Offsite Electives

The Animal Eye Institute provides a two or three week rotation of veterinary ophthalmology. Extern will be present for all surgeries and clinical appointments throughout the day. Extern will have exposure to schirmer tear testing, tonometry, fluorescein staining, direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy. Extern will be exposed to various diseases and their respective treatment and prognosis. 

This will be a peak into the workings of a busy private corporate owned practice - we see a variety of animals including exotics and we perform a number of surgeries.

We are an AAHA small animal hospital focusing on cats and dogs. The students' experience will include contact with the public through office calls/appointments and the art of communication to clients. They will have the opportunity to communicate to clients reporting (only) normal laboratory results. Outside of the exam room, students will be questioned regarding their ideas on individual medical cases. And they will be exposed to abnormal lab results and given a chance to give their list of differentials. Students will have exposure to and active involvement with a variety of surgeries, digital radiology, dental prophies and oral surgery. And they will be guided through anesthetic protocols and anesthetic monitoring. We want any student's experience to be a combination of hands-on techniques as well as a primary focus on SOAP based thinking.

Equine only practice

Student will be allowed to participate in routine well pet exam appointments, urgent care\emergency appointments, physical exams, scrub in on surgeries and dental procedures. If comfortable, student will be allowed to do spay\neuters on the local shelter dogs\cats.

Our hospital is a full service mixed animal hospital. We perform a variety of surgeries and procedures for all animals. We also offer general practice services. 

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The National Aviary’s Teaching Hospital internship program provides a unique educational experience for veterinary students to learn avian medicine in a zoo setting. The curriculum has 3 components: academic lessons in avian medicine, teaching hands-on skills with patient care, and working directly with the veterinary team in medical procedures. The goals of the internship are to teach students knowledge about species variations and specialized skills necessary to practice avian medicine.

Exclusively canines and felines.  The medicine we practice is very thorough, at times calling on an Internal Medicine specialist for ultrasound and other consultation, or an orthopedic surgeon.  Our strengths are in our dedication to clients by handling routine care, along with grooming and boarding, yet being on call for them 24/7/365.  Our practice owner practiced exclusively emergency medicine, and emergency surgeries for the first 8 years of his career, and one of our associates has a lot to offer with her dental expertise and staying current with medicine.  In addition to the traditional business model of practicing high quality medicine (high quality medicine yields high quality profits), we have the only fully comprehensive health plan that we are aware of in the whole country. This plan covers emergencies and also covers the preventative medicine for a flat monthly rate, and is very popular.  We would love to have an enthusiastic student become exposed to our family environment, evolving medicine, and perhaps see a different and very effective way to enable the majority of clients to provide top of the line care to their pets.  

Clinical experience with veterinarians for general practice. Observation and assistance in surgery. Working emergency shifts and performing treatments of ICU patients. Assist in radiology and dentistry procedures.