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Ethos is a group of specialty referral and emergency care practices, with locations in New England, Denver, San Diego and Chicago. We welcome student externs. Externs will actively participate in daily hospital rounds and case discussions. We want to hear your thoughts and questions about cases, and appreciate the perspective you will bring. You will also have opportunities to observe outpatient receiving, emergency case management, hospital treatments, surgery, diagnostic procedures and client communications. Because the program is intended to be observational rather than hands-on, you will not be doing surgery on your own, receiving patients or having primary responsibility for treatments.
Below is a description of specialties and location:
- Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital
- Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency, critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology (medical and surgical), ophthalmology, surgery, physical rehabilitation and sports medicine.
- Please see the link for criteria for applying and links to applications. http://wheatridgeanimal.com/vets/ed_opps.html
- Veterinary Specialty Hospital (2 locations, to be described together, Sorrento Valley and North County)
- Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency and critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology (medical and radiation), ophthalmology, surgery. All services are available in both locations except radiation oncology, which is in Sorrento Valley. Some services, such as anesthesia, diagnostic imaging and ophthalmology, may not be available for externships.
- Externs are taken on a first come, first served basis. Please email Ann Ong at aong@ethosvet.com. Please contact jorvalho@ucdavis.edu to schedule a visit with cardiology.
- Premier (4 locations in Chicago: Kane County, Grayslake, Belmont and Crestwood)
- Services offered include cardiology, emergency, internal medicine, neurology, oncology and surgery, depending on the location.
- Please email Dr Amanda Full at afull@ethosvet.com to schedule a visit.
- IVG Hospitals (4 locations in New England: MassVet, Bulger, Port City and MetroWest)
- Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency, critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, and physical rehabilitation.
- Externs are taken on a first come, first served basis.Please email Jana Gabarro at jgabarro@ethosvet.com.
Assist veterinarians with in diagnostics, treatments and case discussions. Please see AAEP website: https://aaep.org/about-aaep
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo offers 4 week externships to 3rd and 4th year veterinary students who have an interest in exotic animal medicine. The externship will cover all aspect of the medical care of the zoo's 2,500 individual animals. Students will be able to particiapte in many procedures and will be responsible for helping with record keeping, treatments, and laboratory procedures. Interested individuals should submit their current CV to the hospital administrator, Sharon Yahnert, @ sag@clevelandmetroparks.com to determine what is currently available.
The student will be exposed to and involved in all aspects of an integrative, small animal veterinary practice. The student will directly observe the application of veterinary acupuncture, herbal medicine, supplements, natural nutrition, massage therapy and chiropractic to patients along with the administration of conventional care as each modality is warranted by the individual case. A second DVM at the practice has taken the Chi Institute acupuncture course and will serve as a secondary instructor. The student will learn the basic concepts involved in these holistic modalities and see how Western and CAVM therapies can work together.
We are an exclusive large animal practice in southwest Missouri. We provide a multitude of large animal services, in-house film x-rays, some lab work, blood work to Antech or a university, surgeries, ultrasounds, hospitalization care, dairy and beef heard health, A.I., excellent indoor cattle working facility with hydraulic processing chute, hydraulic foot table, on the farm and in the clinic services, emergency services, etc. Experienced support staff.
Students will spend time rotating between the hospital and ambulatory services, with one of 8 senior doctors, along side our 3-4 interns. Senior doctors include 3 boarded surgeons, 1 boarded internist, 4 ambulatory practitioners (one of whom specializes in dentistry, two who are heavily trained in reproduction, two certified in acupuncture, and one certified in chiropractic). Hospital caseload consists largely of colics, elective soft tissue surgery, and elective orthopedic cases as well as several (3-6/day on average) outpatient lamenesses/ultrasounds. Ambulatory work includes wellness, dentistry, lameness and prepurchase examinations, and smaller numbers of medicine-based cases (respiratory, endocrine, neurologic).
We are a mixed animal practice operating out of 4 clinic locations. Our practice includes mixed animal, large animal exclusive, and small animal exclusive veterinarians. Externs who visit our practice can spend their time with any species or combination of species. We provide routine and emergency medicine and surgery services for large animals 24 hours a day via our ambulatory service. Our small animal clinics provide daytime routine and emergency services including ultrasound, digital radiography, in-house bloodwork, and multiple surgery suites.
Participation in outpatient and inpatient medical and surgical cases, triage and history taking and assessment of cases. We are a full service AAHA accredited hospital and we cover our own after hour emergencies.
BluePearl is the Pacific Northwest’s premier veterinary specialty, 24-hour emergency and critical care center. With its emergency doctors, board-certified specialists, animal blood bank and state-of-the-art diagnostic and surgical suites, BluePearl provides access to innovative resources and comprehensive care when it is needed most.
What are the goals for my time at BluePearl?
We aim to provide education in the following areas in the ER/ICU rotation:
- Triage skills
- Physiology, recognition and treatment of shock, basic acid/base understanding
- Good understanding of fluid therapy – especially use of synthetic and natural colloids
- Basic approach to common emergencies
- Urethral obstruction
- Gastric dilation/volvulus
- Cardiac emergencies
- Upper Respiratory Emergencies (Laryngeal paralysis, collapsing trachea, brachycephalic syndrome)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Some real world experience!
Please let us know if there are specific things you would like to learn or be exposed to during your stay – we will do our best to help.
Our clinic regularly hosts veterinary students. We offer Internal Medicine, Dentistry and emergency opportunities. This is an excellent oppoprtunity for a hands-on experience in a fast paced multi-disciplinary clinic.