Offsite Electives

We are a small animal clinic that also specializes in exotics, as well.  We have 5 doctors that work at our facility.  We used Fear Free concepts when we designed our new facility to help create a less stressful experience for our patients.  Students will be able to experience a large variety of cases as well as surgeries.  The emphasis at our clinic is placed on client communication and partnering with our clients on care for their pets.  We focus on client education and working with them on helping to insure their pets receive quality care.  Our surgeries range from your typical procedures (growth removals, OVHs, neuters) to more complex procedures including some orthopedics.  Our doctors are supportive and work together to provide continuity of care between patients.  Our environment focuses on teamwork and working together. Students would have many opportunities to receive guidance and learn on a wide variety of topics of small animal veterinary clinic.   While we see exotics, it is not mandatory that a student participate in these cases; however, if there is an interest they are more than welcome to be a part of these cases. We do see emergencies during our normal business hours; however, they are referred out to emergency referral centers outside of our normal hours.  

We are Veterinary Emergency Group, an organization founded on a single mission: helping people and their pets when they need it most. VEG's rapidly growing group of hospitals has revolutionized pet emergency and urgent care with a client-centered approach, rapid response times, and a highly focused-emergency-only staff. With multiple locations, we offer the flexibility, mentorship, and diverse learning experience you want. Our industry-leading compensation, unlimited CE, and growth opportunities are just part of what makes VEG the place for emergency doctors to work.

VEG's Externship Program allows students to gain hands-on experience in emergency medicine while working right alongside our skilled emergency doctors. Students will focus on learning how to effectively communicate with clients, diagnose a variety of emergency conditions, develop emergency treatment plans and collaborate with support staff in a fast-paced environment.  

Our Externship Advantage: 

• Flexibility: Choose the length of your externship, from a couple of days up to three weeks
• Location: With a rapidly growing group of practices we have multiple locations to choose from (please check our website for an updated list of locations)
• Mentorship: You will be partnered with a senior ER doctor for the duration of your externship 
• Housing: Housing and accommodation assistance programs are available as needed 
• Focus: As a group of exclusively emergency practices, you will be fully immersed in what emergency medicine truly entails 

How to Apply:

To begin the application process, send your resume and proposed dates to our Campus Recruiter, Abby Papakonstantis at abby@veg.vet

We have 3 doctors who see mainly small animal patients, pet pigs, and poultry in the clinic and a large animal doctor seeing equine, bovine, caprine, camelid and ovine patients mostly ambulatory with some in-house appts for all but cattle. We see general medical and surgical cases but also refer to small animal and equine specialists. We are 45 minutes from the University of Minnesota. Large animal caseload is approx. 50% equine,30% bovine, 10% and growing caprine, 10% camelid and occasional ovine. 

The Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) Comparative Medicine Unit provides clinical veterinaary care to the laboratory animals used for research, teaching, and testing for 5 state universities in North East Ohio including NEOMED, Kent State University, University of Akron, Youngstown State University, and Cleveland State University.  The participating universities utilize a wide variety of different species including fish (multiple species), amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders), reptiles (snakes and lizards), birds, laboratory rodents, rabbits, sheep, swine, dogs, and non-human primates.  The student will have an opportunity to experince the veterinary care and husbandry activities of all of the forementioned species.  They will also have an opportunity to work with muliple IACUCs and their oversight of the research programs. 

The student will spend time on calls with staff veterinarians.  There will be a fair amount of reproductive work as well as various other bovine tasks including record nalysis usind DC305.  Some milk quality work as well as office laborartory work depending on scheduling and time of year.

The extern will shadow the DVMs and learn in exam rooms, assist in surgery and dentsitsy and lean basic skills. 

Interactive case management with mutiple experienced veterinarians acting as mentors.  

Externs will participate in daily clinical duties alongside laboratory animal residents and faculty veterinarians, including handling, physical exams, and common diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in a variety of laboratory animal species. The extern will also participate in the following activities:

DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY: Externs will gain hands-on experience in necropsy and will be exposed to in-house diagnostic methodologies including serology and PCR.

PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND RODENT COLONY MANAGEMENT: Externs will spend time within the unit managing health surveillance of the rodent colonies (sentinel program, quarantine, outbreak management, etc.) and providing breeding colony management services for investigators.

INSTITUTIONAL ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE: As scheduling permits, externs will attend monthly IACUC meetings and resident training sessions that cover federal regulations and guidelines in the use of laboratory animals and provide training in protocol review. Opportunities may also be available to attend protocol start-up meetings and observe post-approval monitoring activities.

DIDACTIC TRAINING SESSIONS:

1. Resident seminars covering information essential for the practice of laboratory animal medicine are held twice weekly during the academic year and are presented by Comparative Medicine faculty and residents.
2. Weekly slide sessions are given by ACLAM diplomates for the purposes of ACLAM board examination preparation. The slide sessions, presented in a question-answer format, utilize material from mock exams and various slide sets.

JOURNAL CLUB: The extern will attend the bi-weekly journal club covering relevant laboratory animal journals, and may be expected to review and present an assigned article. Guidance on article review will be provided by the faculty veterinarians.

We are a busy general practice that provides small animal and exotic pet care.  We are open to see patients from 7AM to 5 PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,  7 AM to 6 PM Tuesday and Thursday, and 7 AM to noon on Saturdays.  There are no after hours emergencies. 

AAHA accreditited, small animal, day time medical and general surgical facility. We have scheduled appointment hours Monday through Saturday and perform scheduled surgical procedures including medical dentals with digital oral radiography 2 days a week.

We schedule wellness and illness appointms dailty and have open time for work in cases and drop off medical assessments. Our clients are present for all examinations and encourage bonding with our cleitns and community. We offer a full array ofvaccination and health care assessments for client and paitent lifestyle needs.

Additional details are located at https://buckeyevetclinic.com