Offsite Electives

About Our Clinic: Angel Animal Hospital established a tradition over 60 years of providing compassionate veterinary medical care for patients in the Springfield, MO area. As a full-service, small animal hospital, we offer conventional and integrative (natural/alternative) care for our patients. Our Integrative service also provides care for small and large animals patients using a whole-body, functional medicine approach for health.  Together, our services provide a full line of care including cancer treatment, natural care (with a variety of modalities including chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy and several energy based treatments), conventional medicine & surgery, cryosurgery, dental care, and pain management.  

About Our Location: Located in Greene County, MO, the area abounds with outdoor attractions (Dickerson Park Zoo, golf courses, variety of parks), great restaurants, historic museums, and plenty more to explore. We are also within a short drive of many other attractions and activities throughout the Ozarks region of the country. It is a great place for preceptorship, developing your career and/or family!

About this Opportunity: We are currently a two-doctor practice with 9-12 amazing support staff. We are eager to share our wealth of knowledge and experience in conventional and natural/alternative care with a highly motivated veterinary student preceptor! 

We are seeking a candidate who is a team player, punctual, reliable, responsible, intuitive, willing to learn, and a great communicator with a warm/friendly personality. We foster a team-oriented, positive, and collaborative environment in which our purpose is to practice the highest quality medicine and surgery with compassion and an emphasis on client education. You will get hands-on experience and/or mentorship in all aspects of the services we provide (especially those that interest you the most)!

Additional Benefits: Our current hospital schedule allows preceptors time off on weekends to explore and enjoy the attractions in the surrounding area.  In addition to an excellent mentorship opportunity, successful preceptors will earn priority consideration for future employment opportunities.

Contact Information: Please feel free to contact us with any questions!

Contact Name: Dr. Gary Nie (Owner)

Email: gnie@ivsmo.com

Phone number: 417-866-2923

For the students joining us at VCA University, they will be given shadowing opportunities based on their areas of interest/focus.  Our medical bench is diverse, so we are able to offer our externs experience in General Practice wellness, urgent care and also exotic medicine with avian, pocket pets and rabbits.  Most of our anesthetic cases are routine spays, neuters and dentals - The student will be able to observe and assist in these procedures, including dental radiographs and extractions.

Private practice, small animal, rescue/shelter medicine

Students will be helping the teams with appointments, rechecks, and procedures. 

Students will work hands-on with multiple emergency, critical care, triage cases.  They will also scrub in to assist on various emergency surgeries/procedures. 

Working alongside Veterinarians doing physical exams, preventative health measures and minor illness work ups, as well as minor soft tissue surgeries (spay/neuter/mass removals) and dental procedures. We also perform alternative medicine approaches with cold laser therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and cranio-sacral therapy. The student will get to shadow the doctor and also help with restraint and general assisting duties. 

The Advanced Veterinary Care Center (AVCC) in Davie, Florida offers qualified 3rd and 4th year veterinary students a 2 week small animal externship in small animal specialty and emergency/critical care medicine and surgery. The successful applicant can choose from externships in internal medicine, surgery, oncology, or emergency/critical or they can rotate through some or all of the clinical services based on their individual interests. Externs will work with a team of specialists and experienced emergency doctors and will participate in all aspects of our busy clinical practice.

Successful applicants will provide a letter of application with emphasis on specific interest(s) (e.g. internal medicine, surgery, etc.) and at least one letter of reference. Covid vaccination is required.

Travel and lodging are the responsibility of the extern but some assistance may be available.

Interns/Externs will practice under leading specialists in their respective fields including but not limited to Dr. Theresa Fossum, Dr. Brian Beale and Dr. David Dychus. 

Student will be able to observe in any and all surgeries performed during experience and if warrented will be able to assist said surgeries.  Observe numerous small animal appointments, large animal appointments and surgeries and to help with any after hours emergencies.

Texas Avian & Exotic Hospital is an exotic exclusive practice that serves as a referral hospital, but also acts as a primary care and emergency facility. We are fully equipped with a surgery suite, CT, radiology, ultrasound and some in-house laboratory equipment. We see a variety of species including birds (parrots, poultry, raptors), small mammals (rabbits, ferrets, rodents, etc), reptiles (lizards, snakes, tortoises), new world primates and even some small to medium-sized exotic cats.