Offsite Electives

Here at Pointe Animal Hospital we would be able to provide a real world experience as a small animal general practice practitioner.  Students will be given the opportunity to observe and conduct physical examinations, take and interpret radiographs, draw blood, read and interpret CBC and chem profiles, give vaccinations/medications, care for hospitalized patients, prepare and read cytologies, aid and assist in surgeries and dental cleanings and extractions, and generally aid in any of the other varied tasks that arise when acting as a general practitioner.  We are quite busy for a single practitioner clinic, seeing an average of roughly 20-25 patients per day along with 2-3 surgeries per day.

Our veterinary hospital is comprised of 13 progressive general practioners; two ABVP board certified practitioners and five specialists.   Our board certified specialty team consists of two surgeons, dermatologist, cardiologist and a dually boarded IM/ECC specialist.   Twelve to fifteen of our GP/ABVP veterinary staff are previous interns who completed a HAH internship and have remained a part of the HAH family for anywhere between 1 and 30+ years.

To round out our specialty team we have three members of the American College of Veterinary Radiologists who are available for consultation to the practice in the reviewing of our digital radiographs as well as Antech Imaging Services. These groups provide additional radiographic expertise for the intern group, as well as daily written tele-radiographic consultation.

We use Antech as the main reference laboratory, in conjunction with our fully staffed in-house lab.  We are able to perform routine chemistries, hemograms, and cytology daily.   An Idexx Catalyst dry chemistry unit is available for after-hours or STAT chemistries.VCA HAH has a dedicated veterinary pharmacy with a knowledgeable and friendly staff. 

We have an extremely busy emergency room requiring us to have point of care testing to include I-Stat, Alpha Trak and a hand held Lactate meter.   In addition, TFAST and AFAST ultrasound is available .  The hospital maintains 18 anesthesia stations with state of the art monitoring and anesthesia capabilities including, a CT machine,  Life Window and BioNet physiologic monitors, respiratory monitors, Doppler blood pressure and SurgiVet pulse oximetry.  There are three operating suites, with a total of six tables, available as well as two dental tables with Schick digital dental radiography.  Other radiographic capabilities are provided with two 600 MA 100 Kvp x-ray units with Eklin digitalized processing.   

During the externs time here, they will rotate through specialists, 5 days a week putting in 8 hour days, for ideally two weeks.  In total, they will spend 4 days with our boarded surgeon Dr. Brianna Danielson, 2 days with our dermatologist Dr. Melanie Hnot, 2 days with our cardiologist Dr. Dewey Carpenter, 1 day with our criticalist/internal medicine specialist Dr. Randi Fishkin, and one day with one of our ABVP staff DVM's Dr. Anne Murphy.

Unfortunately we do not have facilities for the housing of students.

Perdue Foods LLC is the 4th largest broiler producer in the USA, producing approximately 13 million broilers per week. Perdue is the 6th largest US turkey producer, growing over 8 million turkeys per year.

Student will shadow and assist experienced poultry veterinarians and assist poultry production personnel in their daily duties.  This will include visits to hatcheries, broiler farms, processing plants, and poultry diagnostic laboratories.  Student will attend meetings where poultry diagnostics, health program planning, regulatory, and poultry production planning topics are discussed. Student may assist in sample collection in hatcheries and on farms. Student may assist with poultry vaccination or vaccination audits. Student will learn the company's detailed poultry welfare program and the detailed biosecurity requirements. Student will perform and/or assist with poultry necropsies. Student may assist or perform poultry welfare or biosecurity audits. Student will interact with poultry farmers. Student will learn about standard vaccination programs for both broiler breeders and broilers, as well as anticoccidial programs for broilers. Student will learn about NAE (No Antibiotics Ever) broiler production and Organic broiler production. Student will learn how to properly prescribe antibiotic treatments for commercial broilers. Student will learn to review diagnostic lab reports with regard to making subsequent veterinary recommendations. Student will learn how to collect and analyze complex production statistics and evaluate their relevance to poultry health. Student will be exposed to emergency preparedness (HPAI, LPAI, weather, etc.) as it relates to large integrated poultr operations. Student may spend time with non-Perdue poultry veterinarians in the area as well, performing the aforementioned activities, depending on scheduling. Student is required to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.

Students receive training and familiarization with all facets of the Army veterinary/public health program.  They are mentored by an Active Duty veterinary officer and are rotated through 1-4 veterinary clinics operated by the Public Health Activity.  They are exposed to preventive veterinary medicine with privately owned animals, as well as surgical procedures with both canine and feline patients.  In addition, they are exposed to the veterinary food safety aspects of the Army mission.  They accompany a veterinary food safety officer to both military food establishments, as well as commercial vendors supplying food to the military and conduct facility inspections and food safety audits. 

The extern will be working with wildlife veterinarians associated with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center (WHC) at UC Davis, rotating between CDFW's Wildlife Investigations Lab in Rancho Cordova and the Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center in Santa Cruz, with variable time spent at the WHC participating in ongoing field research projects and/or oil spill response. At this time, the extern will likely gain practical experience in wildlife immobilization, examination, and transport with Pacific fisher for one week and bighorn sheep for 2 weeks, conduct gross necropsies on a variety of terrestrial wildlife species (including but emphasizing mountain lion) for one week and marine species for one week, and interact with professors and graduate students conducting wildlife disease investigation and management, research projects at the WHC for one week.

SMALL AND LARGE ANIMAL

The extern will be shadowing our 7 doctors as well as technicians in our ICU, lab and surgery. They will be trained on hands on patient care for small animals. The right candidate may be able to assist with large animals as well. We see 15% equine and bovine, with a sprinkling of sheep, pigs and goats.

Student will accompany private practice owner veterinarian during daily farm visits as well as any emergency calls after hours.

Discussion of cases, case work-up, inventory and business management will also be discussed and observed.

Tremont animal clinic is a full service animal clinic that focuses on the health and well-being of dogs and cats.We offer a wide variety of surgical procedures, including elective procedures such as spay, neuter, and declaw. Major abdominal surgery procedures: tumor removals, bladder stone surgery, and orthopedic surgery (including but not limited to cruciate ligament repair and fracture repair). 

Students will be shadowing doctors in exam rooms and will be allowed to observe in surgery.

Students will be actively working with/observing doctors in various areas such as examinations and surgical procedures.  We encourage students to perform various tasks, blood draws, IV Catheter placement, and diagnostic testing.

Animal And Avian Medical Center is a 6 DVM private practice located in Brunswick, Ohio (20 min SW of Cleveland).  Our veterinarians treat a large variety of species including dogs, cats, birds, small mammals and pot-bellied pigs, and reptiles.  Our newly renovated hospital is well equipped with in-house lab, digital x-ray and dental x-ray, ultrasound, rigid endoscopy, and more.  Our team based care will allow a student to learn to appreciate the wide variety of personalities that bring care to our patients and clients.  The high quality medical care, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, dental services, and bird / small mammal / and exotic services that we offer to our clients is generally only outmatched by referral clinics.  This experience will allow a student to get a realistic appreciation of how a busy, small animal and exotic practice, that offers a large variety of services to a large variety of species, operates.