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To provide additional in-depth training in feline-only medicine, including fear-free handling, common medical and surgical conditions, performing thorough physical exams, common dental issues, and the critical ways in which cats' medical needs are different from dogs'. Conditions that will be explored in-depth include (but not limited to) chronic intestinal disease, chronic kidney disease, dentistry, anesthesia (including how to modify anesthetic and surgical procedures in cats with co-morbidities), immunology, diagnosing and treating inappropriate elimination and FIC, and common respiratory and ocular conditions.
Our practice is AAHA-accredited and AAFP Feline friendly. Dr Pizzuli is board certified in Feline Practice and Veterinary Preventive Medicine.
We are a three doctor mixed animal practice where students can shadow and assist in appointments, surgeries and farm calls.
GENERAL SMALL ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY. SHELTER MEDICINE WITH RETIRED RACING GREYOUNDS AND OTHER SIGHTHOUNDS
Do you care where the veterinary profession is going? Do you read about the effects of changing laws, health insurance reforms and pharmaceuticals on human medicine and how they impact veterinary medicine? Do you plan to own your veterinary practice and navigate the world of human resources on your own? Do you plan to work in a veterinary practice? Do you want to gain concrete experience in what makes a successful veterinary practice? If so, we invite you to apply for an externship with Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc.
The externship is a 3-4-week hands-on opportunity for 3rd and 4th year veterinary students to work with Dr. Charlotte Lacroix on issues affecting veterinary medicine, including analysis of emerging business and legal issues, employer/employee contract negotiations, the buying and selling of veterinary practices, and the relationship between practice owners. Whether you are considering attending law or business school in the future, hope to learn more about running a successful practice or simply want to learn more about the challenges confronting the veterinary profession, your externship will broaden your view of veterinary medicine, the business, commercial, legal and ethical concerns it must address, and teach you about the practical “business” of being a veterinarian.
During your externship, you will participate in conferences with clients and learn first-hand the concerns faced by practice owners and their employees. You will analyze employment agreements and learn what makes a fair deal as well as what you, as a prospective employer or employee, will want to consider in your own contracts. Listening to clients and assisting with the drafting of new agreements, settlements, and legal communications, will offer you practical insight into how contract failures and disputes occur and how to resolve them. You may participate in practice purchase and sale negotiations, learning how practice sales are financed and conducted--it’s a lot more than just signing on a dotted line--and how to structure relationships among owners in practice buy-ins. You will gain valuable concrete experience as to what makes a successful veterinary practice and how to improve it, whether by increasing earnings, revamping compensation and/or profits, improving employee’ morale, leveraging staff, or achieving a higher quality of medicine. You will research emerging legal and ethical issues, evaluate how they may impact veterinarians and how you can influence the future of veterinary medicine.
Besides working closely with Dr. Lacroix, you will research and write about a topic that interests you (recent projects have included: preparing for natural disaster, vaccine liability, electronic medical records, business ethics and profit-making, the emergence of holistic veterinary medicine, competing with internet pharmacies and pet guardianship vs. pet ownership). Depending on the length of your externship, you may write an article suitable for publication in a veterinary journal and develop a Power Point presentation.
As a point of interest and since we are so close to New York City, many of our externs have enjoyed occasional weekends exploring the sites.
Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc. is committed to teaching and strives to involve students and promote their participation in an interesting, diverse, and eye-opening practical learning opportunity. In addition to receiving unique exposure to the business and legal aspects of the veterinary profession, you will be provided with free room, board and parking and depending on your school, you may also receive credits for the externship.
Should you wish to apply for a position within our externship, please complete the application which can be found online by visiting the “About Us” page on our website at www.veterinarybusinessadvisors.com.
The Animal Eye Institute provides a two or three week rotation of veterinary ophthalmology. Extern will be present for all surgeries and clinical appointments throughout the day. Extern will have exposure to schirmer tear testing, tonometry, fluorescein staining, direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy. Extern will be exposed to various diseases and their respective treatment and prognosis.
This will be a peak into the workings of a busy private corporate owned practice - we see a variety of animals including exotics and we perform a number of surgeries.
We are an AAHA small animal hospital focusing on cats and dogs. The students' experience will include contact with the public through office calls/appointments and the art of communication to clients. They will have the opportunity to communicate to clients reporting (only) normal laboratory results. Outside of the exam room, students will be questioned regarding their ideas on individual medical cases. And they will be exposed to abnormal lab results and given a chance to give their list of differentials. Students will have exposure to and active involvement with a variety of surgeries, digital radiology, dental prophies and oral surgery. And they will be guided through anesthetic protocols and anesthetic monitoring. We want any student's experience to be a combination of hands-on techniques as well as a primary focus on SOAP based thinking.
Student will be allowed to participate in routine well pet exam appointments, urgent care\emergency appointments, physical exams, scrub in on surgeries and dental procedures. If comfortable, student will be allowed to do spay\neuters on the local shelter dogs\cats.
Our hospital is a full service mixed animal hospital. We perform a variety of surgeries and procedures for all animals. We also offer general practice services.