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.
We have 7 veterinarians, 5 certified veterinary technicians, 18 assistants and kennel staff, and 7 receptionists.
Small Animal: Digital radiographs in-house and dentals, ultrasound, class IV laser, in-house urinalysis, CBC/Chem lab, surgery suite, 5 exam rooms, electrocautery
Large Animal: exam room, chute, stocks, scope, ultrasound, digital x-ray
Students coming out to VVC should expect to work 8am to 6pm, typically Monday through Friday, but we are a choose your own adventure kind of place. It is up to the student if they would like to stick with a specific veterinarian or in a certain area of the hospital. Our HR Manager checks in throughout their time with us to make sure they are seeing what they want to see and getting what they are looking for from their time with us. Certain veterinarians will expect the student to be pretty hands-on, others are happy to just have a shadow for the day, so it is easy to pair up with the right fit.
26072 Hwy 30
Rainier, OR 97048
United States