Offsite Electives

The Calgary Zoo Animal Health Centre offers externships for veterinary students in their final year of study. Externships are a minimum of three weeks in length and are generally four week blocks of time.  Successful applicants will gain experience in zoological medicine, surgery, nutrition, preventive medicine, and pathology in a wide variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and inverts in a collection of approximately 1,100
animals representing over 140 species.  Students also will have the opportunity to work with the zookeepers one morning per week to gain exposure to the high level of husbandry, nutrition, and training and enrichment that goes on in an accredited zoological facility.   The externship is an unpaid position and extern students must provide their own transportation and other living expenses while in Calgary.

Applications are accepted on a year-round basis, but due to the volume of applications, most applicants need to apply at least one year in advance of the expected externship date.  Blocks of time are only available from September 1st to November 30th and from January 1st until April 30th annually.
 

We offer LA, SA, and Mixed animal externships.  This is a LA externship.  Student will be working with doctors with cattle (dairy & beef), horses, small ruminants, some camelids.  Student will be assisting the veterinarian and/ or technician with medical and surgical appointmemnts with these species.  We ask all students to work with all the LA species.  We will allow some focus if a specific area is the goal of the externship.  We allow students to plan a project while on the externship.  Projects must be approved before the externship is begun by KVH.

Integrative hospital/practice which provides learning opportunities in conventional medicine, surgery, imaging, including CT, ultrasound, radiography, dentistry and preventive medicine. Integration of alternative modalities for dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, pocket pets, some reptiles and chickens. Acupuncture, animal  chiropractic, massage, IASTM, PT and underwater treadmill, laser, photonic treatments, sanawave, nanovitalight needleless acupuncture, NAET, Homeopathy, Stem Cell/PRP, alternative and integrative oncology, nutrition,  Chinese herbology, Ozone therapy, Prolotherapy,  Bach Flowers and more. We have 5 DVMs with training in alternative medicine.

General small animal practice seeing dogs, cats, and the occasional small mammal.  Soft tissue surgery, dentistry, and general medicine are performed. 

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.