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Mixed Animal Practice
50% large animal, 50% small animal
Large animal is 80% Dairy, 5% Beef, 5% Equine 5% Sheep/Goat, 5% Swine
Feline only practice for the past 26 years, overall 36 yrs experience. We believe that we excel in the handling of cats and creating as comfortable an experience as possible. Student would shadow Doctor and learn my style of exam, interacting with clients and patients. Decide on a course of treatment/laboratory work on his/her own then discuss with doctor. Learn and execute the handling of different personalities of cats. Learn about surgery in a private practice setting, and to get some hands on experience with direct supervision of doctor. Develop an understanding about how a practice operates, providing quality care but still generating an income. Student would observe the interaction of Dr and employees, and between employees for the smooth operation of the practice and delivering a quality service to clients, giving the clients a sense of comfort and satisfaction.
Students will shadow veterinary behavioral consultations involving canine, feline, equine and avian patients. Hands-on experience may be provided depending on the qualifications of the student under the direct guidance of the Veterinarian and Registered Veterinary Technician (on a case-by-case basis). Students will be observing and interacting with 2 Veterinary Technician Specialists in Behavior and RVT's who are Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partners in behavior therapy appointments.
Shadowing appointments, surgeries with doctors and interpreting xrays. Some animal handling.
Avian medicine and surgery.
We are a mixed animal practice that enjoys having students come and ride around with us. We start early in the morning with LA calls, typically herd checks and then go into the open call venue. The afternoons are reserved for team meetings, consulting, rounds here at the clinic, or SA if anyone is interested. We have been part of the ambulatory service at UW for over 20 years, and our clients are familiar with having students along. This is a great learning environment because the clients allow the students to actually do something!
Reproduction is still our main focus on the dairies, but we are seeing more consulting, nutrition, public health, and personel management. We have bull studs as clients, high end registered cattle, goat dairies, and everything between.
During the externship students will participate in all aspects of the veterinary department's activities, including routine, emergency, and preventive health care of the animal colleciton, maintaining health records, assisting the veterinary technicians with routine tests, and assisting in the care of hospitalized patients.
Students will begin by observing clinic protocol, move to participating in patient restraint and care. Cases will be discussed from examination through diagnostics, reassessments, treatments, and follow up. Students will also assist in surgeries.
Student will be matched with a board certified veterinarian in their areas of interest and travel with them througout the day. Our hospital is set up so that it is very easy to follow the most interesting cases.
The UIC Veterinary Externship Program is designed to provide interested veterinary students with an opportunity to gain an in-depth experience in laboratory animal medicine in a large centralized animal care program. The program itself emphasizes gaining hands-on experience in laboratory animal medicine, surgery and anesthesiology as well as becoming familiar with the standard husbandry procedures employed in an AAALAC accredited animal care program. The students are taught by the professional staff, the technical support staff, and the animal care staff. Through their exposure to the many and varied research projects conducted in the Biologic Resources Laboratory, they will gain first-hand experience supporting research programs, but will not be formally involved in any on-going research programs.
The program is designed to emphasize the support and service aspect of laboratory animal medicine with an emphasis on the multi-disciplinary team approach that has become such an integral part of biomedical research today. The program consists of rotations through the three clinical divisions (large animal, small animal, and primates), as well as the experimental surgery and radiology department. Initially the student is assigned to the research surgery service to develop skills in administering and monitoring anesthesia and to assist in all surgery performed by the veterinary staff and selected principal investigators. Following a thorough introduction to aseptic techniques, the student begins to suture incisions and works up to performing, under supervision, a variety of soft tissue and colony related surgical procedures.
In addition to this assignment, the student will make clinical rounds with the veterinary staff, in their area of assigned responsibility, with emphasis being placed on getting exposure to the cases and activities in the primate colony. In addition to this initial exposure the student will work with the breeding technician in the primate colony assessing the female reproductive cycles. The student will also be assigned responsibility for following the procedural schedule in the primate quarantine area and will review all pertinent clinical, laboratory and radiology data with the veterinary staff.