Offsite Electives

Elective experience is regulatory racetrack medicine. It involves lameness extensively along with some medicicine and possibly emergency medicine. Drug testing in the test barn will be a part of this experience also. It is 5 days a week for approximately 6 hours/day and slightly more when drug testing is being involved, as it tends to run another 90 minutes after the races are over. This will occur at Miami Valley Racetrack near Cincinnati Ohio

Valley Veterinary Clinic is a mixed-animal practice serving a rural community. We are less about large agricultural farms and more geared towards hobbyists and homesteaders. We have a high community education and outreach focus and are looking for innovative ways to best serve the new kind of casual farm animal owner emerging in many rural and urban communities. We want to make sure that the three-goat dairies, backyard chickens, and single cow households are maintaining healthy animals. A significant portion of our large animal clinic is made up of horses and goats, with cows, chickens, camelids, sheep, and pigs also being seen on a regular basis. We provide routine and emergency care to our large animal clients, both in-house and with our mobile team.

Our small animal practice is fast-paced and high-volume. We provide full surgery days Monday through Friday, while running four exam rooms. We also allow for 5 to 12 urgent care patients per day, as well as two dental procedures. 

Students can expect a friendly, funny, welcoming environment with opportunities to see a wide variety of cases. They can help out in the barn as well as out on farm calls, assisting in procedures like equine dental floats, castrations, dystocias, lameness exams, radiographs, and sick-animal diagnostics. Over in small animal, observing surgery, dentals, helping with urgent care patients, or shadowing the exam room veterinarians are all options. We have veterinarians in all points of their careers here, willing and open to sharing their perspective with potential new veterinarians. Plus, our support staff is skilled, enthusiastic, fun, and only one of them is a little intimidating. 

2-4 week externship available with 4 impressive mentors in general small animal medicine, diagnostics and surgery.  Like New 5200sq facility with incredible support staff all focused on education.  Small town feel with BIG city medicine for our patients.  Lots of business mentorship available if candidate is interested too.

We are fully mobile mixed animal veterinary practice.  During the time with our practice the student will be traveling with the vet to the appointments.

The clinical rotation in zoological medicine and surgery at Zoo Miami is designed to give senior veterinary students hands-on introductory veterinary experience in clinical zoo animal medicine and surgery and exposure to a large variety of zoo animal species. Students will participate in zoo animal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, preventive medicine, clinical pathology, gross pathology, husbandry, nutrition, and conservation medicine. Students help prepare for and assist with planned medical procedures and emergencies, care of hospitalized animals and monitoring their status, necropsies, and participate in record-keeping, journal reviews, and topic rounds. At the conclusion of the externship, students also give a presentation to zoo staff about a predetermined topic or the results of a small project completed during the externship.

Student will be exposed to and allowed assistance with all levels of specialty reproductive program involving equine primarily and bovine secondarily, including routine breeding management, semen assessments, conformation and ultrasound evaluations, cytologies, uterine culture interpretation and treatment management and other aspects of breeding soundness exams, in vivo and in vitro embryo production and transfers, problem mare management and pregnancy monitoring. Additionally, student may be involved with bovine in vitro embryo production including ovum pick up and IVF. Dairy herd pregnancy checks with student ultrasound observations may also be involved. Opportunities may also involve the establishment of a bacterial culture system. 

Veterinary students will rotate amongst the field and hospital clinicians at Piedmont observing, assisting, and performing clinical skills as appropriate and dictated by the supervising veterinarian. The clinic provides a well rounded experience, having access to most specialists (on staff or visiting) as well as heavy GP and sports medicine case loads in the heart of horse country. Equine disciplines seen are mostly English with some flat and steeplechase racing and occasional Western disciplines. Students work about 40 hours Monday to Friday with opportunities for additional experience after hours present but not required.

General small animal practice. Experience will include medicine, imaging (radiography, ultrasound, and CT) and surgery.  Some of the medicine, imaging, and surgery will be working with specialists in that field.  Some of the medicine, imaging, and surgery will be with a general practitioner.

The student will shadow with our emergency service, a selected speciality service, or a combination of both for an ~40 hour week. They will have interactions with clients, animals, and procedures. 

The Postgraduate Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Course is designed as continuing education for chiropractors and veterinarians. The curriculum meets the standard of education put forth by the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA), the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA) and the Kansas Board of Regents. Its purpose is to provide exceptional education in Animal Chiropractic to ensure that its graduates can practice with the highest Standard of Care.

• The course curriculum consists of at least 210 hours. A minimum of 135 hours are lecture and a minimum of 75 hours are is hands on. For curriculum details please see below.