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Opportunity to participate in medical and surgical cases including preventative medicine visits, simple and complicated medical problems and workups, preforming basic surgical procedures such as OHE and neuters, participating with veterinarians on more advanced surgeries, performiing dental propylactic cleaning and radiographs and participating in extractions
Throughout the duration of the candidates experience at Healthy Pets, we plan on providing them exposure to the fast paced environment of the small animal practice field. We plan on establishing goals to include experience in exam rooms with dogs, cats, pocket pets, reptiles and birds, as well as a multitude of surgical procedures. The candidate will be expected to participate in communicating effectively with our clients, devising a medication protocol for our patients, scrubbing in for surgical procedures, and discussing the financial aspects, business overhead and the transaction reports of our hospital.
Students performing elective rotations with Canine Companions for Independence will have the opportunity to assist in a broad numbers of tasks, including: phycial exams, development of treatment plans, administering medical care, imaging studies, dentistry and surgery. In addition, they will have the opportunity to learn about reproduction, including timing of estrous cycles, facilitating dog breedings, semen evaluation and storage, pregnancy detection and assistance with whelping and neonatal puppy care.
The student would spend part of the time riding with a large animal veterinarian and part of the time in the small animal hospital. Students would be exposed to dairy production medicine on small (<50 cow) Amish diaries and organic diaries to large (>1500 cow) family run dairies. Clients also include pleasure horses, families, goats and few swine. The small animal hospital caters to dogs and cats. Students would be exposed to dental radiology, digital radiology, and general small animal practice as well as surgery. Surgeries range from spats and Reuters to amputation, enucleation, and abdominal exploration.
BVSC is a busy referral private practice and offers clinical exposure to the diagnosis and treatment of surgical and medical diseases in the small animal patient. We have a strong focus in oncology with a specialist surgical oncologist and specialist radiation oncologist. During this rotation, the student will practice history taking, physical and physical examinations, and establish competence in the care, diagnosis and treatment of small animal diseases. Students will have hands-on experience while assisting in surgery and during some medical procedures. Specialities: Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Internal Medicine, Radiation Therapy, Ophtalmology, Dentistry.
General Practice DVM seeing appointments 3 days, with a Surgery DVM 5 days, with an Urgent Care DVM seeing appointments 2 days.
Student will participate in gross necropsy and histopathology of laboratory animals submitted to the Pathology Service, Division of Veterinary Resources under the direct supervision of board certified staff veterinary pathologists.
Student will participate in weekly histopathology slide conferences.
The VCA WLA Rotating Externship is set up so that you will rotate through multiple different services, attend patient rounds, attend didactic rounds, and interact with current house officers and senior clinicians. The services available for direct rotations include: Emergency, Critical Care, Neurology, Oncology, ZooMed, Dentistry, Surgery, Internal Medicine, and direct time with our on-site social worker (LCSW), current interns, and residents.
If you are looking to do a veterinary externship, please follow the link below and fill out the application below.
https://vcastudentapplication.marsvh.com/student/dvm-externship-application
If you have any other questions in the meantime please feel free to reach out!!
Day to day small animal practice procedures from history taking , SOAP creation, scheduleing visits, restraining patients, blood drawing and sample prep. Surgery prep and observing surgical procedures, Recovery of post surgical patients. Suture material / suture patterns if time allows.
We are a full-service small animal practice. Our goal is to offer and intense and informative clinical to each extern we come in contact with. Arrowhead Ranch Animal Hospital offers the extern the opportunity to work with 3 Onsite Practice Owners during the externship. The extern would be exposed to the philosophy of practicing medicine, client service expectations and methodology. The day to day schedule will mirror what they will see in a small animal practice. Surgeries and dentals in the morning, and visiting rooms in the afternoon. We would like to immerse the extern in every phase of the business. What charts look like; How to engage with a client; Shadowing surgical procedures; Building relationships and rapport with staff.