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We are a busy mixed animal practice in a rural setting. This is a true "rural, country hospital". Students would have amply opportunity for large and small animal medicine and surgery. We have modern equipment and lots of employees to help in all areas. We also try to include some involvement in the business aka reception area of the clinic to give a rounded tour of what happens in this type of business.
Work alongside shelter veterinarians at the ASPCA Cruelty Recovery Center, caring for canine victims of natural or man-made disasters.
Service learning - service & outreach
Very busy small animal practice with quality medicine and amazing staff
Students will spend time rotating with different doctors in the practice on their appointment days and surgery days. They will get hands on experience with physical examinations and diagnosis and treatment plans with their assigned DVM. Surgery days will consist of a mix of dental, elective, and advanced soft tissue procedures. One surgeon routinely performs orthopedic procedures.
We like our externs to be as hands on as possible. Typically the extern will shadow one of the doctors for the first week and then the doctors will shadow the extern for the remainder of the visit.
At Lindsay Wildlife Experience, externs will gain experience in both wildlife and captive animal medicine. The first few days will consist of shadowing the veterinarians or technicians in both areas, and externs are expected to become familiar with the basics, including anatomy, triage, and handling. Depending on student performance, subsequent weeks will allow the student to hone their skills through assisting the veterinarians. There may also be opportunities to attend didactic classes and participate in journal club.
Veterinary students may also assume primary case responsibilities, including triage examinations, forming treatment plans, and performing common procedures (including fecals, manual WBC, phlebotomy, and time permitting, laceration repairs, and surgical procedures) under the direct supervision of one of the veterinarians or registered technicians. These will depend on the caseload as well as the student’s preferences.
Our caseload at LWE consists of birds (the majority of our patients, including songbirds and birds of prey), mammals (including squirrels, opossums, raccoons, bobcats, coyotes, and beavers), and herps (snakes, lizards, salamanders, and frogs).
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North Andover Haverhill Animal Hospital (NAHAH) is a state-of-the-art surgical referral and wellness center and is a full-service animal hospital complete with advanced diagnostic instrumentation, digital x-ray, in-house laboratory, fully equipped intensive care unit, onsite and online pharmacies, and much more. Our advanced diagnostic and surgical capabilities enable us to provide the highest standards of veterinary medical, surgical, and dental care for our patients. The student will have the opportunity to shadow doctors in exam rooms and surgeries and immerse themselves in the day-to-day operations of a busy medium-sized veterinary practice. The student will gain exposure in both general practice medicine as well as routine and advanced surgery.
The student will have the opportunity to work directly with each of our four doctors throughout the rotation. While in the small animal practice they will work with the attending doctor seeing in-house appointments for routine check-ups and emergent issues as well as in surgery performing both routine and complicated procedures. They will have the opportunity to work with our large animal ambulatory vets while on calls for cattles, horses, and small ruminants performing a variety of routine and emergency work on the farm.
Banfield Pet Hospital’s Veterinary Affairs team offers student research externship positions during their clinical rotation year. The Veterinary Affairs team is responsible for identifying opportunities to improve the quality of veterinary care provided in Banfield hospitals and developing and implementing systems to enact those improvements. This work is done primarily through analysis of data from the centralized electronic medical record (PetWare®) database, use of other internal and external information sources including other internal electronic reporting, record review, peer-reviewed literature, hospital team member and client surveys, subject matter expert consultations, and other veterinary and pet care industry partnerships. The work of the Veterinary Affairs team has led to evidence-based changes to practice policy, identification of new equipment and product needs, and development of hospital and client materials, to name a few.
The student extern will work on a project while also receiving training and mentorship from the Veterinary Affairs team and will be working at Banfield’s Central Team Support (national headquarters) in Vancouver, Washington (USA). The extern will have the opportunity to fully engage in projects that support Banfield’s Veterinary Medical Quality program, focusing on patient care and outcome(s). Duties may include (but are not limited to) literature reviews, medical record reviews, and analyses of pet population health data (e.g., descriptive statistics). Student projects will be based on Banfield practice priorities and needs at the time of the externship and student skillsets. Students with knowledge and interests in companion animal health, epidemiology/population health management, electronic health data, applied clinical research and veterinary medical quality will be given preference.
In addition to active participation in project and other team meetings, other major components of the externship include learning about corporate veterinary practice, career options outside of the clinical environment by meeting with veterinarians working on different teams within the Banfield organization and learning about their career paths, and other Mars Veterinary Health and Petcare business units. Externships close out with an oral presentation of project findings and recommendations to the Veterinary Affairs team.