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Students will gain hands on experience evaluating the health and welfare of multiple endangered species of prosimian primates (lemurs and lories) in a captive environment.
The veterinary student will spend ~ 1/3 of the rotation working closely with the clinical veterinary staff managing and working up cases and providing treatments to sick animals; ~ 1/3 of the rotation with the Curator, a DVM boarded in the American College of Animal Welfare, exploring welfare issues related to managing wildlife and primates in captivity, their use in research, and welfare issues associated with conservation; and the reaming 1/3 of the rotation working with the Center's Behavioral Manager who has a Masters in Animal Welfare Ethics and Law. The focus of this particular externship is to familiarize the students with animal welfare principles applicable to captive wildlife in zoos and in research settings.
The student will learn how housing, diet, social structure, husbandry, and health care impact exotic animal well-being. Experience performing assessments during major life events and at the end of life is incorporated into the externship to familiarize the student with different approaches to assessing welfare. As part of the rotation the student will spend time at Duke University's Office of Animal Welfare Assurance learning about institutional mechanisms for ensuring the health and welfare of animals in research settings, regulations pertaining to the use of animals in research, and compliance monitoring.
The student is expected to complete assigned reading and do a short project while on site.
Latrobe Animal Clinic is a 2 veterinarian small animal hospital. Students will have an oppertunity to assist with examinations and appointments including history taking, diagnostics and procedures (based on skill of student). A typical day inclues multiple surgeries in the morning ranging from spay/neuters to dentals, growth removals, exploratiories, C-sections and orthopedic surgeries. The afternoons will be spent seeing appointments and the occasional emergency.
Student will be shadowing and participating in a variety of appointments, surgical cases etc, alongside our resident Chief of staff.
Our Undergraduate Intern Program was established in 2004. We are hoping to find students for our hospital (surgery/ medicine/ sports medicine), our equine reproduction center (ERC); and our ambulatory department (ambulatory students must commit to working from mid-January to mid-June). Although you may be exposed to all of the departments during your internship, you should expect to consistently work in only one of these areas. Spring internships will run from approximately mid-January through the mid-May. Summer internships run mid-May through mid-July.
The internship will concentrate on surgery, internal medicine, diagnostic imaging, theriogenology, emergency medical/surgical care, sports medicine, general medicine, and herd health. Students will receive training in basic handling and restraint, and will develop a set of general veterinary technician skills including, but not limited to: preparing patients for procedures, surgical scrub, x-ray plate orientation, foal restraint, drawing up medications, administrating medications, and monitoring patient’s vitals.
It is our intent that this opportunity will fulfill the practical experience requirements necessary for each student’s area of study, any personal goals that the students have for the internship and provide a realistic and relevant exposure to equine medicine.
Patient work ups, general well visits, surgery
This is a Dairy Animal Welfare elective, in which students will learn about evaluating dairy farms with the Dean Foods Dairy Well Evaluation and the National FARM program. We will cover all aspects of dairy animal welfare in all age classes.
Students will obtain real clinical experience during their 2 week externship. They will be shadowing the doctors in the exam rooms and performing physical exams. They will interpret diagnostic blood work and develop treatment plans with the doctors on duty. Students will be assisting in dental and surgical procedures under doctor superision. Students will refine their skills in jugular blood draws and placement of IV catheters.
100% dairy practice specializing in all aspects of large dairy herd health. Focus in reproductive management, milk production and mastitis control, surgery and obstetrical cases.
Exposure to all aspects of a small animal practice including but not limited to medicine, surgery, management, organization, software management, client communication, staffing.
We strive to provide a positive working enviroment hoping the individuals on externships will become better diagnosticians , more knowledgeable surgeons, and have better communication skills to outline their treatment plans. I hope by providing a positive experience working at a veterinary hospital that once they become veterinarians they will reciprocate the gesture to future veterinary students and veterinarians. You may contact a fellow OSU alumni regarding her experience with us, Adriana Garcia, Ph#956-579-9018 @ email adriana.martinez-pena@vca.com