Offsite Electives

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. 

We perform orthopedics and general procedures as well. Please see our website for a complete list. uavh@uavethsopital.com

Student will be exposed to General Small Animal Practice. We are appointment based with emergencies throughout the day. We are a very busy practice that handles a wide variety of case work. We perform scheduled surgeries three days a week and will do occasional emergency surgeries as the need presents. We have a large and knowledgeable help staff and four doctors - two full time and two part time.  We are not a 24 hour clinic and do not have over night staff, although some after hour emergencies are seen at doctor discretion.

Full service small animal, exotic and reptile medicine and surgery including laser surgery.  We don't need to refer too many cases as we also have a board certified surgeon perform most specialty procedures including TPLO's.

Small animal general practive

IndyVet is a progressive specialty and emergency hospital that embraces a culture of mutual respect and teamwork while providing outstanding patient care and customer service.  At IndyVet we put patient care first and believe in doing so through integrated clinical practice.   Currently, we have specialists in surgery, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.  We will be adding a criticalist in October of 2020. We offer an externship program for veterinary students enrolled in their third or fourth years of veterinary school for rotations of one to six weeks in length to fulfill private practice or elective curriculum requirements.

We are committed to the responsibilities of training new veterinarians in the field of small animal practice and exposing them to as much clinical experience as possible. We round daily with all services to provide the most complete patient assessment and positive learning environment for the externs. Externs work closely with specialists and experienced emergency clinicians diagnosing and treating complex cases. Externs typically have extensive one-on-one time with the specialist. In addition to hands on learning, externs are involved in weekly didactic lectures, journal club and Morbidity & Mortality rounds that is a part of our rotating internship program to provide additional learning opportunities. We also give monthly CE lectures to regional veterinarians and technicians, and externs are encouraged to attend. 

 

The student will have the opportunity to spend 40 hours or more with a veterinaria in an ER situation.  Whatever shifts they decide to work we will assign them to a DVM that they can go into exam rooms, discuss differentials, come up with treatment plans, assist in surgery,evaluate diagnostics and be as involved as they would like to be.