Offsite Electives

Valley Animal Rehabilitation is proud to serve the Clifton, NJ area for everything pet-related. Our veterinary clinic and animal hospital is run by Dr. Bruce Henderson, who is a licensed, experienced Clifton veterinarian.

Our team is committed to educating our clients in how to keep your pets healthy year round, with good nutrition and exercise. Valley Animal Rehabilitation stays on top of the latest advances in veterinary technology and above all, remembers that all animals and pets need to be treated with loving care in every check-up, procedure, or surgery.

Hartschuh Veterinary Services is a thriving veterinary practice based in New Washington, Ohio. We offer farm animal and companion animal services to our clients and focus on providing a quality service experience for our clients. 

Our companion animal services include routine wellness exams, sick patient exams and care, surgery, and grooming. Our newly remodeled hospital offers three small animal exam rooms, a surgery suite, and ample kennel space for our hospitalized patients. We have in-house IDEXX blood analyzers and digital (DR) x-ray acquisition.

Farm animal work includes bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine, camelid, and equine. We offer routine herd health care for our dairies, which range from 40-400 cows. We also serve many farmer-feeders. Our cattle feeding clients range from individual animals to 1,300 head capacity. Cow-calf herds include Hereford and Angus seedstock operations, club calf producers, and commercial cow-calf herds. Supporting the youth in our community is an important part of our mission; we work extensively with 4-H and FFA youth as they develop their animals for our county fairs. We also place bovine embryos and ultrasound mares to help time breeding. Occasional poultry and pheasant work is also available. 

We pair students with doctors based on their interests and our daily schedule. Students are provided opportunities to examine our patients, create their own plans, and work with our doctors to arrive at an appropriate diagnosis and treatment plan. 

Tripoint Veterinary Clinic is a general practice that will expose the student to the approach to many different types of cases from preventative care to sick appointments and emergencies helping the student understand the process behind a work up for different conditions. Several different types of surgeries and dental work is done in clinic that the student will get to assist with and learn from 

Centro Medico Veterinario Ciudadela in San Juan PR. under the direct supervision of Dr Soleil Gonzalez. This is a companion animal general practice managing high volume of canine and feline patients, focus on wellness and dental health. 

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.