Offsite Electives

We are Veterinary Emergency Group, an organization founded on a single mission: helping people and their pets when they need it most. VEG's rapidly growing group of hospitals has revolutionized pet emergency and urgent care with a client-centered approach, rapid response times, and a highly focused-emergency-only staff. With multiple locations, we offer the flexibility, mentorship, and diverse learning experience you want. Our industry-leading compensation, unlimited CE, and growth opportunities are just part of what makes VEG the place for emergency doctors to work.

VEG's Externship Program allows students to gain hands-on experience in emergency medicine while working right alongside our skilled emergency doctors. Students will focus on learning how to effectively communicate with clients, diagnose a variety of emergency conditions, develop emergency treatment plans and collaborate with support staff in a fast-paced environment.

Riverview, LLP is an agribusiness based in Morris, Minnesota with dairy and beef farms in both the upper Midwest and Southwest. We provide an opportunity to engage with our on-staff veterinarians while working on-farm to gain practical experience in dairy or youngstock management, working in the various production areas of our farm – maternity, ICU, feeding, reproduction etc. through tailored rotations.  During the 2-week externship we encourage students to implement a practical research project of importance to the student and to Riverview, in collaboration with university veterinary faculty and Riverview’s on-staff veterinarians. 

We have 13 hospitals in our group that we rotate students.  We transport students to different hospitals so that they can observe a variety of management and client engagement styles.  We take students to dinner once and sometimes twice a week.  We invite a variety of our Associate veterinarians and Practice Managers to these dinners so that students can ask questions and get perspective on veterinary medicine.  We limit participation in our program to 3rd and 4th year students.

Small animal general practice in NYC where students will be shadow appointments and surgeries. A boarded cardiologist performs echocardiograms on Tuesdays that students may be a part of.  Start time is 8am and end time is 5pm. 

We plan on taking students on a variety of site visits to our pullet and layer facilities within the Trillium Farms system in Ohio. During the week they will get to learn about daily management practices, how to necropsy chickens and collect samples, basics of biosecurity and disease surveillance programs, will have the opportunity to do rounds topics on relevant diseases, and interact with farm staff. 

This is a privately owned, small town, small animal general practice in NE Ohio.  We are a 3 person practice with plenty of friendly and helpful staff in a newly expanded building. The student will be on the frontlines of diagnosing and treating all animals in this busy medical and surgical practice. Two of the veterinarians do some production animal medicine after small animal hours, so there would be a possible opportunity for food animal as well.

Work alongside Dr Frank McHugh our founding DVM, current medical director, and chief surgeon. Dr. McHugh does surgery, dentals and we see a lot of dermatology cases. Students could possibly be part of the following surgeries: spay, neuter, pyometra, umbilical and inguinal hernia repair, bladder stone removal, foreign body removal surgery, eye enucleation, cherry eye surgery, mass removals small and large. 

Allen Equine Veterinary Services is a two-doctor equine ambulatory general practice with focus on equine performance (lameness exams, chiropractic, acupuncture, dentistry). We do see some daytime emergencies as well. Student will participate in vaccine appointments, perform physical exams, draw blood, view lameness exams, assist in scrubbing for joint injections, assist with dental exams and floats, and anything else that occurs during the day. 

We have a 15 doctor 24 hour AAHA hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.  We operate as a general practice during the day then transition to an emergency hospital at night and on the weekend.  We also have an internal medicine specialist and a surgeon working here.

We try to expose the externs to all we have to offer so we have them do some GP day shift, spend some time in surgery and also work some nights and/or weekends to get exposure to the ER side of the hospital.  If their interests lie elsewhere, we will accommodate that as long as they fulfill the requirements of the externship.  We try to expose them to everything the first week then let them pick and choose where they want to spend the rest of their time.  

We are an after hr emergency clinic open when regular veterinary practices are closed.  We offer ultrasound,X-ray,blood work, surgery,out patient and ICU/ hospitalization.