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Externship in shelter medicine and surgery and low cost clinic care
Description of experience:
Our shelter has two locations and a separate wildlife center, so having a car or access to one is easiest, though public transportation is available. Each shelter location has admissions, adoptions, medical/surgery, and a low-cost, full service, public clinic. We normally perform surgery 6 days a week and have clinic hours 5-6 days a week. Vets are onsite to provide kennel animal care 7 days per week. We perform between 150-200 surgeries per week, primarily spay and neuter, and serve a population of around 8000 domestic animals and 4-6000 wildlife cases through our program each year.
Our clinic is not means based, so we have clients that can and will do anything and everything (including going to specialists etc.) and ranges to those who have little to no means. We work with everyone to provide the highest standard of care to all of these animals. We also have a robust pet-retention program, as part as our managed intake/intake diversion initiative and see many of these animals through clinic and surgery.
We have a robust Pet Retention program to assist in the cost of procedures for qualifying cases. We also have a Humane Investigative department, and work closely with the local community in these regards.
We will be traveling as a team with the North Carolina Veterinary students to the Navajo Reservation. There we serve as their only veterinarian all year. We will be spaying and neutering and vaccinating small animals, as well as vaccinating, preg checking, and deworming sheep/goats/cattle, and floating and vaccinating and deworming horses.
The pathology rotation strives to integrate gross pathology with other diagnostic modalities. Students will work in groups of three to six for the two week rotation performing necropsies on mammals, birds, exotic species and laboratory animals under the guidance of pathology faculty and residents. Students will prepare written reports of the necropsies performed and discuss the findings at daily morning rounds.
Students will also be instructed by faculty of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center with expertise in ancillary diagnostic techniques. Students will be expected to learn to use diagnostic testing regimens as integral parts of comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic plans. Instruction will consist primarily of the discussion of clinical cases with emphasis on laboratory diagnostics. Students will be expected to lead and participate in these discussions and will be evaluated on their ability to do so.
General zoo animals, avian, reptile, marine mammals, native wildlife. The Bronx Zoo and allied institutions have a large and extremely diverse collection of animals. The student’s experience will depend upon the cases attended to during the time of the externship, and procedures undertaken in that period. Nevertheless, animals representing every class are attended to on a daily basis. The student may be involved in as many as 10-15 cases on busy days. Case rounds are held daily for hospitalized cases and animals to be attended to that day. General pathology rounds are also included in these daily case rounds. In addition, morbidity and mortality rounds are held once weekly, and histopathology rounds are held on selected cases.
The student will be shadowing veterinarians at a mixed animal private practice in rural West Virginia. Hands on experience will be determained by the competency of the student.
Students will have an opportunity to attend behavior consultations with a board-certified veterinary behaviorist. Behavior modification sessions may be observed and in some cases, students may participate. Students may also assist with client follow-ups during their second week on the rotation. Approximately 10 - 12 two hour cases are seen each week along with behavior modification sessions.
Herkimer Veterinary Associates is a mixed animal practice. We are proud to do large animal work with our dairy community focused on production animals. We also do work with many horse clients treating both stable and backyard horses. We are a full service general practice working with companion animals. We are also proud to be the veterinary team providing oversight, and professional services to two local animal shelters.
we have many specialties, not just one. Spend time with doctors and tecnicians in every service
Students will have the opportunity to work along veterinarians in a cattle practice in Southern Idaho. Daily herd checks on large scale western dairies of upto 10,000 cows will allow students to palpate over 300 cows per day. Exposure to individualized sick cows, obstetrical work, and emergency work will also be performed. Students will also have the opporturnity to assist in embryo production via ova pick up and implantation.
Our elective experience will be hands on small animal hospital physical exams, case workups, exaluating bloodwork, dental work (extrractions), and More surgery is possible at the local Shelter (spays and neuters).