Offsite Electives

Modern 4 Doctor small animal practice located near the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio

Comprehensive small animal experience. Includes internal medicine, surgery, and alternative medicine. Student will get hands on experience in clinical setting. Includes an overview of interpreting financial statements and making decisions based on those statements.

We are a fast paced 6 doctor practice that does not only wellness appointments but also a wide range of surgeries including orthopedics. Our hospital also has a large boarding facility and grooming department. Daily pets from both of these departments make their way to the vet department for treatments while in the building with us for the day.

We are a large volume small animal practice with mutliple doctors. We have a large surgery volume  including: Trauma, oncological surgery, soft tissue, and orthopedic surgery. In addition, we receive multiple referral surgeries from all over the state of Ohio. 

Sawmill has Physcial Rehabilitation Center-underwater treadmill, goniometry, low level laser.

Burge Bird Services is a 100% avian veterinary hospital serving the Kansas City area.  Burge Bird Rescue is our nonprofit bird rescue, adoption, and sanctuary program.  Between our practice, patients and birds in the rescue, there is a never ending supply of birds that need to be worked on, with over 100 birds in our rescue at all times.  We see a wide variety of species from finches to parrots, non-native wild birds like pigeons and sparrows, domestic ducks, and backyard poultry.  Students are exposed to every aspect of avian practice depending upon our caseload during their visit.  

An interactive student externship offering unique experience in a corporate practice setting.  The student should gain experience with decision-making, diagnostics, physical exams, hands-on and technical skills.

Students will be shadowing the doctors in the exam rooms and given the opportunity to take the lead during exams also.  They can develop their own treatment plan with the input of the doctor on duty.

Students will be assisting with surgical procedures under doctor supervision if time allows.

Students will be performing dental procedures under doctor supervision.

We encourage students to perform jugular blood draws and place i.v. catheters.

We encourage any and all questions.  We want our students to obtain real clinical experience during their 2 weeks with us.

Students will be shadowing Doctors in Exam rooms and given the oppertunity to take the lead during examinations with the imput of the doctor on duty.

Students will be assisting with surgical procedures under doctor supervision if time allows. 

We encourage students to perform jugular blood draws and place IV catheters

We encourage any and all questions; we want our students to obtain real clinical experience during their two weeks with us

We hope to provide a hands-on experience in the veterinary medical field and how it pertains to rural southeastern Ohio. Meeting the demands of our community in providing pet care, providing education to the client, understanding the financial restraints on the client,  all while trying to offer the best possible vet care we can for the pet, is part of the day-to-day experience at our clinic.

We provide routine care, education, vaccines, dental cleanings and spay/neuter surgeries to our clients.  We also provide a multitude of non-routine services as well, such as, cystotomys, c-sections on dogs and cats, mass removals, dental extractions, leg amputations etc.

Any extern coming into our practice will have the opportunity to experience all of this and more.  They will see the routine veterinary medicine, the hectic moments, the emergencies, but will be learning each and every day at our clinic. 

• Treatment of patients in the hospital including oral meds, injections, SQ fluids, feeding
• Entering treatments and SOAPS into the computer, answering phones when needed.
• Going over cases/husbandry with clients.
• Helping the doctors get medication prescriptions ready for clients
• Demonstrating medications with clients.
• Cleaning up cages, floors, etc.
• Going into appointments with the Dr’s and the techs... restraint for exotics, nail trims, wing trims, etc
• Helping technicians with x-rays
• Observing/Assisting in surgery/ultrasound/endoscopy
• Necropsy/collecting tissues for histopathology

Veterinary interns will have the opportunty to learn more about laboratory animal science and the role/responsibilities of a veterianrian in a lab animal setting.