No. Daily Surgeries Performed-22
Average No. of Emergency Cases Seen Daily-60
Technical Staff:
Registered/Licensed/Certified Veterinary Technicians:110
Assigned to the ER/CC/ICU service per shift: 6-12 per location
Number of LVT, (VTS) on staff: 3 with 4 more in process
Faculty:
Number of Faculty/Clinicians in Direct Support of Program: 40
In addition to the above-listed specialists, we have the following residency-trained veterinarians, in the process of becoming board-certified: Neurology (1), Anesthesia (1). We also anticipate having 3 Critical Care residents and 1 specialty intern (surgery) during any given year.
Full-time senior emergency service clinicians: 18.
Other Personnel of Note:
BluePearl Veterinary Partners New York employs over 310 team-members, including our specialists, senior emergency clinicians, residents, interns, managers, supervisors, LVTs, experienced veterinary assistants, and client care coordinators.
Internship Statistics:
Number of interns in the 2016-2017 class: 23
Average number of interns who started this program per year for the past 5 years: 14
Average number of interns who completed this program per year for the past 5 years: 14
Number of interns from this program who applied for a residency in the past 5 years: 27
Number of interns from this program who accepted a residency in the past 5 years: 22
Number of interns from this program who accepted a specialty internship in the past 6 years: 17
General expectations of externs include 36-40 hour week as the service needs and attendance at didactics (rounds, journal club, and lectures). Rounds are held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and begin promptly at 8 am. We also invite you to attend continuing education opportunities hosted at our facility during your stay. The first day of your arrival, begins with a tour of the facility and introduction to your senior clinician. Please arrive at 9:30 am on your first day and 8 am each day there after (please note that if you are on ER/CC services, arrangements regarding start times will vary). Appropriate attire includes scrubs or professional dress. Scrubs are strongly encouraged due to the nature of many activities. Specific service expectations will be described once your externship schedule has been organized. There are no housing accommodations available through BluePearl.
Please note that we do not host externs from June 15-August 1 each year. This is when we are transitioning our new intern class into our hospitals.
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