Our mid-sized small animal practice provides preventive, medical, surgical, and behavioral services for cats and dogs. Our practice strives to provide high quality, individualized care in a relationship centered practice while maintaining a positive team culture. Our practice is long standing in our community serving some families for over 3 decades. Externs will work alongside our doctors and technicians applying and growing their medical skills and knowledge as well as developing technical skills. When possible we will support development in areas of special interest to the student (anesthesia, cytology, dermatology, etc).
Our practice has a healthy ratio of doctors to support staff enabling doctors to focus on medical care. We are equipped to offer high quality medical care including tonometry, digital x-rays, and digital dental x-rays.
Students will be expected to be in the hospital during business hours Monday through Friday (approximately 7:30 AM - 6 PM - with a break for lunch). Students are welcome but not required to attend our Saturday hours (8Am-2 PM).
Student responsibilities will be adjusted based on ability, but will include:
- Shadowing doctors in appointments
- Surgery: Assisting doctors in surgery (4th year year students possibly performing supervised surgery)
- Anesthesia: Developing anesthesia plans, induction, monitoring anesthesia, etc
- Medicine:
- performing physical exams then presenting ddx and recommendations to attending DVM
- interpreting diagnostic results
- developing treatment plans
- interpreting cytology
- Imaging
- interpreting images
- attending weekly radiology rounds with a board certified radiologist
- Dentistry
- assisting with dental procedures
- interpreting dental rads
- Practicing technical skills including venipuncture, IVC placement, injection technique
- Assisting with exams and procedures when asked