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Small animal general practice with small percentage exotics (reptiles, pocket pets, birds). In-house laboratory including bloodwork, urinalyses, complete fecal examinations, cytology, etc. On-site diagnostics including digital radiography and ultrasound. Many advanced surgical procedures performed in-house as well as orthopedic procedures (TPLO) performed in-house by traveling surgeon.
Student will shadow veterinarian(s) in all aspects of practice, including outpatient appointments, procedures, client correspodance, emergencies. Additionally, student will particiapte in veterinary technical responsibilites- providing primary patient care, administering treatments, taking samples, etc.
All Creature Features Animal Hospital is a five doctor AAHA accredited small animal veterinary clinic. We have a busy daily caseload which will provide a veterinary extern a good opportunity to gain a lot of exposure to daily veterinary practice. The extern will be allowed to assist the veterinarians with appointments, surgeries, and medical workups. During appointments the extern will be given the opportunity to interact with clients, perform examinations, and begin a medical workup for the case. We schedule surgeries ever day, Monday through Friday, and can easily provide the extern with adequate surgical opportunity. On difficult cases our veterinarians work together as a team and we would gladly welcone input from a senior veterinary student. We promote thorough exams and workups with sick patients. Also, we promote yearly wellness exams to try to identify problems that may be subclinical. We feel that an externship in our practice would prove to be a very rewarding experience.
We are a HVHQSN low cost clinic that focuses on spay/neuter, but we also do many other kinds of surgery because of our large rescue base. We do dentals and rabbits as well. It would be a fast paced, packed learning experience with a lot of surgical experience. A lot of perfecting your surgical technique, hands on dental work, and constant learning in a fun, supportive environment.
We are a newly remodeled facility. We have six exam rooms, a large treatment area, a surgical suite, along with seperate dog and cat wards. We service a large clientele of mostly dogs and cats. We do all in-house labs with Idexx CBC Procyte and Catalyst, that offer telemedicine capabilities. We have digital radiology and will be getting an ultrasound machine in the near future. We offer full dental cleanings and extractions. There is a comference room for students/doctor case review. Student housing is available. We are also one of two clinics that students would have access to work at with both having the same equipment. The clinic has full clinic alarm system for added security and safety. The future plan is to make this a 24 hour hospital when staffing allows. The website has not been updated yet. It will be after the first of the year.
Learning Outcomes: 1) The student will develop analytical and data management skills, including data cleaning, data collation, and risk and epidemiologic analyses related to antimicrobial resistance in animal and human populations. 2) The student will get exposure to methods of how to understand the link between the use of antimicrobials in animal agricultural to antimicrobial resistance in humans, and related human health effects. 3) The student will develop competency in collaborating with a group of diverse research scientists in a private organization. 4) The student will learn the basic principles of writing research reports, and conducting government-funded research.
Assessments: The student will be assessed subjectively throughout the rotation and briefed about his performance by his preceptor at the end of every week of the rotation. Such assessments are to include: base knowledge of subject matter, development of subject matter expertise, proficiency of epidemiological skillset, work efficiency, effective communication, and professional conduct."
Daily Schedule: The student will participate in weekly, or bi-weekly, calls or online video meetings with the project team to discuss daily and weekly objectives, with additional calls as needed. The timing of these meetings may vary according to the schedule of staff members. Objectives may include tasks dealing directly with team members' needs, or they may include tasks specific to the student's responsibilities within the project, such as data management and analysis. As the entire EpiX staff is working primarily remotely, student learning and engagement will be self-driven, but the collaborative and communicative culture of EpiX should be appreciated, with the student striving to contribute to a productive work environment. Email and messaging app (Microsoft Teams) updates to the project supervisor at regular and short intervals are encouraged early on in the internship while workflow is established.
Lexington Hospital for Cats is a feline exclusive, gold standard Cat Friendly Practice. We follow guidelines adapted from those developed by AAFP, AVMA, AAHA, and WVC. Our focus is internal medicine, dermatology, dentistry, nutrition, and behavior. You will be exposed to wellness care including senior cat protocols, curbside outpatient visits, management of dental and ear disease, balancing complicated cases, soft tissue surgery, orthopedic surgery, as caseload allows, and direct patient care. We see complicated cases with many comorbidities.
Experience in a busy 8 doctor spectrum of care small animal practice will include study of dentistry techniques for dogs and cats. Elective experience will stress hands on clinical applications of canine and feline spay/neuters, physical exams, case-work ups, dental and paradental anatomy and treatment of dental problems in dogs and cats. Student is expected to put their knowledge in dental pathology, radiology, extractions and periodontal disease into hands on practice and perform dental cleanings and extractions under supervision.
We are a mixed animal practice (65% small, 20% equine, 15% large animal) with ambulatory and in-house large animal. The doctors have various niches, offering the ability to shadow primarily small animal, more focus on equine, or more focus on large animal. We work with multiple rescues in the area as well as do the sick work and surgeries for the county dog shelter.
Student will assist in small animal surgery and interact with clients. See well patients and participate in cases. Some large animal experience as the clinic sits on the family cattle farm and January is calving month so there could be some cattle work. Mostly small animal though.