Offsite Electives

Students will shadow clinicians throughout their day, including participating in consults, client communications, treatments and procedures, case discussions and treatment decisions.

Independently owned, rural, companion-animal, general practice.

Regionalization Evaluation Services (RES) evaluates the animal health statuses of foreign regions and assesses the risk of disease introduction via animal commodities for import into the United States. We follow science- and risk-based approaches that are consistent with APHIS obligations under international trade agreements. Externs would participate in projects as assigned, as well as opportunities to shadow Veterinary Services (VS) personnel both virtually and in-person. Past students have completed short projects and developed oral presentations. Externs may also be able to shadow VS personnel carrying out duties in the field, such as inspecting animals or animal facilities. When externs are not meeting with VS personnel or working on projects, we expect they will complete self-paced learning activities including Incident Command System (ICS) training and National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP) modules.

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Westfield Animal Hospital is an AAHA accredited veterinary clinic and is a part of Pet Vet Care Centers. As part of this externship, students will mimic the RISE mentorship program to get a better understanding of not only the program, but the mentor(s) and hospital(s) as well. "The RISE Mentorship program is a rotational, immersion & skill-building, experience structured to support the transition from academia into clinical practice. Participants will be paired with an experienced mentor, while they practice medicine and manage their own caseload."

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.