Offsite Electives
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Assisting with small animal medicine, surgery and dentistry as well as large animal medicine, surgery and farm calls.
Travel with different DVM to ambulatory calls
View surgeries
Assist in anesthesia
Soft tissue surgery rotation
Students will ride with vets to experience a normal working day of a large animal veterinarian. There will be opportunity to improve/develop palpation skills. Students will also be encouraged to participate in sick cow work, dystocias, surgery, calf vaccination etc. The student will also be exposed to general equine practice that will include, lameness, reproduction, and dentistry.
Students will spend 2-8 weeks assisting the veterinarians and zoo staff with all aspects of clinical zoological medicine, including but not limited to: daily animal care, medical rounds, general medicine and surgery, clinical pathology, radiology, pathology, and record keeping. Students are encouraged to make use of the literature and other resources available to prepare for procedures and current cases.
Mixed animal practice. However, the student will be doing a strictly a large animal experience with dairy and equine. It will be herd checks, sick cow work and sick equine work with some small ruminants and cervid work.
Extern ride-along with large animal ambulatory private practice
The externship is a 3 week hands-on opportunity for 3rd and 4th year veterinary students to work with Dr. Charlotte Lacroix on issues affecting veterinary medicine, including analysis of emerging business and legal issues, employer/employee contract negotiations, the buying and selling of veterinary practices, and the relationship between practice owners. Whether you are considering attending law or business school in the future, hope to learn more about running a successful practice or simply want to learn more about the challenges confronting the veterinary profession, your externship will broaden your view of veterinary medicine, the business, commercial, legal and ethical concerns it must address, and teach you about the practical “business” of being a veterinarian.
Canyon Pet Hospital is an 8 doctor, AAHA accredited small animal hospital. The extern will be exposed
to every aspect of small animal medicine from general practice, surgery, diagnostics, and emergency medicine.
There will also be an opportunity to practice surgical skills on shelter animals.
Objectives:
Career:
> Gain exposure to the diverse career opportunities in aquatic animal medicine.
> Learn about job requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities for fish veterinarians working for natural resource agencies.
Clinical:
> Introduction to approaching hatchery site visits--general assessment, evaluation of fish rearing practices (incubation, ponding, juvenile rearing, adult broodstock holding), client rapport/education/communication, and preventative medicine opportunities.
> Be able to perform a comprehensive fish necropsy as well as commonly used diagnostic tests (bacterial culture, tissue samples for virology, cytology, FAT, ELISA, etc.).