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Visiting students will gain experience with a range of services provided by USDA Veterinary Services (VS). Experiences include field activities that support stakeholders prevent and contain infectious disease incursions, routine surveillance sampling, and import export services, to name a few. Experiences will vary depending on the time of year and agency priorities.
Students who enter the Externship Program are expected to assist the attending doctor or intern with management of hospitalized or out-patient horses including overnight care of critical cases and assistance with emergency surgeries. The students will also be exposed to all aspects of equine ambulatory medicine, and are allowed to participate in the treatment of cases based upon the individual’s knowledge base and level of experience.
AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in North Chicago, Illinois. We generally provide two veterinary exterships per calendar year that are meant specifically for 4th year veterinary students with an interest in pathology and/or laboratory animal medicine. Our goal is to expose the students to these specialties within a pharmaceutical company setting. The students generally spend the first three weeks in the pathology section where they interact with anatomic and clinical pathologist involved in both drug safety evaluation and investigative toxicologic pathology. They also meet scientists in other areas within Preclinical Safety (PCS), such as toxicologists, to learn about the variety of roles within the department. The students participate in meetings and discussions regarding drug discovery and drug development, and are also exposed to some histopathologic evaluation of tissues from laboratory animal species. In the comparative medicine section, the students work with laboratory animal veterinarians and veterinary technicians in their daily duties. The students generally select a topic or project to research that they then present to both departments at the end of their externships.
Shadow and participate in day-to-day activities of private practice veterinarians specializing in production medicine for swine and poultry.
Externs will come to a busy sports medicine, surgery, and reproduction clinic. The extern may choose which doctor they will follow for the day and may rotate through every facet of the clinic. The extern will be able to see many different types of procedures and learn equine medicine in a western performance horse practice.
Pine Bush Equine is located in Orange County, New York, approximately 90 minutes north of NYC. There is a strong surgery caseload. A board-certified university faculty surgeon visits 1-2 days each month for elective procedures. On these surgery days, up to 10 elective procedures are scheduled with additional specialty lameness evaluations. The procedures are usually arthroscopies and airway surgeries, with an occasional fracture repair. Additionally, there is one day each week set aside for more routine surgeries. These commonly include the following: castrations (both routine and cryptorchid), neurectomies, umbilical hernia repairs, splint bone removals, enucleations, and mass removals. Emergency surgeries are sent to a nearby referral center. There is the opportunity for the intern to follow a case to colic surgery at the referral hospital if the schedule permits. A consulting internal medicine specialist travels to our hospital as needed. Gastroscopies are routinely performed by our five veterinarians. Lameness workups and joint injections are scheduled nearly every day. At least 50% of our caseload is Standardbreds, both racehorses in training and breeding stock. Additionally, we see a wide variety of sport horses including hunter/jumper, dressage, and reiners. Also included in our caseload is a portion of pleasure horses and family horses. Cases regularly involve all age groups, from foals to geriatrics. We are the primary veterinarians for the USDA NY Animal Import Center (one of only three import centers in the USA), which provides the opportunity to treat a large number of valuable sport horses and racehorses in quarantine from Europe. We also offer chiropractic and acupuncture for a variety of horses.
Externs are encouraged to learn and assist with procedures if they feel comfortable, and are encouraged to go on emergency calls after hours with the on call veterinarian.
The University of Pennsylvania Office of Animal Welfare (OAW) is the administrative arm of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). As such, the OAW works with the IACUC to assure safety, maintenance, care and use of vertebrate animals for research purposes and to comply with federal, state, and local laws. The externship will provide an understanding of the various processes necessary for proper IACUC assessment and oversight of any activities conducted that have a direct impact on the well-being of animals. These include, but are not limited to, animal husbandry and veterinary care, University policies and procedures, personnel and program management and oversight, occupational health and safety, and IACUC functions.
The elective provides a well-rounded exposure to general veterinary practice, including wellness care, illnesses, routine surgery and dentistry, physical therapy, and more.
Externs may participate or assist in Nuclear Scintigraphy, Digital Radiology, Advanced Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Lameness Exams, Sport Horse Treatments, Three day event competitions, ESWT therapy, documentation of exams, FES and MRI. Externs will be exposed to all phases of the practice and will assist veterinarians and technicians in the exams and procedures.
Extensive hands on experience with one to four ambulatory equine veterinarians. Experience will include all areas of equine veterinary medicine ranging from wellness to extensive lameness.