Offsite Electives

West Plains Veterinary Hospital works primarily with livestock and stock show animals with a strong focus in swine. Experience with small animal medicine and surgeries is available on a smaller scale.

Double J Animal Hospital in Hobbs, New Mexico, is a thriving two-doctor, Progressive Practice providing care for dogs, cats, and some large animals. Our state of the art facility is only ten years old.  We received the distinction of being AAHA Accredited in 2018.  

Double J Animal Hospital is a fun, hard-working and fast-paced hospital.  We love busy days and thrive to help our patients live a better life.    We love them all, big and small!

Small animal general practice

Get externship credit in Costa Rica! Wild Sun Rescue is now taking applications for 2020.

Our 4-week vet student externship focuses on the veterinarian’s role in conservation medicine.  Follow our vets as they treat injured wildlife and give support to 2 very different yet interrelated conservation initiatives.  You will participate and learn from a wildlife rescue center and a Scarlet Macaw reintroduction program on the same site.  Our goal is to inspire you to be a voice for conservation and to show you how, as a future veterinarian, you can make a difference in saving wildlife and their habitats in all corners of the world.

Wild Sun Rescue Center works closely with howler monkeys and capuchins, but often sees anteaters, parrots, iguanas, coatis, pacas, kinkajous, woolly opossums and more.

Learn more at www.WildSunRescue.org/vet-externship-prevet-internship

Gigi’s is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2018 dedicated to improving the lives of shelter dogs. Gigi’s leads a collaborative resource network within the dog sheltering community to improve the health and well-being of shelter dogs and increase efficiencies within the network – all to help more dogs and more organizations in more communities.

Fourth-year veterinary students will spend two weeks at Gigi’s campus in Central, OH and traveling to Shelter Partners in Southern Ohio learning about shelter medicine and live animal transportation.  Longer rotations may be approved on a case to case basis. During this time, they will be supervised by Gigi's veterinarians and will be working alongside all of Gigi's team members to learn all facets of our organization. Ideally, students should have their Small Animal Surgery rotation before coming to Gigi’s. 
 

The student will be exposed to private small animal medicine along with some exotics and pocket pets including a few skunks and pigs. We are a fast paced appointment based cozy clinic utilizing all staff to their fullest capabilities. We also take client drop offs and handle ctitical emergencies if  one happens to walk in. We run 20- 30 minute appts and have surgery on Mondays and Tuesdays. We also practice fear free. 

People, Pets and Vets offers elective internship and externship experiences at our 30+ veterinary hospitals.  If you are looking for an opportunity to experience the Pacific Northwest, we offer free lodging for any externs traveling to our Olympia, WA based hospitals.  We want Externs to have an excellent experience in clinic and experience the community they are working in.

Very busy High-quality small animal private practice.

• MedVet veterinary student externships are designed for fourth-year veterinary students seeking additional training and experience at a small animal emergency and specialty referral practice.
• The MedVet specialty and emergency externship program provides a structured clinical experience supervised by experienced emergency doctors and board-certified specialists in a variety of specialties. Depending on your externship location, experiences may include anesthesia & analgesia, avian & exotics, cardiology, critical care, dentistry & oral surgery, dermatology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, integrative medicine, neurology & neurosurgery, medical oncology, ophthalmology, radiation oncology, radiology, rehabilitation, and/or surgery.
• As a MedVet extern, you will be part of a well-designed training program that provides you with the experience to complete your veterinary education. Externs have many opportunities for participation in journal clubs, daily clinical rounds, formal rounds, assist with the management of emergency cases, medical and surgical cases, and interact with many MedVet interns, residents, specialists, and technicians.
• The duration of MedVet externships vary but are most often two weeks. Students are responsible for their own accommodations. Schedules can often be flexible as most MedVet locations are open 24/7.

The Surgery Elective experience here at Veterinary Specialty Services includes one on one time with each of our Board Certified Surgeons and our technnical staff.  The supervision of each case, usually from start to finish, including recieving, admitting, performing surgery, record management, patient care and discharging the patients. We also have the addition of Emergency/Critical Care Services, which offers the element of triage to the daily surgery schedule as well.