Offsite Electives

PIC Swine Veterinary Externship Program

Objective

To expose proactive swine veterinary students to PIC, a pioneering genetics company, with a focus on the role of the swine veterinarian in a high health breeding stock multiplication system.

Program Structure

Two-week schedule combining field experience and office experience in a premier swine genetics company.

Busy small animal ER and specialty clinic with specialists in surgery (2), internal medicine, radiology, oncology, and anesthesiology. Average caseload 40 emergencies per day with 10 - 12 inpatients. Students shadow the emergency doctors and senior nursing staff. Proficient students will be invited to perform procedures, such as laceration repairs, urinary catheter placement, thoracocentesis, etc, and assist with emergency soft-tissue surgeries. 

We are a mixed animal practice that does any domestic species including dogs, cats, dairy, beef, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, swine, and horses. Time will be spent doing 60% small animal appointments and surgeries. The other 40% of the students time will be spent going on large animal calls performing herd health checks, castrations, dehorning, vaccinations, hoof trimming, examinations, surgeries, and any other service needed to be performed.

Shadow Veterinarians performing wellness exams, surgery, and routine and emergency medical treatments on both small animals in hospital and large animals on farm calls

Small animal full service veterinary hospital serving our community. Working families with multiple pets make up a good amount of the client population. Experience will be mostly to be present and participate in the work flow and dynamics of the practice.

The student will perform duties pertaining to conducting and writing a public health focused research project. This includes in-depth review of scientific literature, statistical analysis, and scientific writing. Additionally, the student will participate in professional development activities including, but not limited to, CV/resume analysis, virtual networking, mock interviews, letter of intent writing, and published literature discussions. 

The student will be able to experience a multitude of specialties including surgery, internal medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, and oncology. 

We are a 20,000 square foot, general, exotics, surgical and emergency hospital with a high case load.  The past year we had a total of over 58,000 patient visits. We have a staff of 28 veterinarians and 2 interns. Our externship provides the opportunity to experience all aspects of the hospital, always under the direct supervision of a veterinarian.

Private Practice (clinic and ambulatory)

Sports Medicine, Lameness, Exercise Physiology, Rehabilitation, Chiropractics, Dentistry, Medicine, Reproduction, Podiatry, Surgery

Student will have a varied clinical experience. We are an accreditied AAHA small animal hospital since 1997, with 5 DVM's.  We do many types of surgery and most procedures are done with laser.  We offer abdominal US as well as echo.  We have digital radiography both for general diagnostics and dental.  The student will not only shadow our doctors but will be given the opportunity to perform some routine surgery, examine, diagnose and devise treatment plans with our clinicians .  We see some exotics if they  are interested in that as well.  We all enjoy teaching and learning and generally attend several seminars each year.  I have had several intense Ultrasound courses in abdominal and cardiac imaging. We have high quality Storz endoscope and one of our doctors has had extensive training with that.  So the student would be exposed to a wide variety of learning with hands on experience.