Offsite Electives

The Livestock Services experience will be clinical veterinary medicine in a veterinary teaching hospital environment.  The species consist primarily of beef cattle, but also sheep, goats, camelids and swine.  Depending on caseload, the experience will be with both individual medicine and surgery in the clinic,  as well as in the field.

Our clinic has doctors that specialize in small animal, large animal, and equine.  Our practice consists of general preventative care, reproduction, dentistry, as well as any emergency calls that arise. The majority of the cases we see are on-farm, however, we have a facility to perform elective surgeries as well as see cases in house.  

The student will observe and assist with physical rehabilitation cases. They will also have the opportunity to participate in routine and advanced dentistry, and shadow doctors in the exam room and surgery suite. 

Student will be assigned to Dr and shadow throughout the day.

We are a 24 hour Emergency and Critical Care Hospital. We are open 24 hours per day. We care for dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles and wildlife. We see on average 500 to 650 cases per month. Our externs are paired with our doctors. They get to follow our doctors into exam rooms, discuss diagnostic testing that needs to be performed, review diagnostics and assist with designing a treatment plan. We allow all externs to assist with surgical procedures. We are able to assist them with experencing a wide variety of cases. We also have three cardiologist that work in our building that our externs have assess to for assistance with some cardiac and pulmonary cases.

Shadowing experience GP and ER vets into patient exams and procedures.

Cross Country Genetics is a full service embryo transfer practice that works predominately with beef cattle in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska.  Students will get the opportunity to observe and participate in donor management; embryo collection; embryo handling and evaluation; transfer of embryos; and palpation and ultrasound for pregnancy.

We are an  large animal ambulatory practice in the Central Valley of California.  We mainly do dairy cattle work - primarily reproductive, vaccinations, computer analysis, and milk quality.  We have a large milk quality lab at our clinic.  We also do beef, some equine, small ruminants, and porcine work.  Currently we are a 5 person practice.  The vet students ride with different veterinarians each day.   We try to tailor the calls to the students' interest.  Most calls involve rectal palpations and calfhood vaccinations, but if there is another call that day that interests the student, we can make changes to the schedule.

Tosh Pork, LLC is a swine production company located in western Tennessee and western Kentucky.  The student will spend most of their time engaged in swine herd health managment with the staff veterinarian.  Students will also gain valuable swine production knowledge in a commercial farrow-to-finish envrionment.  Students will develop diagnostic sample collection and interpretation skills, understand disease dynamics within populations, and experience the implementation of disease treatment and control strategies.

Student will be participating in daily rounds with the Internal Medicine Department held twice daily. Student will be in the exam room with the specialists when patients are seen. Since our Internists perform their own ultrasound examinations, the student will have an opportunity to observe these procedures. Our Internists regularly perform Endoscopic procedures during which the student will also be present. The student will have an opportunity to closely observe and interact directly with patients under the supervision of one of our four board certified Internists.