Countryside opportunities will focus on preventative veterinary care, urgent care appointments, surgical services, and diagnostic imaging. Client communication and team communication skills will be emphasized. Countryside also offers ntegrative therapies including VSMT, acupuncture, and rehabilitation/conditioning with our under water treadmill. We share a building with Health Veterinary Imaging, an advanced imaging center with a high tech ultrasound and CT machine. One whole side of our practice is dedicated to feline only including a separate entrance, exams and treatment area.
Our production animal client breakdown is 90% dairy, 5% beef and 5% small ruminant. Students shadowing large animal DVM's can expect to partake in routine reproductive examinations and herd checks, individual sick animal examinations, calf walk-throughs, fresh-pen walk-throughs, and herd level consultations.
Companion Animal Equipment: Digital radiography, digital dental radiography, ultrasound, photobiomodulation (cold laser), ultrasonography, water treadmill, surgical laser
Production Animal Equipment: none. Advise students wanting to practice ultrasound to request loaner from medical imaging companies.
Hours vary from 6:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday with optional Saturday morning. Hands-on opportunities vary based on student education level and DVM comfortability.
We are a Mission Veterinary Partner clinic. Recommend reaching out to corporate for more information on travel stipend opportunity.