Offsite Electives

Sunny Ridge Veterinary Services is a rural mixed animal practice that provides veterinary care for the tri state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. We have a large demographic for equine reproduction, lameness evaluations and dentistry due to our close proximity to Mountaineer racetrack. Our small animal aspect is very busy and our typical work week includes two routine surgery days. We see occasional exotics and perform surgery on pot belly pigs and bunnies routinely. 

We provide state of the art medical care to canines, felines and pocket pets.  We are equipped to perform surgery, labwork and advanced diagnostics which include digital radiographs, dental radiographs and ultrasound. All radiographs are sent telemedicine which are read by a board-certified Veterinary Radiologist to assure accuracy in our diagnosis.  We are one of the first hospitals in the region to utilize anesthetic monitoring for our surgical patients and we are also American Animal Hospital accredited.

To immerse the student in day to day application of the skill sets learned in school and how to apply them with the patient / client restictions usually not encounteed in tertiary practice / clinical environments. 

The student will be shadowing the doctors on wellness and sick patient appointments, go through case work up from beginning to end as well as treatments options and how to work with clients of various financial backgrounds and need. We will also set up surgical opportunities for spay, neuter and dentals with our rescues. We will have case rounds to help students better under stand cases seen in the hospital to reiterate the experience gained from this externship. 

Hilliard Veternary Hospital is a two doctor private small animal practice. We strive to provide  gold standard wellness care; including vaccinations, spays and neuters, dentals, and geriatric care. 

Shadow doctors during apponitments and surgery for dog/cat practice 

In accordance with the State Practice Act, students will be provided the opportunity to:

• • Gain experience in general pet medicine in a bond-centered practice.
• • Understand Banfield’s best practice standards, code of conduct and ethics.
• • Understand the concepts of quality medicine and preventive care.
• • Understand how both high quality and high case load can complement each other.
• • Learn to perform a physical exam and to record a thorough medical history.
• • Improve technical skills such as: drawing blood,  placing catheters,  giving injections, starting fluids,  assisting with anesthesia and surgeries under the mentor doctor’s       direct supervision.
• • Collect and interpret laboratory specimens.
• • Learn how to order the appropriate diagnostic tests.
• • Learn to establish effective therapeutic plans.
• • Learn how to properly restrain dogs, cats and exotic pets for different medical procedures.
• • Learn how to efficiently and effectively use hospital equipment.
• • Learn how to charge appropriately for services provided and why this is important.
• • Learn and practice effective client and team communication skills.
• • Learn to work effectively with hospital associates and others critical to your success.

Student will be working with a full time ER veterinarian that also provides relief services and also works with a feline non-profit organization. When not working at the ER(small animal only) the student will have the ability to work in multiple private practice settings(small animal day practice, avian and exotic practice, and house calls(routine care and end-of-life care). In the emergency setting the clinic is located in a multi-specialty clinic and the emergency practice refers to and works with the following practices; internal medicine, oncology, surgery, neurology, and physical therapy.

BluePearl Veterinary Partners provides intership and externship programs available to veterinary school graduates or veterinary students. Our goal is to give you a diverse, high quality clinical experinence with a supportive hospital culture. Externships include rotations through hospital services and allow you to observe out specialists, senior emergency clinicians, residents and interns in action. You can also participate in lectures, journal clubs and rounds where applicable. 

We are a 4 veterinarian mixed practice providing services in medicine and surgery.  We also provide reproductive services for the canine, bovine, and equine including  AI, freezing and storing canine and bovine semen, shipping fresh semen from the stud, and bovine embryo transfer.