Offsite Electives

We are a busy fear free small animal practice that sees appointments (well visit and sick pets) and performs a variety of surgical and dental procedures 4-5 days a week.  The extern will have the opportunity to see appointments and assist in surgery when appropriate.

Full service open admission shelter.  We contract with 39 municipalities to provide support for stray animals and families in need in their communities.  Externs will have the opportunity to participate in high volume, high quality spay neuter for both shelter animals and public clients.   They will be able to join in shelter rounds, dentistry, population management and protocol development. We also host monthly Wellness clinics for underserved communities.  Student externs will work one on one with our Medical Director and also have the option to spend time in different departments such as Admissions to learn more about Shelter management and counseling owners considering surrender.  The Medical Director is directly involved in behavioral health management of the shelter population as well so student externs with an interest in behavior are welcome to join these discussions as well

The Extern can examine patients, discuss their examination findings with supervision or for feedback, develop an initial problem list, a list of differential diagnoses, propose a treatment plan, etc. Explain how and why your approach may differ from theirs. Allow them to observe your client communication techniques. Discuss interpretation of test or imaging results and how they alter your differential diagnosis list.

Externs can perform/assist with routine surgical procedures, dentistry or other treatments under the direct and consistent supervision of a licensed DVM. The DVM must be scrubbed in whenever the extern is. 

As it relates to the client and informed consent, we have created the attached form for use as needed. It can be generated in AVImark.

The supervising DVM is ultimately responsible for case outcome and case management so it is important that they remain attentive to the activities of the extern. 

The MSPCA-Angell West, in Waltham, MA, offers 1-6 week externships to interested veterinary students. A wide variety of rotations are available to externs including Avian/Exotic Medicine, Dermatology, Emergency/Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Urgent Care. Externs are paired with senior veterinary staff and participate in clinics, inpatient case management, cage-side rounds and didactic rounds. If time permits, externs can spend additional time in clinics or shadowing an intern on the emergency service. The goal of our extern program is to provide veterinary students with an opportunity to observe a busy specialty referral medical practice and learn the foundational aspects of hospital practices and procedures. 

We are a mixed animal practice that sees dogs, cats, exotics and some large animal patients. We provide a wide range of services ranging from routine wellness care to surgeries including orthopedic and soft tissue procedures. 

Mixed Animal Practice

In-Clinic 

Student will shadow/assist with Small animal vaccine appointments, Small animal sick appointments, small animal surgery (Routine Ovariohysterectomy, neuter, mass removal

Ambulatory: 

Equine Vaccine appointments / Dental Floats / Sick appointments 

Cattle - Dairy / Farmstead / Minimal Beef exposure - Rectal palpation, Vaccines, Sick cow appointments -

Small ruminant Sick 

Student will be visiting a progressive veterinary clinic with direct supervision of Michelle Bryan DVM or Melissa Long DVM. Student will be able to perform soft tissue surgeries, dental prophylaxis and extractions, local blocks and mass removals. Student will also see exam room and drop off appointments (with a DVM) take history perform physical exam, perform diagnostics (including ultrasound) and create a treatment plan under direct supervision. Our facility offers canine rehabilitation and therapy services including cold laser, land exercises and underwater treadmill. We see cats, dogs, and pocket pets with fur. 

Mentorship opportunities and veterinary skills we are excited to share: Our practice was started by a husband and wife with the goal of creating a family-like culture with our employees. We provide general practice, urgent / ER care, and advanced surgery by Dr. Bierens. Our goal is to expose our young doctors to cases and procedures so they can continue to grow. If there I a surgical procedure you want to learn, we will teach you. We start our new doctors by doing surgery on pets that come from the local SPCALA that we have a contract with. Our goal is to have our doctors become comfortable performing routine surgeries and then expand their comfort zone doing more complicated cases. We have access to internal medicine specialists that come to our location for ultrasounds/echo. We are excited to meet new doctors that want to learn and continue to grow with us! 

What a day in the hospital will look like for students: Our hospitals rotate a schedule where they each have a procedure day. Meaning, they are blocked off from 8am to 2pm procedures. The other doctor on that day sees appointments. We work as a team, so we do adapt based on caseload. Our goal is to provide clients the best medicine while providing convenient services. As a doctor, we want doctors to only handle doctor duties, We use our techs to help our associates get through the day. We have a very experienced support staff.

We are a GP mixed practice that services dogs, cats, horses, cattle, small ruminants, a few back yard pig operations and pet pigs, occasional pocket pets, and a few chickens.  We have two small animal offices staffed by 1 to 3 DVMs each week day with support staff including licensed technicians, vet tech assistants, and CSRs.  We do routine preventative health care, urgent care sick appointments, and occasional emergencies along with GP level surgeries including spay, neuter, mass removals, GI foreign body surgery, preventative gastropexies, cystotomies.  

 Our ambulatory service is staffed by 1 to 3 DVMs each day with 1 to 2 assistants and a CSR.  We do cover emergencies after hours and weekends with the ambulatory service.  We do routine herd health mostly in dairies. With horses we do routine preventative health care and basic dental floats, and emergencies.   We take care of routine preventative health in pet goats.  We do have a few show and breeding and solar grazing herds. 

Davis Veterinary Services LLC performs veterinary care for feline, canine, equine, bovine, caprine, porcine, and camelid species. Student performs communication with clients about the well-being of their pets and livestock for appointments and ambulatory farm calls. The student is afforded one on one discussion about veterinary medicine and animal cases with the veterinarian daily. Physical exams are performed by the student on all species seen while also getting immersive hands-on opportunities such as phlebotomy, injections, animal handling, vaccine protocols, dehorning, and more.