Offsite Electives

We offer unpaid rotations where students may shadow our three full-time veterinarians and assist where appropriate. Our schedule varies day to day and our patients include avian, exotic, canine, feline, and small mammal patients as well as injured wildlife for both routine appointments and surgeries. 

Student will be engaged in examining, diagnosing, and treating a variety of small patients. We do surgeries 3 days/week, so the student will also be fully engaged in assisting with surgeries. As we are a mixed animal practice, the opportunity will arise to go on farm calls as well.  Occasionally, we do some exotic work as it arises. That cannot be depended on.

Students are immersed in shelter and community medicine.  There are limited surgical and dental opportunities, those are limited to students that come with strong surgical training.

Students work with Head of Veterinary Services and APL Surgeons.  They work on herd health issues and individual care.  An outpatient community service exists and the student may spend time in the outpatient clinic with a DVM.

Directly assist veterinarians in all aspects of patient care - including medical and surgical cases.

Observation and assisting doctors in surgery and appointments

To spend a couple of weeks interning here at Natomas Veterinary Hospital would give the participant an opportunity to see what it is like to work in a small animal veterinary hospital, including some of the background duties and challenges a practice owner has to deal with regarding clients, employees, and some economics of running a practice. Also the student would also gain appreciation of the practical experience of working up and treating typical small animal patients, and a few exotics, in the "real world" where we can still offer the ideal care but may be constrained financially and how a small animal hospital veterinarian would approach these cases on a day to day basis.

 

Observation of high diagnostic general practice.  Varied surgeries performed including orthopedic, laproscopic procedures, laser surgery. Digital radiology and ultrasound on site.

Ethos is a group of specialty referral and emergency care practices, with locations in New England, Denver, San Diego and Chicago.  We welcome student externs.  Externs will actively participate in daily hospital rounds and case discussions. We want to hear your thoughts and questions about cases, and appreciate the perspective you will bring. You will also have opportunities to observe outpatient receiving, emergency case management, hospital treatments, surgery, diagnostic procedures and client communications.  Because the program is intended to be observational rather than hands-on, you will not be doing surgery on your own, receiving patients or having primary responsibility for treatments. 

Below is a description of specialties and location:

1. Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital
   • Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency, critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology (medical and surgical), ophthalmology, surgery, physical rehabilitation and sports medicine.
   • Please see the link for criteria for applying and links to applications. http://wheatridgeanimal.com/vets/ed_opps.html
2. Veterinary Specialty Hospital (2 locations, to be described together, Sorrento Valley and North County)
   • Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency and critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology (medical and radiation), ophthalmology, surgery. All services are available in both locations except radiation oncology, which is in Sorrento Valley. Some services, such as anesthesia, diagnostic imaging and ophthalmology, may not be available for externships.
   • Externs are taken on a first come, first served basis. Please email Ann Ong at aong@ethosvet.com. Please contact jorvalho@ucdavis.edu to schedule a visit with cardiology.
3. Premier (4 locations in Chicago: Kane County, Grayslake, Belmont and Crestwood)
   • Services offered include cardiology, emergency, internal medicine, neurology, oncology and surgery, depending on the location.
   • Please email Dr Amanda Full at afull@ethosvet.com to schedule a visit.
4. IVG Hospitals  (4 locations in New England: MassVet, Bulger, Port City and MetroWest)
   • Services offered include anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency, critical care, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, and physical rehabilitation.
   • Externs are taken on a first come, first served basis.Please email Jana Gabarro at jgabarro@ethosvet.com.

Assist veterinarians with in diagnostics, treatments and case discussions.   Please see AAEP website:  https://aaep.org/about-aaep

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo offers 4 week externships to 3rd and 4th year veterinary students who have an interest in exotic animal medicine.  The externship will cover all aspect of the medical care of the zoo's 2,500 individual animals.  Students will be able to particiapte in many procedures and will be responsible for helping with record keeping, treatments, and laboratory procedures.  Interested individuals should submit their current CV to the hospital administrator, Sharon Yahnert, @ sag@clevelandmetroparks.com to determine what is currently available.