Offsite Electives

Students will be included in all farm calls that are schedule during his elective time.  Our clinic is run as a mobile, large animal only practice. They will be expected to arrive on time, help get the truck ready for calls at the beginning of the day, run calls and take part on calls, help with billing on our PIMS, restock the truck with anything used that day. The timeframe they will be here is during calving season, so they can anticipate to see calvings, prolapsed vaginas and uterus, as well as manage sick/slow calves and kids/lambs. There may be some bull testing and preparing animals for shows and sales. 

This is an externship that involves riding with 2 production animal veterinarians around 16 counties in Central Virginia. We do herd health work, preventative medicine strategies, field surgeries, and reproduction on beef and dairy cattle, small ruminants, pigs, camelids, poultry and rabbits.

• Conduct patient examinations: obtain histories, perform complete physical examinations, and present findings to the supervising veterinarian.
• Develop clinical reasoning: Create differential diagnoses and recommend diagnostic and treatment plans for common small animal conditions.
• Gain surgical experience: Participate in preoperative assessments, surgical preparation, procedures when appropriate, and postoperative care.
• Interpret diagnostics: Review bloodwork, urinalysis, cytology, radiographs, and other available diagnostic findings.
• Practice client communication: Explain preventive care, discuss diagnostic recommendations, and participate in discharge instructions.
• Improve medical record documentation: Prepare SOAP notes and treatment plans for veterinary review.
• Understand private-practice operations: Observe patient flow, teamwork, clinical efficiency, and continuity of care.

Waterhouse is a busy 5 doctor small animal practice that can provide significant hands on clinical experience. Our location allows us to serve clients from both rural communities and city, giving students exposure to a varied caseload that includes routine wellness visits, complex internal medicine cases and surgery. 

Throughout the externship the student will work one-on-one with different veterinarians gaining exposure to how each clinican approaches cases and makes decisions. Under their supervision the student will have the opportunity to work up cases, perform and interpret diagnostic tests, discuss treatment plans and scrub in on surgeries. 

This elective is a good fit for students who want to build confidence in clinical decision making and gain practical experience with the range of cases they will encountr in small animal general practice 

Our practice offers experience in all large animal species, both food animal and equine. We are a 5 doctor practice in Western MA. Our clientele is 40% food animal (primarily dairy with some beef and small ruminant) and 60% equine (a mix of back yard to performance horses). We host a lot of students, both pre-vet and veterinary and our vets enjoy teaching and working with students. Students who extern with us will be able to gain hands-on experience in food animal medicine, including rectal palpation/ultrasound, emergencies, surgeries and herd-health consultations. In equine medicine, we can offer experience in wellness, dentistry, reproduction (seasonally), sports medicine/lameness and emergencies. 

The Animal Clinic is a busy small animal hospital on Galveston Island. We truly see all creatures big and small, including small farm animals and exotics as well as local wild life. We work closely with the Galveston Island Humane Society and perform all of their surgeries. The animal clinic performs all soft tissue surgeries as well as some orthopedics on a variety of species. We work closely with animal control and do all of their necropies as well as cruelty evaluations. We are the second oldest privately owned practice in Texas. Our externs will be fully immersed into our day to day life. They will have the opportunity to see routine visits as well as emergencies and work up internal medicine cases as well as complex orthopedic cases. They have the opportunity to participate in surgery and even perform simple procedures on shelter animals under direct supervision. The case load we see, will give them a broad experience and great start to real life veterinary medicine. 

Our small-animal general practice offers students a dynamic, fast-paced clinical experience alongside two experienced DVM's from OSU who emphasize critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and practical problem-solving. Students will gain exposure to a diverse caseload encompassing emergency and urgent care, routine wellness examinations, preventive medicine, diagnostic evaluations, and the medical management of both straightforward and complex conditions.

Our facility is equipped with modern diagnostic equipment, providing students with opportunities for hands-on experience and exposure to contemporary diagnostic and treatment modalities.

A significant component of our practice is dedicated to shelter and rescue medicine. We work closely with local animal rescue organizations and manage a broad spectrum of cases, ranging from routine spay and neuter procedures to more complex surgical interventions, including limb amputations, enucleations, and others.

One of the most valuable aspects of our clinical environment is the socioeconomic diversity of our clientele. Students will encounter cases in which clients elect comprehensive diagnostic workups and advanced treatment options, as well as situations requiring thoughtful medical decision-making within significant financial constraints. We emphasize the importance of developing individualized, evidence-based treatment plans that balance medical necessity, patient welfare, prognosis, and client resources.

This experience is designed to strengthen students' clinical judgment, adaptability, diagnostic reasoning, surgical exposure, and client communication skills while demonstrating the realities of practicing high-quality veterinary medicine across a wide range of medical, surgical, and financial circumstances.

Students shadow our DVMs during oral surgery procedrues and consultations.

Our nine-doctor small animal practice has been a fixture in this community for nearly 50 years and is very collaborative. This elective will offer veterinary students a comprehensive exposure to primary care preventative care medicine, workups for acute and chronic illness, dentistry, and soft tissue surgery as well as acupuncture and TCVM. 

The veterinary extern will take an active role in case management with the attending veterinarian, further improving their physical exam skills and formulating diagnostic and treatment plans as well as scrubbing in beside the attending veterinarian for procedures. The goal of the externship is to allow the extern to become confident in their skills prior to going out into practice. 

 

Join us for a fun filled externship with our knowledgeable veterinarians in small animal medicine, surgery, and exotics. They will have experience in spay/neuter surgeries with rescue patients and exams/client communication opportunities. Will be able to engage with our veterinarians, interpret diagnostics, and go over advanced surgical procedures/scrub in and manage cases.