Offsite Electives

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Broward Avian & Exotic Animal Hospital, FL
Description of Elective Experience:

Students will shadow all vets in rooms, surgeries, treatments and rounds with doctors.

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Sagehills Veterinary Services, WA
Description of Elective Experience:

Assisting with small animal medicine, surgery and dentistry as well as large animal medicine, surgery and farm calls.

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Conley & Koontz Equine Hospital, IN
Description of Elective Experience:

Travel with different DVM to ambulatory calls

View surgeries

Assist in anesthesia

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Texas A&M University CVM, TX
Description of Elective Experience:

Soft tissue surgery rotation

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Logan Bethel Veterinary Services, KY
Description of Elective Experience:

Students will ride with vets to experience a normal working day of a large animal veterinarian. There will be opportunity to improve/develop palpation skills. Students will also be encouraged to participate in sick cow work, dystocias, surgery, calf vaccination etc.  The student will also be exposed to general equine practice that will include, lameness, reproduction, and dentistry.   

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Toledo Zoo and Aquarium, OH
Description of Elective Experience:

Students will spend 2-8 weeks assisting the veterinarians and zoo staff with all aspects of clinical zoological medicine, including but not limited to: daily animal care, medical rounds, general medicine and surgery, clinical pathology, radiology, pathology, and record keeping.  Students are encouraged to make use of the literature and other resources available to prepare for procedures and current cases. 

 

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Black Horse Animal Hospital, PA
Description of Elective Experience:

Mixed animal practice.  However, the student will be doing a strictly a large animal experience with dairy and equine.  It will be herd checks, sick cow work and sick equine work with some small ruminants and cervid work.

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Hill and Harbor Veterinary Services, ME
Description of Elective Experience:

Extern ride-along with large animal ambulatory private practice

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Canyon Pet Hospital, AZ
Description of Elective Experience:

Canyon Pet Hospital is an 8 doctor, AAHA accredited small animal hospital. The extern will be exposed

to every aspect of small animal medicine from general practice, surgery, diagnostics, and emergency medicine.

There will also be an opportunity to practice surgical skills on shelter animals.

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Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, WA
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Objectives:

Career:
> Gain exposure to the diverse career opportunities in aquatic animal medicine.
> Learn about job requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities for fish veterinarians working for natural resource agencies.

Clinical:
> Introduction to approaching hatchery site visits--general assessment, evaluation of fish rearing practices (incubation, ponding, juvenile rearing, adult broodstock holding), client rapport/education/communication, and preventative medicine opportunities.
> Be able to perform a comprehensive fish necropsy as well as commonly used diagnostic tests (bacterial culture, tissue samples for virology, cytology, FAT, ELISA, etc.).

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