Offsite Electives

Mixed animal practice.  Heavy emphasis on bovine reproduction, palpation, and herd health.  Student will have opportunity to help scrub-in on surgeries.

Students well be imersed in a Mixed Animal hospital atmosphere with a variety of cases occuring daily. Large animal includes equine, bovine, caprine, and ovine on the road. Small animal is busy with wellness and sick animal cat and dog appointments in house, routine surgeries, radiographs, ultrasounds, and more. We also have a third branch to our practice working closely with the local animal shelter where we perform spays, neuters, and exams every day for animals getting adopted through the county. Students will be able to shadow closely with the doctors through their daily routines, many opportunities to interact with clients, and even have some possibilities to scrub in for spays and neuters.  

Final year student will be involved with day-to-day clinic life. Duties will include thorough history taking, restraint of patients, physical examinations and assisting for procedures. 

Willow Creek Veterinary Service is a 2 doctor practice in Medina, OH. Our caseload is approximately 60% equine (primarily ambulatory) and 40% small animal (in clinic). In addition, we see a small number of camelids and ruminants. Students will shadow doctors on ambulatory and in-clinic appointments, as well as assist in surgery and with hospitalized patients.

You will have the opportunity to observe and participate in surgeries, routine client exams, reproduction and more.  You will work with  different doctors on different levels of capacity.   Surgeries may vary from regular spays and neuters to laporoscopic procedures, surgical A.I.'s and C-Sections.  You will also have the opportunity to see our emergency side of things.  We are open 24/7 and have staff here all the time. 

Daily equine ambulatory externship. Ability to go on routine and emergency calls to farms, part-time surgeon/elective case load, internal medicine specialist 1x/month visits, local opthalmologist available and a moderate-high load of dentistry. Moderate reproductive case-load especially in spring. Apartment upstairs to stay in with kitchen, washer/dryer. 

The practice consists of 7 DVM's working in a diverse environment; students may preview the day's schedule and choose the experiences they wish to be involved with. The practice is 40% commercial kennel, 25% pet practice, 35% large animal with a very heavy regulatory and surgical case load in all areas.

Mixed animal practice. Mostly cattle & equine, with some caprine, camelids, etc...

The experience consists of observing and participating in veterinary diagnostic lab procedures with emphasis on avian species (mainly poultry and wildlife).  The procedures include client interviews for histories, blood collection, gross post mortem exams, histopathology and other supporting tests including serology, bacteriology, parasitology, molecular biology. Field trips to sites such as farms, hatcheries, processing plants, off-site meetings may be incorporated as schedules allow.

Our goal is for the student to gain real world experience with small animal medicine and surgery. We will push the student to step out of their comfort zone and not simply follow our doctor around. We will arrange for some surgeries from our local shelter to help gain more experience in spays and neuters. Gaining time in communicating with the clients is important and one we think can be difficult for students.