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Golf Rose Animal Hospital is a 24-Hour Emergency/Critical Care and General Practice hospital, serving both small animals and “pocket pets”. Students on externship will work with one of our clinicians serving as a mentor (either during the day or emergency hours). This experience is geared towards a “docter-in-training” method and those involved will develop both medical and surgical skills that will aid them as future clinicians. Students will be allowed (but not limited to) to do the following
1. Physical examinations, client communications (ie. taking history, triage)
2. Laboratory diagnostics: blood draws, practice using in-house laboratory equipment (ie. CBC/CHEM/UA)
3. Radiography, Ultrasound: interpreting radiographs/ultrasound, practice taking radiographs
4. Dispensing medications/discussing treatment plans with clinicians
5. Aiding clinicians in the surgical suite, performing surgical skills (ie. Spays, neuters, mass removals, dentals, etc)
Why not share your love helping us assist low income owners with the neededpet care. We are a charity veterinary office that provides care for the pets of low income, under employed, handicapped, military service anaimal and those on social security. We seek a loving professional that seeks to improve the lives of owners and pet clients.
We are a 3 doctor general small animal practice with emphasis on dentistry and integrative medicine.
Students will be immersed in our every day appointments and surgeries. We will help them hone their skills.
The student will be required to assist in the everyday activities. We will be doing routine small animal elective procedures, equine reproduction , dentistry and ambulatory services as well as equine lameness exams and radiographs. It will probably include nerve blocks and flexion tests. It will probably include colic exams and suturing lacerated horses. The day will start at 7:30am and end between 6 and 8 PM.
Student would shadow one of the three veterinarians at Town and Country in all appointments, scrub into and aid in surgeries, and help to create and execute treatment plans. In the beginning of the externship the student will be largely responsible for shadowing and learning how the practice functions. As the 2 week program progresses the student will (if ability permits) begin to ‘lead’ appointments and take the lead in communicating with clients.
Students gain surgical and clinical experience in a high-volume spay/neuter/wellness setting: seeing wellness visits and performing spay and neuter surgeries under the direct supervision of a veterinarian. Everyone at PfA generally likes each other and gets along, even under stressful circumstances, and our externs seem to get a lot out of their experience with us.
Equine / live stock ambulatory service.
The Piedmont Equine Practice offers a student externship program that provides both clinical and ambulatory experience for veterinary students only. Our client base consists primarily of English riding disciplines of eventing, dressage, show hunters, foxhunters, show jumpers, pleasure and race horses. We also see a number of horses of the western discipline.
As a private practice the amount of “hands-on” experience is somewhat limited. The benefit of an externship at a private practice as opposed to a larger hospital is a student will receive much more one-on-one time with the veterinarian for case discussion. All the veterinarians enjoy having students visit and have a wealth of knowledge to share.
Since our clinic opened in Fall 2006, The Piedmont Equine Practice has offered specialized surgeries by a boarded surgeon such as arthroscopy, laryngeal surgery, soft tissue and emergency surgery. Piedmont Equine Practice also offers nuclear scintigraphy, video endoscopy and advanced reproductive procedures. There is also a boarded internist and ophthalmologist that make biweekly visits to the clinic to perform specialized exams and procedures.
Typically the externships last from 2-3 weeks. Students are asked to participate in weekend emergencies and assist with in-house patient care.
Housing is available to the student onsite at no charge. A car for transportation is not required once at the clinic however students will be responsible for transportation to and from the airport. Dulles (IAD) is our closest airport.
The Piedmont Equine Practice limits the number of externships to not exceed two students at any given time. This enables us to give more experience and time to each individual student. Please contact us as soon as possible when setting up externships as space is limited. The practice is the busiest from April through October. Application requirements are a letter of intent, resume and at least one letter of recommendation from an equine veterinarian (private practitioner or clinical professor).
Student will rotate through the various departments of the hospital shadowing veterinarians, veterinary specialists and certified vet techs and vet tech specialists. Students also have the ability to focus on specific individual specialties if they choose and will be scheduled accordingly if that is the case. Student schedules and rotations are managed and facilitated by an experienced certified veterinary technician. Central Hospital hosts many veterinary students completing required rotations throughout the year and our staff of board certified veterinarians has broad experience working with students.