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Duties related to traditional small/mixed practice: collaborating on exams, diagnoses, prescriptions, and surgeries.
Warren Veterinary Hospital is a solo mostly small animal general practice. Patients are mostly cats, dogs, and rabbits but some are pot bellied pigs, snakes, turtles, and chickens. Student will be able to perform physicals, order tests, and trouble shoot with the head veterinarian. Routine and emergency surgical opportunities will be provided depending on student aptitude. Opportunity to explore practice management and ownership challenges could be made available if the student is interested. Students interested in a high case load should plan on summer/spring externships. Students who would like a slower pace should plan on fall/winter externships. The veterinarian is available after hours for any case discussions the student wishes to have regardless of when the externship is planned.
Student will work under the responsible direct supervision of the veterinary supervisor during all aspects of daily general practice. Student will perform patient exams, recommend diagnostics, interpret diagnostic findings, make clinical diagnosis, establish treatment plans, educate clients, Student will assist in surgery and dental procedures. Student will communicate with pet parents regarding diagnosis, recommendations and preventive health care. Student will observe daily interactions and communication of health care team professionals in an extremely busy and efficient well-managed practice.
Intern will complete two weeks shadowing our ER doctors. One week will be spent primarily attending to hospitalized inpatients and seeing incoming ERs, the second week will be overnight ER experience.
All students will have the opportunity to work with multiple different specialty departments during their time at NIVES which include: surgery, internal medicine, cardiology and emergency/critical care. If a particular student wants to concentrate on any one or two specialites they will have the ability to voice that preference. All students would have access to experiencing working in a small animal physical rehabilitation practice which is part of the NIVES hospital but located in the primary care facility next door.
We are known to be a teaching hospital and welcome externships, internships and often can offer a job as an emergency doctor after graduation.
rural community small animal ambulatory practice
Fairfield Equine Associates is an equine practice based in Newtown, CT that practices in Connecticut, New York, Masssachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington. Five months of the year the practice has 2 to 4 veterinairians in Wellington, FL.
Externs live and work at the Newtown, CT hospital facility. A two bedroom apartment is provided for living and the extern is involved with the care or patients in the hospital and with the ambulatory practioners. Externs assist with treatments and patient care, assist with admittance of emergency and after-hours emergencies, anesthesia and surgery and see routine cases and emergencies in the anbulatory portion of the practice.
Large animal veterinary care - predominantly equine with lameness and reproductive focus. Practice also treats other large animals and has an associated small animal hospital.
All externs are put on a rotation with the different clinicians to give them the widest range of exposure to cases. We review the schedule each evening and then place the extern with the doctor that has the most unique cases to offer our students. Musculoskeletal evaluation and ensueing work ups to include diagnostic nerve blocks, digital imaging, and a variety of treatments from standard intra articular medications to regenerative medicine are available.
Veterinary students get hands on experience working in a turkey production environment. Food Safety, enivronmental health, poultry diseases and epidemiology are a few of the other areas that veterinary students are exposed to.