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The Epidemiology Elective Program (EEP) introduces senior medical and veterinary students to preventive medicine, public health, and applied epidemiology through hands-on experience and mentorship by CDC epidemiologists. This year-round program offers 6 to 8 week assignments, depending on the student’s program of study and elective schedule. Most assignments are based at CDC in Atlanta, GA. More information is available at: https://www.cdc.gov/epielective/
Individual elective experiences vary depending on circumstances, but our goal is to provide students with exposure to the core public health functions of surveillance and outbreak response. Some students are able to participat in Epi-Aid field investigations.
The University of Florida Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory's Fish Disease Diagnostic Lab offers 4 - 8 week externship opportunities to veterinary students interested in aquatic animal medicine. Veterinary externs assist faculty and staff with all diagnostic lab duties and may assist with aquaculture and non-native species related activities at the laboratory when necessary. Because the Lab is in the heart of the aquarium fish industry, our veterinary externship allows for full engagement with ornamental (aquarium fish) and other aquaculture producers, including assistance with on-farm and laboratory diagnostics, fish health management recommendations, and extension outreach programs. Externs may spend time working one-on-one with farmers, faculty, and staff and gain direct exposure to aquaculture medicine, aquaculture production techniques, non-native species, and regulatory concerns. The importance of water quality, production systems and methodology, biosecurity, and herd health management are emphasized throughout the rotation.
The Diagnostic Lab serves commercial Florida fish producers, wholesalers, and retailers as well as state agencies. Services offered include water chemistry testing, parasitology, bacteriology, histology, and virology. The laboratory has a full-time veterinary staff and also works collaboratively with other veterinary specialists and laboratories throughout the state and U.S. The Lab sees approximately 250 - 300 cases a year. Ornamental fish species comprise the largest number of cases, though foodfish, gamefish, and baitfish cases are also seen throughout the year. Other cases may include aquatic frogs, shrimp (especially ornamental species), and alligators.
Educational opportunities and responsibilities include developing an understanding and basic proficiency in:
- Obtaining a thorough case history
- Testing and interpreting water chemistry
- Fish necropsy and microbiology techniques
- Non-lethal fish examination techniques
- Histological sampling
- Medical case interpretation
- Developing medical and management recommendations
- Client interaction both in the diagnostic lab and on farm and facility site visits
- Common aquaculture fish health management methods and chemotherapeutics
- Basic ornamental aquaculture production and husbandry techniques, including system design and management
- Common fish reproduction strategies and techniques, including induced spawning methods
- Common aquarium fish families and species, as well as their general husbandry and production methodology
Field work with staff may include site visits to one or more local facilities including ornamental fish farms, state fish hatcheries, and/or public aquaria.
Oral examinations/reviews are conducted on a routine basis to assess the progress of externs. Students are provided with an extensive digital resource of publications and are expected to review this information throughout the duration of the externship. Externs will work Monday through Friday and are on-call during weekends and holidays to assist with disease diagnostics, research, and outreach as necessary.
24 hour referral specialty and emergency and critical care center. Externs spend most of the experiece working alongside seasoned ER docs and see a wide variety of cases. There is a heavy ER and specialty case load.
They will also have exposure to IM, surgery, imaging and oncology
Students will be able to gain insight into the daily functions of a shelter veterinarian, including diagnosis and treatment of illness, preventative care, and herd health discussions and decisions. Additionally, students spend a significant amount of time working in the high volume spay and neuter clinic.
Veterinary externs will work closely with the Vancouver Aquarium’s veterinary staff, which includes a board-certified veterinarian, veterinary fellow, two registered veterinary technicians, and one veterinary assistant, in the medical management of a large captive display collection that includes marine mammals, terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and a large variety of native and tropical fish. The veterinary extern will also assist the veterinary medical staff in providing medical management for approximately 150 live-stranded marine mammals (mostly harbour seals) which are cared for by the Vancouver Aquarium.
We are a mixed animal practice, primarily beef, in rural South Dakota. We have four clinics and serve 10 counties in central South Dakota. We perform a high number of calving calls in the spring time providing a rounded and deep experience for veterinary students.
The externship will be mixed between large and small animal. We allow students to ride along with a doctor 2-3 days per week if they are interested in large animal with the rest of the time spent in small animal. We have an orthopedic surgeon, cardiologist, ophthalmologist, and behaviorist that come in weekly. There are 8 large animal doctors and 28 small animal doctors. We are open 24 hours so if emergency medicine is something the student is interested in, they can complete some emergency training at our facility.
We are a busy small animal practice in northeast Georgia. We offer 24-7 emergency services as well. We see wellness and sick appointments as well as routine and non-routine surgeries.
This half-block clinical rotation is designed to expose interested students to the field of Laboratory Animal Medicine. The rotation can be divided into 2 general sections: 1) clinical service involving the diagnosis and treatment of colony animals; 2) didactic training in the biology and medicine of traditional laboratory animal species. In addition to rodents we maintain dogs, cats, swine, cattle, horses, reptiles, fish and birds.
Goal/Rationale of the Course
Enrolled students typically fall into two categories. 1. Students who are considering a possible career in laboratory animal medicine. 2. Students who have in interest in pocket pets, etc. who want to gain more clinical exposure with these species. With these two student needs in mind the clinical rotation should in the end allow a student to make a final determination on a career choice of laboratory animal medicine (yea or nay), as well as exposing students to clinical cases with pocket pets and specific training via wet labs with various clinical and surgical procedures on specific species.
During this two week rotation, the student will develop a basic understanding of the following Procedures as they occur in slaughter and processing federal establishments
1. Ante Mortem Inspection
2. Humane Handling
3. Post-Mortem Inspection
4. Inspection methodology
5. Sanitation and sampling (pthogen and chemistry testing as well as pathology submission)
6. Plant maangemnt communication
7. Wellness, health and safety in the plant
8. Recalls
9. Professionalism