Offsite Electives

Externship at Saint Francis Animal Hospital in Saint Cloud Florida. Experience to include routine physical exams, radiology, surgeries, sonography, echocardiography, dentistry, record keeping, anesthesiology, laboratory interpretation, treatments, time management and other aspects of veterinary. medicine. 

Founded in 2010, this purpose built wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility has helped hundreds of animals return to the wild or find sanctuary when prior injury precludes wild release. This project accepts students interested in working in veterinary, nursing, or conservation roles and is for those on a gap year and hoping to study medicine in the future, pre vets, vet nurse students and pre-clinical vet students.

Small animal practice focusing on animal wellness, spays/neuters, basic surgeries and dentistry.  We are independently owned and operated.  We serve Strongsville, North Royalton, Parma, Middleburgh Heights, Brunswick and other local areas.

This will be a production medicine externship (poultry). The extern will be exposed to multiple types of housing and production systems during this time. Communicaton with management will be emphasized as well as diagnostics, troubleshooting, and problem solving. 

• MedVet Silicon Valley veterinary student externships are designed for fourth-year veterinary students seeking additional training and experience at a small animal emergency and specialty referral practice. 
• The MedVet emergency and critical care externship program provides a structured clinical experience supervised by experienced emergency doctors and board-certified criticalists
• The duration of MedVet externships require a 1 week commitment, although 2 weeks is preferred to maximize your learning experience. Students are responsible for their own accommodations. 

Quick Facts:

● 10 Doctor Private Practice 

● Food-Animal Ambulatory Exclusive 

• + 1 Mixed Animal, 2 Small Animal practices 

● OPU, Embryo Transfer specialities with 3 donor housing locations

● Company-owned dairy farm with embryo recipient herd

● Custom heifer raiser division

    Stateline Veterinary Service is based out of Darien, WI among a hub of dairy producers and livestock clients on the Wisconsin/Illinois border. We provide complete and unlimited veterinary service to dairy, beef, sheep, goats, and swine. Breakdown of species consists of approximately 75% dairy, 15% beef, 5% small ruminant, 5% show swine. Our herds range from 3,000 cows to 30 head with a variety of management styles and housing systems.

   Veterinarians on staff have special interests and devote time to embryo transfer, OPU/IVF, calf health, calf lung ultrasound, small ruminant laparoscopic AI in addition to production herd health medicine. Most mornings consist of routine herd work, including ultrasounding for pregnancy.  Afternoons are filled with consulting, chute jobs, sick calls, and other scheduled procedures. 

    Our SVS owned dairy farm provides many opportunities for hands-on learning regarding all facets of dairy production. The farm serves to calve out recipient heifers carrying genomic embryos and provides a number of calving and calf processing opportunities at high level biosecurity. Our calf raising facility can provide experience in intensive calf raising and benchmarking. 

River Valley is a busy general private practice that has vast opportunity for a variety of experience for students or new graduates alike. Our cases range from routine preventative care and vaccines to in depth medicine cases with hospitalization. We offer a wide variety of soft tissue surgeries and general practice dental procedures. Our support staff is experienced and extremely capable. We also handle emergencies during business hours. 

The Jefferson County Humane Society Clinic is a high volume low cost clinic that not only does public appointments and surgeries but also cares for all the animals at our shelter as well as works with the humane operations doing exams and work ups. 

We are Veterinary Emergency Group, an organization founded on a single mission: helping people and their pets when they need it most. VEG's rapidly growing group of hospitals has revolutionized pet emergency and urgent care with a client-centered approach, rapid response times, and a highly focused-emergency-only staff. With multiple locations, we offer the flexibility, mentorship, and diverse learning experience you want. Our industry-leading compensation, unlimited CE, and growth opportunities are just part of what makes VEG the place for emergency doctors to work.

VEG's Externship Program allows students to gain hands-on experience in emergency medicine while working right alongside our skilled emergency doctors. Students will focus on learning how to effectively communicate with clients, diagnose a variety of emergency conditions, develop emergency treatment plans and collaborate with support staff in a fast-paced environment.

Students with be paired with a clinician on various specialty services based on their interests, and have the opportunity to observe the daily operations of a busy referral hospital including doctor rounds, appointments, advanced imaging and other diagnostics, management of complicated cases, and a variety of procedures and surgeries.