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In accordance with the State Practice Act, students will be provided the opportunity to:
• Gain experience in general pet medicine in a bond-centered practice.
• Understand Banfield’s best practice standards, code of conduct and ethics.
• Understand the concepts of quality medicine and preventive care.
• Understand how both high quality and high case load can complement each other.
• Learn to perform a physical exam and to record a thorough medical history.
• Improve technical skills such as: drawing blood, placing catheters, giving injections, starting fluids, assisting with anesthesia and surgeries under the mentor doctor’s direct supervision.
• Collect and interpret laboratory specimens.
• Learn how to order the appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Learn to establish effective therapeutic plans.
• Learn how to properly restrain dogs, cats and exotic pets for different medical procedures.
• Learn how to efficiently and effectively use hospital equipment.
• Learn how to charge appropriately for services provided and why this is important.
• Learn and practice effective client and team communication skills.
• Learn to work effectively with hospital associates and others critical to your success.
During an elective experience students will be closely invovled in all of the day to day activities associated with being veterinarian in a mixed animal practice. Students can expect hands on experience with the diagnosis, treatment and surgical procedures in both large and small animals. Students can choose to focus on either small animal or large animal medicine or if interested in mixed animal we can adjust your schedule so that you can see interesting cases/procedures.
- Routine daytime practice
- Emergency & critical care
- Advanced surgery: orthopedic, laparoscopic
Students work with board certified specialists as well as interns and residents. Duties vary by department, however in general students can expect to participate in and observe clinics, procedures, and rounds. Students are expected to accompany a doctor at all times, observe and assist in all examinations, diagnostic procedures, treatments, surgery, etc. It is our goal for students to have as much hands on learning as possible. Students are also invited to attend all continuing education sessions held during their externship.
The Grand Island Animal Hospital is part of the Buffalo Veterinary Group, 6 private practices with two locations being open 24/7 for emergency and general care. The Grand Island Animal Hospital is one of the general and urgent care facilities. We expect senior students to participate in office calls, surgery, rounds, and patient care. Each day, the senior student will be assigned to a doctor, and the student will be able to observe and participate.
Primarily small animal, with a few exotics, pocket pets, wild birds (we work with our local bird sanctuary)
Broad array of small and large animal medical and surgical experience including but not limited to: wellness visits for pets, dermatology, elective surgeries, orthopedic surgery at our Rockville location, critical medicine case management, dealing with common emergencies such as hit by cars and rat poison consumption, cattle herd visits, livestock obstetrics, equine visits (commonly colics and lacerations), chiropractic and acupuncture of both large and small animals, canine rehab, etc.
The Arizona BluePearl Veterinary Partners is a group of five 24-hour small animal emergency hospitals in Phoenix and the surrounding area. We are a fast-paced hospital with a large caseload and a variety of both medical and surgical cases. Despite the pressure of emergency medicine, we offer a friendly atmosphere and enjoy mentoring and assisting one another with challenging cases.
Our emergency doctors perform a variety of surgeries and manage complex medicine and critical cases. Doctors have twice daily cageside rounds, which provide the opportunity for externs to learn and ask questions about case management. Some of our most common surgical emergencies include GDV’s, dystocias, pyometras, foreign bodies (gastrotomy and enterotomy), hemoabomen, and bite wound explore/repair. Other common emergencies include blocked cats, diabetic ketoacidosis, pancreatitis, anemia, trauma, toxicities, heat stroke, and rattlesnake envenomation
Externs will spend time shadowing our general practitioners and ER Drs.
The Pine City Animal Hospital is a busy small animal hospital/clinic in Pine County, MN. The candidate would directly shadow the veterinarian and would be encouraged to submit recommendations for treatment plans and other care. Questions and discussion would be encouraged. The candidate would have opportunities to scrub in and assist in surgery. Laboratory and clinical skills would be honed.