Offsite Electives

Online format of their standard anatomic pathology rotation due to the pandemic

Student will shadow Veterinarian owner who is an Ohio State Garduate of 43 years experience in practice and 35 years experince in Holistic medicine. Student will work up cases and draw blood and assist in surgery and learn acupuncture and herbs and nutraceuticals used in Holistic medicine. Student will perform dentistries. Student will learn in house lab and Xray.

Mainly small animal GP along with more advance emergency surgeries (FB, HBC etc) as well as orthopedics.

This is a self-designed experience in Honey Bee Management and Medicine. Honey bees are classified as a food producing animal by the FDA and must receive antibiotics via a veterinarian. Experiences will include performing common diagnostic tests of Honey Bee hives (e.g. looking for parasites), inspecting colonies, lessons in queen rearing, Honey Bee conservation education, shadowing the State Apiarist on hive inspections, and shadowing a commercial honey bee operation. These will take place at a total of four sites: The Honey Bee Laboratory at Waterman Farms, Johnson Lab at OSU Wooster, traveling with the State Apiarist to a neighboring county hive inspection, and Honeyrun Farm. Contact between all of these locations has been coordinated by Reed Johnson, Associate Professors of Entomology at OSU Wooster.

Students will participate in pregnancy palpation each morning, as well take part in sick animal farm calls as well.  Students will gain experience with milking system evaluation and milk quality consultation, nutritional services and ration balancing, milk culture lab and SCC machine, and dairy facility design. Students will also gain experience doing small animal appointments and small animal surgery each day.

Student will see a variety of large animals from beef and dairy cattle, pigs, small ruminants, camelids, and cervids

Student will experience private practice work flow and appointment structure for wellness and illness appointments.  During these appointments the student will be exposed to vaccination protocols, and diagnostic screening testing including HW and tick borne illness screening, intestinal parasite screening, wellness blood panels as well as illness work ups, including inhouse and reference laboratory diagnostics, DR radiology, ultrsonograph, etc.  The student will also have exposure to dentistry with digital dental radiography, elective and non elective surgeries, anesthesia protocols, hopsitalization and treatment for a wide variety of illnesses.  

The student will place IV catheters, draw blood, intubate (where appropriate), administer oral/IM/SC medications, perform physical exams, interpret bloodwork and radiographs, calculate fluid rates and drug dosages, observe surgeries, and create treatment plans for outpatients and inpatients. 

The externship will consist of both food animal and small animal medicine and surgery.  The practice focuses on herd health procedures such as vaccination program design and implementation, pregancy diagnosis and ultrasound.  The small animal consists of both appointments and surgeries.  We work closely with 3 different county humane societies to provide supervised surgery experiences for the extern.

• Freshman and sophomore veterinary students
• 2-month duration at 40-50 hours a week
• Small and/or mixed animal experience
  • General surgery, dentals and advanced surgery if cases permit
  • Small animal internal medicine and orthopedic cases
  • Small animal digital radiography and ultrasonography
  • Livestock and equine ambulatory as cases permit
• Small case study or project of student’s interest
• Mentorship/real life job training
• Great practice culture
• Housing can be arranged if necessary
• $3,500 paid divided into once weekly installments (get paid for invaluable on job training!)

This internship is designed to increase a student’s exposure to small and/or mixed animal practice. It is meant to be a structured intense shadowing experience, all while, sharpening ones technical and clinical skills. Get real private practice experience, as well as taking on a retro-active mini research product of your interest. Work side by side with future colleagues and business owners. This is a great opportunity to earn some pay for time that may typically be volunteered.