Offsite Electives

Bovine, equine and small ruminant practice.  Hands on ambulatory experience

Overall Small animal general practice exposure involving routine preventative care procedures including examinations, vaccinations, and dental prophylaxis.  General primarily soft tissue surgeries including primarily neuters, ovariohysterectomies, and growth removals.  Occasional canine c-sections or small animal exploratory surgeries.  Focus on client education.

Students rotate between general appointments, emergency, surgery, dentistry and internal medicine. Practice management with owners and hospital adminstrators is also available. Some doctors have externs do more shadowing, while others have them do they whole case as primary clinician while providing support and back up.

Student will have a well rounded general practice experience.  There will be opportunities to work with 4 doctors with varying interests in small animal, large animal and exotic pets.  Experiences will include appointments, surgeries and emergency/urgent care.

Students will be paired with Doctors and Tecnicians to be involved in all surgical and medical procedures possible. You will assist in procedures and, depending upon individual skills and learned experience, may be allowed to perform various Surgical and Medical procedures under direct guidance of a Technician or Doctor. We want students to get hands-on exposure. We have a complete practice, offering advanced ear care with video otoscopes, complete sugical and advanced surgical techniques, lapaoscopy, endocsopy, arthroscopy, dentistry, and more. We also offer experience in many diagnostic and therapy modalities (see staffing and equipment resource tab). Client education is a primary goal of this practice. Client communication will be encouraged, inlcuding history-taking and charting.

The Alvarado Veterinary Clinic offers an excellent externship program for 4th year Vet Students. Our externs have come from every veterinary school in the U.S. as well as from Canada, Germany, England, Poland, Ireland, and Australia. A typical externship lasts from 1-6 weeks and varies depending on the student’s needs. We provide a place to stay located just behind the clinic.

Not sure what area of veterinary medicine you want to practice in? As a busy large mixed animal practice you will get to experience all areas of veterinary medicine. You will be able to observe case work ups, surgeries, go on farm calls, and assist with after hour emergencies. Our goal at the Alvarado Veterinary Clinic is to be as good as any specialty clinic that focuses on small animal, food animal, or equine medicine

We also offer a 1 year internship program and our interns are generally picked from the prior year’s class of externs. To see more details on the AVC hospital and facilities, and to check out internship opportunities, please check the Internship portion of the website.

We are probably 60% small animal, 20% equine, and 20% food animal. We average approximately 100-120 cases a day

I hope a Ohio State University veterinary student can bring knowledge to my practice.  I also hope it is a learning experience for any .  I hope a Ohio State University veterinary student finds that we have a lot of knowledge here at the clinic and it will assist any student in becoming a great large animal veterinarian in the future. 

Working in a private small animal/pet animal practice.  Recommending wellness programs, general surgery, dentistry, and evaluation and complete work up of patients. 

Hurricane Animal Hospital will provide students with the ability to utilize and expand their skills through diagnostics, treatments, client communications and surgery exposure in the day-to-day workings of a general practice.  We typically provide opportunities for students to take the lead in routine surgery cases from our local shelters, these range from electice ovariohysterectomy to would management or fracture stabilization.  We see a variety of medical cases as well as preventative wellness care.  

It is important to our team that we provide you with a fun learning enviroment and supportive mentorship along with challenging you to step out and make your own decisions so you can become a proficient general practitioner.  

We are a mostly small animal practice in Northwest, Ohio. We see roughly 5-8% large animal (equine, bovine, caprine, ovine and porcine) and some exotic pets. We are a very fast-paced, busy practice in a rural area whose main focus is taking care of our people and their pets. Our practice performs a fair amount of canine reporductive work including artificial and surgical inseminations as well as cesarean sections. An extern with us would get a great view of veterinary medicine. They could perform spays and neuters and observe c- sections, cystotomies, exploratories, dental prophys and many other surgeries. We also have many equipment a tools to help us with medical cases as well. We would analyze bloodwork, read fecals, interpret radiographs and ultrasounds. Our staff enjoys teaching and coaching and we would love to have a veterinary student join our team to better their knowledge of the veterinary profession.