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Busy general practice institution seeing dogs, cats, and pocket pets. A wide variety of cases are seen from vaccine appointments to emergencies. In house bloodwork, x-ray, and dental x-rays.
Animal Hospital of Sebastopol is a full-service veterinary medical facility, located in Sebastopol, CA. The busy 6 doctor practice provides medical services for routine and non-routine appointments, surgical services for routine and non-routine procedures, dental care, health screening tests, nutrition counseling, breeding services, preventive medicine, and exotic and avian pet medicine and surgery. Students will contribute to and participate in medical and surgical services alongside the veterinary staff.
Student will spend time on the emergency service and in the intensive care unit. Student will help perform physical examinations, devise differential lists, assist in selecting diagnostics, and create treatment plans. Student may assist in emergency procedures including urinary catheter placement, chest tube/ feeding tube . Exposure to emergency surgies is also available if student is interested.
We are a high volume low cost spay neuter clinic. We also do wellness and preventative medicine and minor health issues.
No emergencies, chronically or injured animals.
We average 25 plus surgeries a day. We see a great deal of wellness every day as well.
I try to give students all the hands on experience we can give them. My staff is excellent with students. We work with a couple RVT programs helping them teach surgery assistance, in house labs, blood draws, surgery prep and recovery plsu day to day operations from check in to check out.
It is rare that student ever leaves here without having learned something unless we feel student is incapable or incompetent...that is rare but it has happened. If I feel a students knowledge level or ability levels is sub par and detrimental to animals or humans here, I will dismiss them. I have done this twice.
We have even worked with local hospital to teach pediattric residents to intubate cats for surgery. If they can tube a cat, a baby is easy..and if it saves a childs life, it is worth it. We had one resident who was pediatric plastic surgeon..who knew..beautiful skin closures all day long! He even assisted me on leg amputation and I let him close it. He even came back to take out the stitches!
We work with rescues and shelters on a daily basis. We do humane cases as needed and able. We are the primary spay neuter veterinrarian for at least 3 shelters.
We have been particularly busy this year. We will pass 4000 or more by Thanksgiving. We have already vaccinated over 4000 animals for rabies this year as I had to re order tags!!!!
My philosophy is something my mentor Dr Beckett once said to me, you got to start somewhere.
We are fast paced. We do like have fun, we do laugh, poke fun at silly things, there is an occaisional prank, but at the end of the day the animals are priority and things are taken care of.
The Externship at Advanced Veterinary Care Group will give each extern as much hands-on exposure as possible. The extern will be exposed to the daily challenges of being a veterinarian, from seeing appointments, performing diagnostics, formulating treatment plans, proposing the plans to the client, and acting on those treatment plans. Plus, at Advanced Veterinary Care Group, we perform advanced surgeries that the vast majority of general medical practices to do perform. Each extern will be able to assist in these surgeries and be provided with education and mentorship.
Student will have the opportunity to observe appointments with DVM, and observe and assist with surgical procedures.
The Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island (VMCLI) is a 28,000 square foot, state of the art, 24-hour, emergency and multi-specialty small animal referral practice, located in West Islip, Long Island (NY). This multi-specialty facility includes services specializing in: Emergency and Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Dermatology, Dentistry, Avian and Exotics, Physical Rehabilitation, and Radiation Oncology. The VMCLI averages 40,300 cases annually consisting of a majority of small animals, avian and exotics, and the occasional large animals (horse, goat, pig). The VMCLI is proud to offer NYS Department of Education accredited postgraduate training programs in a varied number of specialties. Our programs consist of 4th year veterinary externships, 12-month rotating internships in veterinary small animal clinical medicine, designed for veterinarians who graduated recently, and 3-year residencies in Internal Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, and Surgery. The VMCLI is also one of only several AAHA-accredited referral hospitals in the state of New York.
The VMCLI offers an externship program to allow 4th year veterinary students the opportunity to learn from specialists in a teaching environment, as well as get the opportunity to meet potential future Intern candidates. Fourth year externs are accepted based on availability and academic achievement.
The main objective of the Externship Program is to provide in-depth training and preparation, while maintaining a practical outlook. Senior clinicians will make extensive efforts to provide an outstanding program, but the extern is expected to take the initiative in the learning process throughout the externship. Externs will participate in clinical appointments and procedures within the VMCLI Specialty Services. Responsibilities include being punctual to schedule shifts, obtaining patient information and histories of cases, examine patient if feasible, discuss exam findings/treatment plans, and keep medical records. Externs will have hands on access to patients when appropriate.
Externs will work a reflecting schedule of the specialty department they are scheduled to be with. Rotating schedules with several specialties are permitted. Specialty days and hours are generally Monday through Saturday, 8am-6pm, depending on the service.
Externs may apply to the Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island Externship Program by contacting the Hospital Supervisor, Jennifer Larson, LVT. Inquiries for available externship opportunities and a current resume may be sent via email to jlarson@vmcli.com, or faxed to 631-587-2006. Externs may also call with questions to 631-587-0800.
Housing is not offered as part of the VMCLI Externship Program. All housing and transportation arrangements must be made prior to accepting an Externship position. A stipend is also not offered.
Perry Veterinary Clinic (PVC) is a 34 doctor mixed animal practice serving western and central NYS. Our ambulatory service serves primarily dairies. We also see horses, small ruminants, camelids and beef cows. We have 4 companion animal clinics and see primarily cats and dogs with some doctors seeing pocket pets, rabbits and lizards. We offer three types of externship - large animal, mixed animal and companion animal. Externs will be supervised by experienced veterinarians and may participate based on their level of experience. Each externship is unique to the student. The student will be exposed to a number of doctors and will learn different approaches to a situation. Large animal externs will gain exposure/experience on farm in herd health, palpation, ultrasound, sick calls, diagnostics ultrasound, and surgery, as well as interactions with producers and owners. Companion animal externs will have exposure to client interaction, wellness appointments, sick and emergency appointments, surgery, laser therapy and diagnostics. There is also a doctor who practices acupuncture and chiropractic.
Kama'aina Pet Hospital offers not only general medicine to pet families, but is also Oahu's urgent care center for pets. Our cases not only focus on general medicine: spays, neuters, vaccines, dentals and mass removals, but also on urgent care cases that may involve advanced critical care, blood transfusions, gastric forign body surgeries, splenectomies, and cystotomies.
Students will gain extensive hands on experience with small animal clinical cases. They will learn how to interpret patient history and physical exam findings into a workable differential list that will direct diagnostics and treatment plans. Students will have experience with soft tissue surgeries, interpretting radiographs, and working through abnormalities on bloodwork to determine the patient diagnosis.
Following the externship, students should have gaines a workable knowledgebase on clincal cases and approaches to medicine.
We are a general small animal and exotic practice. We practice high quality medicine and offer surgical procedures for both small animals, but as well as numerous surgical procedures for small companion animals like rabbits and ferrets, as well as numerous reptiles. We allow veterinary students to shadow the doctors during the examination and discussion with the owners. Given COVID, we currently are not allowing clients into the hospital, so there will be opportunity for the student to perform physical exams and make their own assessment of cases.
A large focus will be on different medications and techniques for exotic animals, since this is not a common field of study and allow the student to gain some clinical application for exotic animal medicine.