Offsite Electives

We welcome students to gain experience in general practice. Our hospital offers wellness, urgent care, and general surgery. 

Town & Country Veterinary Hospital is an independently owned, small-animal general practice located in Media, PA, serving the greater Aston/Delaware County area. Our four-doctor team provides comprehensive wellness, medical, surgical, and dental care, with an emphasis on evidence-based, multimodal medicine.  As a privately owned practice (not part of a corporate consolidator), we place a strong emphasis on continuity of care, client communication, and clinical autonomy. Students on elective rotation will be integrated into daily appointment flow, surgery, and case management alongside our doctors and support staff, gaining exposure to the operational and clinical realities of independent general practice.

This fourth-year clinical rotation offers an immersive experience within a high-volume Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) service at a busy specialty referral hospital. Students will participate in the assessment, diagnosis, stabilization, and management of a diverse caseload of emergency and critically ill patients, working alongside board-certified specialists and experienced emergency clinicians.

Students will gain hands-on exposure to a wide variety of medical and surgical emergencies, including trauma, respiratory distress, neurologic crises, cardiovascular emergencies, toxicities, endocrine disorders, and critically ill hospitalized patients requiring intensive monitoring and advanced supportive care. Responsibilities may include patient evaluation, development of diagnostic and therapeutic plans, emergency procedures, case presentations, medical record documentation, and client communication under clinician supervision.

A unique aspect of this rotation is the close collaboration with multiple specialty services, providing students direct exposure to Neurology, Surgery, Cardiology, Oncology, and Internal Medicine. Through interdisciplinary case management, students will learn how specialty consultation enhances patient care and will develop a deeper understanding of referral-level medicine.

Students will also have access to advanced diagnostic imaging and diagnostic modalities, including:

• Computed Tomography (CT)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Comprehensive abdominal and thoracic ultrasonography
• Echocardiography
• Advanced laboratory and critical care monitoring techniques

This rotation is designed to strengthen clinical reasoning, emergency decision-making, patient stabilization skills, and understanding of specialty referral medicine. By the completion of the rotation, students will have gained valuable experience managing complex cases in a fast-paced environment while working within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering advanced veterinary care.

We are a busy 24/7 Emergency and Specialty, 12 doctors run ER, Dermatology, Oncology, and Surgery. We love putting students in all departments, diving into the workup, discussing rule outs, making action plans. Students can scrub in, perform certain centeses under our guidance, etc 

Alaska PAWS (formerly Alaska SPCA) runs a non-profit veterinary clinic and adoption center facility headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. The primary clinic focus is low-cost, high-volume spay and neuter services, but we also offer wellness and sick-pet exams, soft-tissue and orthopedic surgeries, and dental cleanings and extractions. In addition, we run outreach clinics for local unhoused persons and their pets and remote spay/neuter clinics in underserved and non-served communities throughout Alaska. 

Legacy Veterinary Solutions is privately owned and provides compassionate, high-quality care to a diverse patient population including cattle, horses, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs, and cats. We are truly mixed with about half large animal and half small animal patient distribution. Our services include preventative health care, vaccinations, soft tissue surgery, dentistry, and bovine reproduction with Boviteq. 

Externship with the internal medicine service. Will be with either internal medicine doctor and or hospitalist to shadow in hosp transfer cases vs out patient appts. Will take in cases with internist, perform exams, formulate problem lists, ddx and treatment and diagnostic plans.

South Loup Vet clinic is a rural mixed animal practice that is 40% cow/calf and backgrounders,  10% small ruminant, 20% equine and, 30% small animal. In August - September we see mostly small animals and are doing early preg checks by ultrasound on cows and heifers, with some cow calf clients beginning their weaning the last weekend of August. We see horses with dental floats this time of year and being rural, we take our own client/patient emergencies for both large and small animals so students are likely to see those as well. Of course routine companion animal exams and vaccines are constant. The goal being for the student to see a variety of veterinary medicine while also understanding how vital a rural veterinary practice can be to a small community and surrounding ones as well as the importance of being accessible to the farmer/ranchers in our area. 

We are a full scale hospital. We are NYC's only exclusively exotic companion ani.al hospital. We perform a wide range of services from:

Surgery

Advanced radiology (digital xrays and CT scan onsite)

Endoscopy

Emergency and wellness exams

The elective externship at Creekside Animal Clinic will provide students with hands-on experience in a fast-paced companion animal general practice. They will work alongside experienced veterinarians and the medical team, gaining exposure to preventative care, wellness and sick-patient examinations, diagnostics, surgery, dentistry, medical record documentation, client communication, and case management. The experience is designed to strengthen clinical knowledge, decision-making skills, and confidence as students prepare for graduation and entry into veterinary practice.