Offsite Electives

We are a mixed animal practice located in southwest Minnesota focused primarily on food animal. We provide traditional veterinary services along with consultation and production medicine for swine, dairy and feedlot producers. We have species specific veterinarians that practice in multiple states in the upper midwest.

We are an equine surgical referral hospital with one ACVS boarded large animal surgeon (Dr Tracey) and one GP that focuses on reproduction, dentistry and lameness (Dr Bottger).  We expect our externs to participate in day to day activities, treatments, and emergencies.   

Campus Veterinary Services provides both clinical and project support to the majority of research and teaching animals on campus which includes a large variety of species including the traditional rodent laboratory animal species but also includes fish, frogs, birds, sheep, cats, dogs and others. Students shadow our residents and staff clinicians during their externships and have assignments which include protocol review, journal seminar, resident seminar, wet lab participation, handout preparation and final presentation to staff on the last day of the rotation.

Externs will rotate with our general practice and emergency doctors during their externship.

• This is a food animal (predominately feedlot cattle) externship. Experiences will include, but not be limited to:
• Field Necropsies
•         Elective surgeies
•         Auction mart tour and cattle buying exercise
•         Cattle feeding exercise
•         Packing plant tour
•         Cow/Calf field exercise
•         Chronic pen management
•         Applied euthanasia techniques

·        Pen checking exercise

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills ~ Observe interactions among veterinarinas, clients and staff members, including grief counseling ad conflict resolution.  Observe division of labor between veterinarinas, technicians, office staff, etc.
• Practice Management and Business ~ Observe appointment scheduling procedures, fee structure, retail sales, operating costs, daily receipts, ownership structure, work schedule and billing/collection procedures. Become familiar with medical recordkeeping, business management software, drug inventory and labeling, controlled drug handling and sanitation and waste disposal.
• Veterinary Medical Skills Pertinent to General Veterinary Practice ~ Observe wellness appointment, pre-surgical appointment, emergency, etc.  Observe physical examination, restraint and safe handling, routine preventive medicine, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, routine laboratory tests, nursing care, routine surgical procedures, anesthesia and sedation protocols, induction, monitoring and recovery, digital radiology, necropsy, emergency appointments and intensive care.    

****Our practice allows students to actively participate and gain hands-on experience. 

Clinical rotation of Equine Medicine

Clear Springs Foods makes its home on the scenic Snake River Canyon of southern Idaho's Magic Valley. Here, our rainbow trout are farm-raised in concrete raceways fed by an abundance of crystal clear spring water. Ideal growing conditions, combined with a commitment to quality and innovation, have made Clear Springs the world's largest producer of rainbow trout, processing over 20 million pounds a year. Clear Springs Foods is vertically-integrated with a feed mill, brood stations, grow-out farms, processing plants, and trucking fleet distributing high-quality fresh and frozen products to markets across the United States twice a week. 

Veterinary externs at Clear Springs will spend time on the production facilities learning health management and production practices. They will be involved with fish heath exams and treatments on the farm in addition to spending time at the Diagnostic Laboratory participating in fish necropsies as well as performing bacteriology, virology, and molecular biology assays. Externs may also be involved with research projects that could include disease investigation, vaccine development and delivery, nutrition, brood fish selection, and others. 

A video about Clear Springs Foods can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/BtkAgoLwNME

Just Cats Veterinary Services has an ABVP approved residency program for feline practice and is equipped to handle externships. Exposure to feline internal medicine and some surgery with focus on cats with multiple coexisting disease processes, critical care, imaging. We also perform at least 10 dental procedures per week, with exposure to digital radiography, extraction techniques, some endodontics.

Tristate Bird Rescue (TSBR) is accepting applications from 4th year veterinary students attending veterinary school in the United States for a 3-6 week externship.  TSBR has two main programs: 1.  a wild avian rehabilitation clinic that admits approximately 3,000 cases per year as well as 2. an oiled wildlife response team. TSBR employs 1 full time veterinarian.  Externs will work closely with the veterinarian to perform the care, treatments, procedures, and husbandry of approximately 5 assigned cases.  In addition, the extern will be involved in admission of new patients; diagnostics such as radiography, fecal examination and basic bloodwork; surgeries; recheck examinations; avian ophthalmology; and medical record keeping. Applicants must be in their 4th year of veterinary school (or the equivalent) in the United States. Applicants must have completed at least 1 clinical rotation within their school’s hospital prior to the TSBR externship. Interested applicants should email Dr. Cristin Kelley at ckelley@tristatebird.org.