Offsite Electives

Miamitown Equine is seeking externship students who are also interested in a job opportunity with our practice.  This externship is a great way to get to know the practice and see if you would be a good fit. We are a growing 1.5 doctor large animal practice located in the greater Cincinnati area. Our practice is 95% equine and 5% small ruminant, cattle, and camelid. We are primarily ambulatory, but based out of our partnered small animal practice. We have a wellness-based approach to equine medicine and see patients that range from foals to geriatrics, show horses to backyard pets. We strive to practice high quality medicine with digital radiography, ultrasound and power dentistry. 

Mentoring is a cornerstone, with frequent interaction and discussion over cases. One doctor at our practice has been a horse doctor for 40 years- if you have a question about it, he’s probably seen it! The other doctor is a more recent graduate who still remembers exactly what it was like to transition from school into practice and and can help with any issues along the way. 

We are in a great location near Cincinnati, Ohio with a great food scene and many craft breweries.  We believe that you can be a horse doctor and also have a good work-life balance!

If you are interested in this position, please send a resume to miamitownequine@gmail.com

Participate and shadow in a 24 hour seven day a week emergency and general practice practice facility. The extern will also take place in our zoo med program with the local zoo as well as wildlife center.

VetnCare provides dynamic and engaging learning opportunities at our animal hospitals located in Northern California.

Preventative care corporate small animal practice. 

Growing multi-doctor AAHA practice in small lake town in central Ohio. Practice is 25 minutes from Columbus. Owner and all current veterinary staff are OSU CVM alumni - Go Bucks! New facility with a support staff of 16 RVTs and knowledgeable receptionist team. Encouraging team approach to work and a supportive mentoring environment. We offer full service care for dogs, cats, and pocket pets, resulting in interesting work and client loyalty. Practice is well equipped with CT imaging, digital radiography, in house blood machines, ultrasound etc. Hands on approach to externships. Varied case load, never a boring day. Level of mentoring and support tailored to student needs. 

Observational experience in a teritary small animal referral surgical service

To provide additional in-depth training in feline-only medicine, including fear-free handling, common medical and surgical conditions, performing thorough physical exams, common dental issues, and the critical ways in which cats' medical needs are different from dogs'.  Conditions that will be explored in-depth include (but not limited to) chronic intestinal disease, chronic kidney disease, dentistry, anesthesia (including how to modify anesthetic and surgical procedures in cats with co-morbidities), immunology, diagnosing and treating inappropriate elimination and FIC, and common respiratory and ocular conditions. 
 

Our practice is AAHA-accredited and AAFP Feline friendly. Dr Pizzuli is board certified in Feline Practice and Veterinary Preventive Medicine. 

We are a three doctor mixed animal practice where students can shadow and assist in appointments, surgeries and farm calls.

GENERAL SMALL ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY. SHELTER MEDICINE WITH RETIRED RACING GREYOUNDS AND OTHER SIGHTHOUNDS

Do you care where the veterinary profession is going?  Do you read about the effects of changing laws, health insurance reforms and pharmaceuticals on human medicine and how they impact veterinary medicine?  Do you plan to own your veterinary practice and navigate the world of human resources on your own?  Do you plan to work in a veterinary practice?  Do you want to gain concrete experience in what makes a successful veterinary practice?  If so, we invite you to apply for an externship with Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc.

            The externship is a 3-4-week hands-on opportunity for 3rd and 4th year veterinary students to work with Dr. Charlotte Lacroix on issues affecting veterinary medicine, including analysis of emerging business and legal issues, employer/employee contract negotiations, the buying and selling of veterinary practices, and the relationship between practice owners.  Whether you are considering attending law or business school in the future, hope to learn more about running a successful practice or simply want to learn more about the challenges confronting the veterinary profession, your externship will broaden your view of veterinary medicine, the business, commercial, legal and ethical concerns it must address, and teach you about the practical “business” of being a veterinarian.

During your externship, you will participate in conferences with clients and learn first-hand the concerns faced by practice owners and their employees. You will analyze employment agreements and learn what makes a fair deal as well as what you, as a prospective employer or employee, will want to consider in your own contracts. Listening to clients and assisting with the drafting of new agreements, settlements, and legal communications, will offer you practical insight into how contract failures and disputes occur and how to resolve them. You may participate in practice purchase and sale negotiations, learning how practice sales are financed and conducted--it’s a lot more than just signing on a dotted line--and how to structure relationships among owners in practice buy-ins. You will gain valuable concrete experience as to what makes a successful veterinary practice and how to improve it, whether by increasing earnings, revamping compensation and/or profits, improving employee’ morale, leveraging staff, or achieving a higher quality of medicine. You will research emerging legal and ethical issues, evaluate how they may impact veterinarians and how you can influence the future of veterinary medicine.

Besides working closely with Dr. Lacroix, you will research and write about a topic that interests you (recent projects have included:  preparing for natural disaster, vaccine liability, electronic medical records, business ethics and profit-making, the emergence of holistic veterinary medicine, competing with internet pharmacies and pet guardianship vs. pet ownership).  Depending on the length of your externship, you may write an article suitable for publication in a veterinary journal and develop a Power Point presentation.

As a point of interest and since we are so close to New York City, many of our externs have enjoyed occasional weekends exploring the sites. 

Veterinary Business Advisors, Inc. is committed to teaching and strives to involve students and promote their participation in an interesting, diverse, and eye-opening practical learning opportunity.  In addition to receiving unique exposure to the business and legal aspects of the veterinary profession, you will be provided with free room, board and parking and depending on your school, you may also receive credits for the externship.

            Should you wish to apply for a position within our externship, please complete the application which can be found online by visiting the “About Us” page on our website at www.veterinarybusinessadvisors.com.