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| Canine Companions for Independence, CA Description of Elective Experience: Students performing elective rotations with Canine Companions for Independence will have the opportunity to assist in a broad numbers of tasks, including: phycial exams, development of treatment plans, administering medical care, imaging studies, dentistry and surgery. In addition, they will have the opportunity to learn about reproduction, including timing of estrous cycles, facilitating dog breedings, semen evaluation and storage, pregnancy detection and assistance with whelping and neonatal puppy care. Proximity: |
| Watertown Animal Hospital, NY Description of Elective Experience: The student would spend part of the time riding with a large animal veterinarian and part of the time in the small animal hospital. Students would be exposed to dairy production medicine on small (<50 cow) Amish diaries and organic diaries to large (>1500 cow) family run dairies. Clients also include pleasure horses, families, goats and few swine. The small animal hospital caters to dogs and cats. Students would be exposed to dental radiology, digital radiology, and general small animal practice as well as surgery. Surgeries range from spats and Reuters to amputation, enucleation, and abdominal exploration. Proximity: |
| Brisbane Veterinary Specialist Centre, AUS Description of Elective Experience: BVSC is a busy referral private practice and offers clinical exposure to the diagnosis and treatment of surgical and medical diseases in the small animal patient. We have a strong focus in oncology with a specialist surgical oncologist and specialist radiation oncologist. During this rotation, the student will practice history taking, physical and physical examinations, and establish competence in the care, diagnosis and treatment of small animal diseases. Students will have hands-on experience while assisting in surgery and during some medical procedures. Specialities: Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Internal Medicine, Radiation Therapy, Ophtalmology, Dentistry. Proximity: |
| VCA North Portland Veterinary Hospital, OR Description of Elective Experience: General Practice DVM seeing appointments 3 days, with a Surgery DVM 5 days, with an Urgent Care DVM seeing appointments 2 days. Proximity: |
| National Institutes of Health - Division of Veterinary Resources, MD Description of Elective Experience: Student will participate in gross necropsy and histopathology of laboratory animals submitted to the Pathology Service, Division of Veterinary Resources under the direct supervision of board certified staff veterinary pathologists. Student will participate in weekly histopathology slide conferences. Proximity: |
| VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, CA Description of Elective Experience: The VCA WLA Rotating Externship is set up so that you will rotate through multiple different services, attend patient rounds, attend didactic rounds, and interact with current house officers and senior clinicians. The services available for direct rotations include: Emergency, Critical Care, Neurology, Oncology, ZooMed, Dentistry, Surgery, Internal Medicine, and direct time with our on-site social worker (LCSW), current interns, and residents. If you are looking to do a veterinary externship, please follow the link below and fill out the application below. https://vcastudentapplication.marsvh.com/student/dvm-externship-applica… If you have any other questions in the meantime please feel free to reach out!! Proximity: |
| Hidden Brook Veterinary Services LLC, MA Description of Elective Experience: Day to day small animal practice procedures from history taking , SOAP creation, scheduleing visits, restraining patients, blood drawing and sample prep. Surgery prep and observing surgical procedures, Recovery of post surgical patients. Suture material / suture patterns if time allows. Proximity: |
| Arrowhead Ranch Animal Hospital, AZ Description of Elective Experience: We are a full-service small animal practice. Our goal is to offer and intense and informative clinical to each extern we come in contact with. Arrowhead Ranch Animal Hospital offers the extern the opportunity to work with 3 Onsite Practice Owners during the externship. The extern would be exposed to the philosophy of practicing medicine, client service expectations and methodology. The day to day schedule will mirror what they will see in a small animal practice. Surgeries and dentals in the morning, and visiting rooms in the afternoon. We would like to immerse the extern in every phase of the business. What charts look like; How to engage with a client; Shadowing surgical procedures; Building relationships and rapport with staff. Proximity: |
| Kingsbrook Animal Hospital, MD Description of Elective Experience: Dear OSU Veterinary Students, As 1993 graduates of the Ohio State University School of Veterinary Medicine, we are interested in giving back to our profession and especially our alma mater by participating in student learning experiences such as externships, elective rotations, etc. Kingsbrook Animal Hospital is a growing 8 doctor, 12 licensed technician, AAHA, small animal/exotic practice in Frederick, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC. Kingsbrook Animal Hospital has cool equipment, practices great medicine and surgery, has excellent relations with area veterinary specialists as well as a successful mentoring program. What really sets us apart is our people. Our staff members are very involved in our success and are what makes our hospital different than most. Check out our Google Reviews--they are all about our people. If you haven't looked at our website, be sure to watch our video and hear what our clients say about us. Kingsbrook Animal Hospital is very involved in improving our community. Our website has information on our Vet Academy for school students, our benevolent fund called the Kylie and Cricket Memorial Fund, our Haunted Hospital, etc. We are original members of Cynthia Wutchiett and Denise Tumblin's Well Managed Practice Group. This has allowed us to further develop each of our doctor’s practice management and business skills. You will often see our hospital cited and our doctors quoted in Vet Economic's yearly BenchMark Study. In addition to attending national meetings, we conduct extensive in-hospital educational programs for our staff: Dr. Jane Shaw, Associate Professor of Veterinary Communication of Colorado State University and an expert in veterinarian-client-patient interactions vists our hospital quarterly to develop our staff’s communication skills. Dr. Cindy Charlier AVDC, of Veterinary Dental Education regularly visits our hospital to conduct clinics to further develop our dentistry skills. Last year we hosted Dr. Andy Roark of the Uncharted Veterinary Conference to develop our team. We have laprascopic surgery, in-house lab equipment, ultrasound, have digital dental xrays and are very advanced in dentistry. We perform a variety of surgeries including laparscopic spays, abdominal exploratories, gastrotomies, cystotomies, enterotomies, vulvoplasties, lump removals, and oral surgery. For more information, give us a call or email. References from area specialists, WTA Veterinary Consultants and others are available upon request.
Brent Cook, Morse Davis and Adrienne Cardella 301 631 6900 Kingsbrook Animal Hospital 5322 New Design Road Frederick, MD 21703 Proximity: |
| Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Swine Medicine Education Center, IA Description of Elective Experience: Two week clinical rotation in swine production medicine, emerging diseases, management, and pharmacology. Students will be assigned to take the lead in investigating field based client cases with supervision of the instructors. Development of critical thinking skills that will allow students to apply concepts of herd management, production analysis, economic analysis, and disease prevention in addressing client cases. Variable amounts of travel to farm sites will be required. Proximity: |