Offsite Electives

We are a well established, independently owned hospital located in southeast Ohio.   We are a general practice that sees dogs, cats, and small mammals (rabbits, rodents, ferrets, guinea pigs) for routine preventative care, urgent care and some emergencies.  We perform surgery 3 days a week and as needed on emergency basis. Wellness care is emphasized and we take the time to try to educate our clients.  The student will spend time with wellness visits, sick visits, urgent visits and some emergencies.  

We see patients 6 days a week. Monday - Friday 8am-5pm and Saturday 9am-1pm.  Surgery is on Monday, Wednesday & Friday.  Typically there are 2 doctors on at most times.

At this location we offer a diverse caseload in the emergent setting including surgical cases, endoscopy, oxygen dependent patients, critical hospitalization cases. 

Pending student's capability and comfort, the extern student can work closely with clinicians to work through cases on individual cases with clinician guidance. Case load has a dynamic range due to the nature of emergency medicine. Pending case load, the extern can scrub into surgeries with surpervising clinician. 

Cedar Hill Animal Clinic is a privately owned, full service small animal veterinary practice serving Westerville and New Albany, OH and surrounding areas since 2018. Our highly skilled and experienced veterinarians and support staff provide care for dogs, cats, small mammals, as well as other exotics including birds, rabbits, reptiles, amphibians, and backyard poultry.

1. Learn how to work up the pruritic dog (and cat, if these cases are available)
2. Learn how to manage an otitis externa case in a dog
3. Learn how to manage a superficial pyoderma vs deep pyoderma
4. Learn how to perform a skin/ear cytology and skin scrape
5. Learn how to stain a skin and ear cytology
6. Learn the difference between cocci, rods and yeast on cytology
7. Learn how an atopic dog is managed
8. Learn how an atopic cat is managed
9. Learn how to conduct a good diet trial to rule out food allergy
10. Learn how to do a skin biopsy (if cases are available)

Student will spend time shadowing with our Dermatologist.  Student will experience client interactions as well as procedures and techniques that we perferm in Dermatology daily.  Our veterinarians will spend time educating student on the many diseases that impact these patients.  Student will be exposed to a wide variety of potential treatments including biopsy procedures, intradermal skin testing, video otoscopy, cryosurgery, laser surgery, and phovia treatments.

Specialties provided:

• Internal medicine
• Cardiology
• Oncology (including Radiation Oncology)
• Emergency Critical Care
• Coming soon (2025): Surgery, Neurology, a 24hr ER

We will also be hosting interns starting (2025).

Students are a able to shadow specialist throughout their day both in and outside of rooms. They have access to our computer system and are encouraged to look at the cases they will be seeing prior to each day so that they can formulate plans with the specialist.  

This elective will give the extern experience in a busy small animal practice. There will be exposure to a broad range of cases including diagnosis and management of challenging internal medicine cases, emergency cases, dermatology, and wellness / preventative medicine.  The extent will have the opportunity to observe soft tissue surgeries, orthopedic surgeries and dental  procedures.  The extern will also have the opportunity to gain experience with rehabilitation and PT.   This practice also incorporates some alternative medicine, to include regenerative therapies (ccrp and stem cell therapy) on select cases.  

Externs will shadow and observe our ER doctors, help out doctors & staff, scrub into surgery, assist with medical records, and communicate with clients.

Externs may see bite wounds, choking or respiratory distress, toxin ingestion, shock, DKA, heat stroke, reproductive emergencies, seizures, pancreatitis, and hemoabdomen.

Working 4 doctors at South Bay with small animals practitioners in room and in the surgery suites. 

The Wildlife Center of Virginia offers an externship designed to provide students with practical experience in many aspects of wild animal handling, medical management, and husbandry. 

The Wildlife Center is a non-profit conservation organization with a professionally staffed, fully equipped, 5,700 square foot hospital.  WCV is presented with approximately 4,500 patients annually representing over 250 different species. Sixty-five percent of the patients are birds and approximately half of these are raptors. 

Throughout the three-to-twelve week externship, externs will receive instruction and hands-on experience in anatomy, physical restraint, anesthesia, radiography, laboratory analysis, emergency triage, therapeutics, nutrition, wound management, surgery, and necropsy procedures.  This is a challenging program and we expect hard work and dedication from our students. In return, the Center promises to introduce externs to many aspects of clinical wildlife and conservation medicine in a friendly and professional teaching environment. 

The veterinary extern must be a fourth/fifth year student registered in a veterinary medicine degree program and is expected to achieve the following goals:

• Be able to identify the common wildlife species of Virginia and have some understanding of their natural history.
• Know the techniques used to restrain wild animals, and perform physical restraint of wild reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Perform physical examinations, basic clinical techniques (such as venipuncture), and treatment of wild reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Be able to perform and interpret basic diagnostic procedures such as hematology and radiography of reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Perform both inhalation and, if appropriate, injectable anesthesia on wild reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Perform surgical procedures such as wound repair on appropriate cases.
• Know the humane methods of euthanasia used in wildlife species.
• Perform gross necropsies on wild reptiles, birds, and mammals.
• Have a basic knowledge of the important diseases of North American wildlife, especially wildlife zoonoses.
• Understand the medical and ethical issues regarding the treatment, rehabilitation, and conservation of wildlife.
• Understand the concept of conservation medicine, and the role the Wildlife Center can play in wildlife disease monitoring, ecosystem health, conservation, and public education.