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We are a 24/7 emergency and critical care hospital practicing top quality medicine and client service. Our externs are treated in the same manner as 4th year students in school. They are given primary case responsibility for a new patient and expected to work it up properly. This is done one on one with the help of a mentor doctor on shift every shift. We encourage learning and critical thinking through experience. The extern will have exposure to all types of cases, including but not limited to intense medicine cases, trauma cases, triages, multiple types of surgeries as well as the simple outpatient cases.
Sheep and Goat Elective. This is a two week elective for 4th year Veterinary Students that is held in February annually. This course is intensive and largely hands on work with sheep and goats. This course includes lectures and field trips to various goat and sheep farms. Students work with a large number of client animals for ultrasounds, disbuddings, dehornings and castrations. There are in house wetlabs at the University at Corvallis as well as in the field procedures and labs. Lectures are from professors and guest lecturers.
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.
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 a free room, board and parking, and depending on your school, you may also receive credits for this externship.
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It is our aim to provide a well-rounded, practical experience for our externs in a pleasant and supportive working environment, as well as informative didactic lectures provided by our doctors and outside doctors of specialties not available in our hospital. Extern duties include evaluation, SOAP and formulation of treatment plans for department of animal services patients. After performing a complete history and physical exam on select emergency patients, externs should be able to generate a list of problems and most likely differentials. Externs will assist the doctors with procedures and surgery.
Expose 3rd and 4th year students to programs associated with a large humane society, including veterinary practice (surgery, medicine, and population health), cruelty investigation, animal behavior and modification, and shelter/adoption programs. Students must be attending schools that the Michigan Humane Society has established a specific arrangement/relationship with. Third year students are accepted as long as their clinical rotations have started.
We offer a variety of exposure to different aspects of small animal veterinary medicine that can be tailored to extern's interest. They may spend time in a progressive general practice, high volume emergency service, specialty veterinary medicine or any combination of their choosing.
Student will work in the GDD Operations Center (GDDOC), Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. The GDDOC is an epidemic intelligence unit which uses novel, event‐based surveillance techniques to provide CDC with a single source of reliable, comprehensive, and high quality information on international disease outbreaks and other health threats to better prepare CDC to respond to public health emergencies, within a One Health context. The student will work in CDC's Emergency Operations Center and learn to conduct event-based surveillance from doctoral-level epidemiologic analysts, have a project to deliver to the GDDOC and OSU CVM, and have opportunities to observe other areas of federal public health by attending seminars and networking with other veterinarians and veterinary students at CDC.
Veterinary Emergency and Referral Group (VERG) is a progressive, state-of-the-art emergency and referral hospital in the trendy Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. Along with our VERG South location in the Marine Park section, we accept referrals from over 400 local practices throughout the tri-state area, which provides us with diverse and interesting cases. Our caseload has grown to the point we are now located at a new, 12,500 square foot facility less than a mile from our current location.
Humane Alliance: A Program of the ASPCA offers a two-week Extern Training Program (40 hours/week) designed to deliver spay/neuter surgical instruction, and offer students a behind-the-scenes, hands-on look into the world of spay/neuter and shelter medicine. The program excels in its surgical instruction and practice, with seven out of the program’s ten days involving some amount of surgery. Because of the fluctuating nature of our business, the exact curriculum moves according to patient/case availability. However, depending on each student’s ability, most students have historically performed between 15 and 30 surgeries in the two-week period.
Our Extern Training Program experience includes (but is not limited to):
SURGERY - including:
- Anatomy review
- Introduction & usage of high-volume surgical techniques (ligatures, ovarian pedicle ties, incision placement theories)
- Review of individual student techniques, including efficiency of motion & body mechanics
- Instrument review
- Surgical preparation procedures
- Identification & management of complications
EXAMINATIONS, ANESTHESIA, & PHARMACEUTICALS
- Pre-surgical physical examination
- Patient selection, including discussion of expected outcomes & higher risks
- Patient anesthetic monitoring & recovery
- Recheck examinations
- Drug records/logs
- Discussion of in-house anesthetic protocols, including pain management
- Anesthesia machine maintenance
CLASSROOM LECTURES
- Community cats
- Surgical anomalies
- Surgical complications
THE LOCAL SHELTER EXPERIENCE
- Working visits at one or two local area shelters
The Laboratory Animal Medicine externship provides clinical experience with a broad variety of species ranging from rodents to nonhuman primates. LAM externs accompany program residents on their rounds, including at our macaque breeding colonies, and have the opportunity to do routine clinical procedures. They assist in anesthesia and surgery; aid in the training of researchers and MDs using animal models and participate in ACLAM boards review activities.
The Anatomic Pathology externships allows for participation in necropsies of animals from our facilities, private veterinary practitioners, the Maryland Zoo and the National Aquarium. Pathology externs will review slides with boarded pathologists and participate in gross and histopathology rounds.
Both externships provide extensive hands-on experience.
Qualifications
Veterinary students in their 3rd and 4th year of their veterinary training are welcome to immerse themselves in our training program for two (2) to eight (8) weeks. This is an unpaid externship and availability of positions is limited.
Application
To express interest in an externship, send a letter of intent, your CV, official transcript, and two professional recommendation letters to support your application to: Emma Ey, Academic Program Coordinator, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, 733 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205-2196; (443) 287-2953 or email eey@jhmi.edu.
Summer internships for veterinary students and advanced training for graduate veterinarians are also available. For information on these opportunities and on our department, please visit our website at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mcp.
Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Nominations and applications from women and individuals from a broad spectrum of backgrounds are encouraged.