Offsite Electives

Veterinary Student Externships @ Bond:
➔ Our goals for hosting Veterinary Student Externships at Bond is to provide a
comprehensive hands-on clinical experience to help their growth and
development during their final years of veterinary school.
➔ While these students are with us, we want to ensure they are exposed to a
variety of urgent care cases and routine wellness scenarios. It is important that
we use this time to properly engage these students with our best practices of
medicine and communication.
➔ Externs will be from veterinary schools across the country, primarily ranging
from 3rd to 4th year. You will be responsible for appropriately guiding them
through the various skills they are expected to develop while spending time in
our clinics.
➔ Below is an outline of what our externs can be performing and observing,
as well as tasks and actions we should avoid having them perform while
spending time with us.
Allowed to:
● Appointments
○ Perform: Writing all medical records for any doctor whose appointment
for which they are present (scribe role, including
history-taking/presenting case to DVM).
○ Observe: Estimate creation and Presentation by VA/DVM.
○ Observe: Development of treatment plan.
○ Perform: Physical examination with oversight of veterinarian when
appropriate
○ Observe: Appropriate restraining techniques for animals.
● Treatments
○ Perform: Blood pressure (doppler, indirect under supervision of
LVT/DVM)
○ Observe: Assist treatment team administering medications, SQ fluids,
IV fluids,etc.(Under direct supervision of LVT or DVM)
○ Observe: Radiograph interpretation by DVM.
● Procedures (Perform)
○ Perform: Place urinary catheters in male dogs (under direct supervision
of LVT and/or DVM)
○ Perform: Draw blood on stable animals from Cephalic, and Saphenous
veins, under supervision by a nurse (2 attempts maximum per pet)

○ Observe: Cystocentesis (DVM/LVT to perform), extern can help in use of
ultrasound to identify anatomy

● Surgeries
○ Perform: Scrub in and assist in any procedure as long as they are fully
overseen by the Doctor who is performing said procedure.
○ Perform: Scale and polish under the supervision of an LVT or DVM.
○ Perform: Assist anesthetic team (documentation, checking blood
pressures).
● Laboratory Tests
○ Perform: PCV/TS, USG, Azo strips, Lactate, BG (under supervision of an
LVT or DVM)
○ Observe: Sample preparation for reference laboratory testing
○ Perform: Prepare and review ear cytology samples. (under guidance/
supervision of an LVT or DVM)
○ Perform: Prepare and review blood smear samples. (under
guidance/supervision of an LVT or DVM)
○ Observe: Diagnostic interpretation by DVM.
● Client Communication
○ Observe: Surgical discharge of patients.

Not Allowed to:
● Appointments
○ See appointments on their own.
● Treatments
○ Administer IV treatments.
○ Administer vaccines.
○ Perform treatments of any kind without direct supervision by LVT/DVM.
● Procedures
○ Perform cystocentesis
○ Place IV catheters
○ Perform procedures of any kind without direct supervision by LVT/DVM.
● Surgeries
○ Perform surgeries on any client owned animals
○ Assist with any dental extractions
○ Administer anesthetic medications
○ Intubate or extubate any client owned animals.
● Client Communication
○ Communicate financial information or code status

Usually when we have Vet students come through, we have them rotate through our 4 doctors where they can learn different styles of communication despite us having very similar ways of practicing. We also have them rotate through surgery and dentistry. We intend the student mostly observe during examination rooms and then conversation and case workup takes place together after stepping away from the client. We discussed diagnostic results together and will have random moments of impromptu quiz questions etc. 

Equine Medicine and Surgery is an 100 % equine practice specializing in racetrack medicine. Students will be exposed to a wide array of clinical cases with an emphasis on lameness and respiratory issues. Students will have an opportunity to observe and participate in lameness exams as well as diagnostic radiographs and ultrasound. Endoscopic exams are also a large part of our practice and students will be assisting in and diagnosing upper airway issues such as DDSP and entrapped epiglottis as well as lower airway EIPH and inflammation. 

Student will be shadowing 3 different GP DVMs throughout the course of 2 weeks. The hospital is also open for Urgent Care services on the weekends - if the student elects to shadow on those days they will have exposure to more sick patients.

In addition to seeing exams, the student will also shadow the DVMs in soft tissue surgery and dentistry. If there are team meetings they will be invited to participate. 

Our goal is to meet the externs at their levels of education and experience and to provide opportunities for growth in areas that they deem to be lacking.

We are a three doctor small animal general practice in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. We offer preventative care for dogs and cats, as well as appointments for illness. We do daily anesthetic dental cleaning with extractions as needed, spay and neuter surgeries.  We occasionally perform other surgeries including mass removals, cystotomies, gastrointestinal foreign body and explores as needed. Students would be involved in all types of appointments and procedures. 

The student will have an opportunity to participate in small animal physical exams, venipuncture, vaccination, surgical preparation, surgical assist, radiology, dental radiology and assist in COHATs. In addition the student will observe and participate in client communication.

The student will be given opportunity to evaluate lab results and observe echocardiograms and abdominal ultrasounds.

Animal Care Clinic is a small animal practice that focuses on canine and feline patients. We see patients almost daily for wellness check-ups, sick or wounded appointments and routine surgeries incuding spays, neuters and occasionally doctors will remove masses, repair ACL tears and amputations. The student will be able to float and see all of these while they are here at the clinic.

Externs will be exposed to all aspects of turkey primary breeding. Experiences may include visits to one or both of our hatcheries, turkey rearing farms, turkey egg production farms, and our company laboratory. Daily activities may include observing everything from flock inspections, production visits, communications with R&D team (geneticists), and communication with production team, to vaccination plan development and administration, turkey transport, animal welfare audits, and biosecurity training and assessment. 

The student will rotated through the cardiology service with three full time cardiologists.  Focus will be placed on physical examination, diagnostic plan creation, ECG interpretation, thoracic radiograph interpretation, and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the clinical setting. 

Our clinic is a 46 year old general practice in rural southeastern Ohio. While we were originally a truly mixed animal practice, we are now primarily small animal. Dogs & cats make up the gross majority of our patients, but we do see a small amount of chickens, rodents, snakes, horses, and occasionally food animal patients when they are brought into the clinic. We no longer make farm calls. We have over 1,700 clients, and see a wide variety of medical and surgical cases.