Kama'aina Pet Hospital offers not only general medicine to pet families, but is also Oahu's urgent care center for pets. Our cases not only focus on general medicine: spays, neuters, vaccines, dentals and mass removals, but also on urgent care cases that may involve advanced critical care, blood transfusions, gastric forign body surgeries, splenectomies, and cystotomies.
Students will gain extensive hands on experience with small animal clinical cases. They will learn how to interpret patient history and physical exam findings into a workable differential list that will direct diagnostics and treatment plans. Students will have experience with soft tissue surgeries, interpretting radiographs, and working through abnormalities on bloodwork to determine the patient diagnosis.
Following the externship, students should have gaines a workable knowledgebase on clincal cases and approaches to medicine.
Our hospital has 3 full time veterinarians on staff, 1 registered veterinary technician, 2 additional technicials with over 5 years experience in the field, and an additional 5 support staff personal. We are equipped with digital radiology, access to radiology specialists for radiograph interprestations, ultrasound, abaxis chemistry and cbc analyzers, PT/PTT analyzers, and access to internal medicine consultations on all outside laboratory results.
Students are expected to attend 8 hour days for a minimum of 4 days a week. Students are encouraged to stay longer on days when cases run past closing as many of those cases provide emergency medcine skill sets. Students will shadow veterinarians and assist with procedures or diagnostic plans for patients.