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Ohio Alleycat Resource Center is a feline only facility that has a high volume low cost spay/neuter clinic, a low cost wellness clinic, barn cat program and an Adoption Center.
Students are schedule for a 2 week rotation in which they will work in the following departments:
1. Emergency/Triage - evaluating patients brought in through our 24hr Animal Ambulance Service, Animal Cruelty Cases brought in through our Investigations department, Foster Appointments, and In-hospital patients. This department has in-house blood work and urinalysis equipment, ultrasound, digital radiography, and endoscopy.
2. Surgery - 90% spays/neuters, but may also include amputations, mass removals, enucleations, C-sections, and a host of other surgical procedures.
3. Pet Wellness Clinic - Preventive and minor urgent care for owned pets. Students will gain confidence and practice in client education and communication.
4. Wildlife Center - intake, evaluation, and handling of native Texas wildlife with the ultimate goal of release back to the community.
5. Animal Cruelty and Investigations - Ride-a-long with one of our Animal Cruelty Investigators to gain an understanding of how cruelty cases are processed and prosecuted. May include the opportunity to observe resolution of the cases in court.
6. Equine and Farm Animals - evaluating and treating equine and farm animals in our care.
Wyoming Livestock Board (WLSB) is the official state animal health agency for Wyoming. Externs will assist with livestock herd testing for a range of regulatory diseases, working with both USDA and state veterinarians. Opportunities will also include participating in educational presentations for a variety of livestock species and audiences. Externs may participate in new/ongoing disease investigations, prepare for sample collection and submission, and help with forms required for various laboratory and disease monitoring programs.
Opportunity to perform general practice responsibilities along with routine surgery and dentistry procedures.
This is a state agency wildlife externship. Case load is variable and we are often dealing with population health issues and outbreak investigations. There is a lot of necropsy and forensic science that will occur during this externship. Data entry, wildlife capture and sampling will also likely occur during this rotation.
The extern will participate in our necropsy and surgical biopsy service as well as pathology resident rounds.
Full Dairy veterinary practice that also consults at the domestic and international level. Externs will be exposed to general dairy medicine, as well as advanced reproductive techniques, and get the opportunity to diagnose her health problems.
In this rotation student will shadow doctors, practice technical skills, and have experiences on how and what it takes to be a doctor.
Worthington Woods Animal Care Center is a 4 doctor small animal hospital that sees primarily dogs and cats and the occasional pocket pet or rabbit.
We see wellness and illness appointments as well as surgeries( spays, neuters, stomach tacks, tumor removals, GI fb's, bladder stones, amputations, enucleations, COHATs with extractions and dental radiology). We will hospitalize stable patients overnight but if critical will refer. We will see emergencies during our hours of operation (8am-6pm).
We work closely with local specialists that come to our hospital to perform surgeries and do ultrasounds. We also refer to MedVet and OSU for the more complicated cases.
We have an in house lab to run bloodwork and a microscope for reading skin / fna cytology and reading urinary sediment. We have digital radiology as well as dental radiology and a high speed drill for extractions. We have a companion animal cold laser. All surgeries are monitored by a veterinary nurse as well as a monitoring system. We have a doppler for BP's and an Tonovet for ocular pressures.
The student will be involved with seeing a full daily schedule of appointments throughout the week as well as one day devoted to surgery/dental procedures.
The student will be able to interact with and observe other doctors in the practice if she would like to learn other perspectives and treatment ideas or observe their surgeries.
The student and I will work as a team to communicate with owners, examine patients in exam rooms ( or see drop off appointments), create differential diagnosis lists, order testing, create treatment plans ( and options for owners) , provide treatment to patients, and follow up on the patients.
Our privately owned multi-doctor small animal General Practice primarily treats canine and feline patients. The veterinary student will be working alongside a veterinarian and learning how to communicate with the clients, diagnose cases, provide the proper treatment plan options, as well as, assisting in x-rays and interpreting x-rays, using a therapeutic laser, using an ultrasound, taking dental x-rays and interpreting those. The student will also be discussing cases with the doctors. The student will not be allowed to perform surgeries; however, the student will be allowed to scrub in and assist if the student's skills allow.
Veterinary externs will also be involved in labwork and the interpretation of lab results and how these results may determine the treatment plan for the patient, vaccines, blood draws, nutrition, etc.