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- Routine daytime practice
- Emergency & critical care
- Advanced surgery: orthopedic, laparoscopic
Students work with board certified specialists as well as interns and residents. Duties vary by department, however in general students can expect to participate in and observe clinics, procedures, and rounds. Students are expected to accompany a doctor at all times, observe and assist in all examinations, diagnostic procedures, treatments, surgery, etc. It is our goal for students to have as much hands on learning as possible. Students are also invited to attend all continuing education sessions held during their externship.
The Grand Island Animal Hospital is part of the Buffalo Veterinary Group, 6 private practices with two locations being open 24/7 for emergency and general care. The Grand Island Animal Hospital is one of the general and urgent care facilities. We expect senior students to participate in office calls, surgery, rounds, and patient care. Each day, the senior student will be assigned to a doctor, and the student will be able to observe and participate.
Primarily small animal, with a few exotics, pocket pets, wild birds (we work with our local bird sanctuary)
Broad array of small and large animal medical and surgical experience including but not limited to: wellness visits for pets, dermatology, elective surgeries, orthopedic surgery at our Rockville location, critical medicine case management, dealing with common emergencies such as hit by cars and rat poison consumption, cattle herd visits, livestock obstetrics, equine visits (commonly colics and lacerations), chiropractic and acupuncture of both large and small animals, canine rehab, etc.
The Arizona BluePearl Veterinary Partners is a group of five 24-hour small animal emergency hospitals in Phoenix and the surrounding area. We are a fast-paced hospital with a large caseload and a variety of both medical and surgical cases. Despite the pressure of emergency medicine, we offer a friendly atmosphere and enjoy mentoring and assisting one another with challenging cases.
Our emergency doctors perform a variety of surgeries and manage complex medicine and critical cases. Doctors have twice daily cageside rounds, which provide the opportunity for externs to learn and ask questions about case management. Some of our most common surgical emergencies include GDV’s, dystocias, pyometras, foreign bodies (gastrotomy and enterotomy), hemoabomen, and bite wound explore/repair. Other common emergencies include blocked cats, diabetic ketoacidosis, pancreatitis, anemia, trauma, toxicities, heat stroke, and rattlesnake envenomation
Externs will spend time shadowing our general practitioners and ER Drs.
The Pine City Animal Hospital is a busy small animal hospital/clinic in Pine County, MN. The candidate would directly shadow the veterinarian and would be encouraged to submit recommendations for treatment plans and other care. Questions and discussion would be encouraged. The candidate would have opportunities to scrub in and assist in surgery. Laboratory and clinical skills would be honed.
We are a private, non-profit, no-kill Humane Society operating a full service hospital for the low income pet owners in our community. We are able to expose students to all aspects of Shelter Medicine including but not limited to disease prevention, sterilization, behavior modification, transfer and transport procedures, development, foster care and volunteer services. Our students come in around 8 am Monday thru Friday and we are usually finished up around 5 pm. We require no evening or weekend shifts but they are welcome to come additional hours if they choose. We also have great relationships with all the specialty practices in our area so if our shelter pets have a consult scheduled they are welcome to accompany the team. These visits include cardiology, dermatology, surgery, ophthamology, neurology and oncology.
Minimum required student availability: 4 consecutive weeks, 6 weeks recommend.
Prerequisites: Candidate in good faith has taken all available local clinical rotations in pathology. Also recommended that the candidate has had prior research experience and or taken advantage of research and/or pathology electives or experiences elsewhere.
Description of Experience:
Based in the Laboratory of Investigative Pathology (Davis Lab) and supported by the department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and the Biosecurity Research Institute, this program is designed to:
- Engage students and residents at their level of learning
- Transfer knowledge and skills to them of relevance to infectious disease research and diagnosis
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Enable them to explore career options in infectious disease research and diagnostics, in particular infectious diseases investigative veterinary pathology.
(Investigative or experimental veterinary pathology is defined as a branch of veterinary medicine dealing with the essential nature of disease, especially changes in animal tissues and organs that are a cause of or are caused by disease.)
The VIPPID DVM clinical rotation (externship) has a core set of universal topics that are covered to varying degrees during each individualized experience:
- What is investigative veterinary pathology?
- Career opportunities in infectious disease investigative veterinary pathology
- Experimental design of animal studies for good pathology outcomes
- Tissue processing for histology
- Immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence - finding specific proteins and nuclei acids in your tissues and cells
- High containment pathology techniques
- Gross lesion interpretation
- Histopathological lesion interpretation
- Different microscopy techniques
- Image processing
- Individual research project