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Veterinary Student Externship
The Animal Health Department is currently accepting externship applications for fourth-year veterinary students (third-year students will be considered if in their clinical year). The Animal Health Department serves the medical and surgical needs of the mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish that make their home at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
Interested students should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, veterinary school transcripts, letters from two professional references, and 2-3 potential time slots to Dr. Ginger Sturgeon via Colleen Yeany (Administrative Assistant) at vethsp@pittsburghzoo.org.
The student will learn the complete operations of a pet service business by direct observation and involvement of ALL aspects of the business, including communication with pet owners, as well as outside veterinary clinics
The student will work alongside our specialists during cageside patient rounds, patient SOAPs, consults/recheck exams, and surgical procedures
We are a 24/7 emergency and critical care hospital practicing top quality medicine and client service. Our externs are treated in the same manner as 4th year students in school. They are given primary case responsibility for a new patient and expected to work it up properly. This is done one on one with the help of a mentor doctor on shift every shift. We encourage learning and critical thinking through experience. The extern will have exposure to all types of cases, including but not limited to intense medicine cases, trauma cases, triages, multiple types of surgeries as well as the simple outpatient cases.
Sheep and Goat Elective. This is a two week elective for 4th year Veterinary Students that is held in February annually. This course is intensive and largely hands on work with sheep and goats. This course includes lectures and field trips to various goat and sheep farms. Students work with a large number of client animals for ultrasounds, disbuddings, dehornings and castrations. There are in house wetlabs at the University at Corvallis as well as in the field procedures and labs. Lectures are from professors and guest lecturers.
The externship is a 3-4 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.
Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc is committed to teaching and strives to involve students and promote their participation in an interesting, diverse, and eye-opening practical learning opportunity. In addition to receiving unique exposure to the business and legal aspects of the veterinary profession, you will be provided with a free room, board and parking, and depending on your school, you may also receive credits for this externship.
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It is our aim to provide a well-rounded, practical experience for our externs in a pleasant and supportive working environment, as well as informative didactic lectures provided by our doctors and outside doctors of specialties not available in our hospital. Extern duties include evaluation, SOAP and formulation of treatment plans for department of animal services patients. After performing a complete history and physical exam on select emergency patients, externs should be able to generate a list of problems and most likely differentials. Externs will assist the doctors with procedures and surgery.
Expose 3rd and 4th year students to programs associated with a large humane society, including veterinary practice (surgery, medicine, and population health), cruelty investigation, animal behavior and modification, and shelter/adoption programs. Students must be attending schools that the Michigan Humane Society has established a specific arrangement/relationship with. Third year students are accepted as long as their clinical rotations have started.
We offer a variety of exposure to different aspects of small animal veterinary medicine that can be tailored to extern's interest. They may spend time in a progressive general practice, high volume emergency service, specialty veterinary medicine or any combination of their choosing.
Student will work in the GDD Operations Center (GDDOC), Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. The GDDOC is an epidemic intelligence unit which uses novel, event‐based surveillance techniques to provide CDC with a single source of reliable, comprehensive, and high quality information on international disease outbreaks and other health threats to better prepare CDC to respond to public health emergencies, within a One Health context. The student will work in CDC's Emergency Operations Center and learn to conduct event-based surveillance from doctoral-level epidemiologic analysts, have a project to deliver to the GDDOC and OSU CVM, and have opportunities to observe other areas of federal public health by attending seminars and networking with other veterinarians and veterinary students at CDC.