Offsite Electives

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.

Experience in a busy general practice.  We will do our best to simulate the duties of a general practitioner for the student.

General practice small animal medicine and surgery   Dental / oral sugical referral practice, endodontics, exodontics, periodontics, orthodontics, oral surgery

Mixed animal GP practice. Students are allowed and expected to be hands on. 

Student will experience an equine breeding farm with 500 active brood mares and many stallions.  They will experience breeding/foaling and general practice 

Students will work with the State Public Health Veterinarian on a variety of zoonotic public health projects in the Zoonotic Disease Program at the Ohio Department of Health.  Experiences will be tailored to student interests and provide a comprehensive look into the work of State public health agencies and how they work with veterinarians, the general public, local health departments, and other state and federal agencies.  Experiences and projects will vary based on the time of year and current zoonotic and One Health topics affecting Ohio. The elective can be virtual or hybrid and may offer the opportunity for fieldwork (seasonally dependent). 

Small animals general practice 

The Greensboro Science Center (GSC) is an AZA/AAM accredited zoo, aquarium, and science museum located in Greensboro, NC.  Our 22-acre zoo cares for an expansive collection including red pandas, okapi, pygmy hippos, tigers, servals, maned wolves, cassowary, komodo dragons, and many other species.  Our 36,000 sq ft aquarium includes a collection of large and small sharks, multiple ray species, fresh and salt water fish, otters, penguins, and small primates, among others.  The GSC is proud to offer 2 and 4 week externships to veterinary students in their final clinical year.  All externs will have the opportunity to participate in the day to day care of the animals in the collection, including but not limited to, preventative medicine, recheck, and emergency exams on a variety of species from multiple taxa.  We attempt to offer as many hands-on opportunities as we are able too along with didactic educational items such as journal club and zoo specific lectures as time allows. 

At EVCC, externs are mentored by their future colleagues and become an integral part of our practice. The externship experience is individually tailored to each student and your schools requirements. You will truly become immersed into a continuous learning environment, enhancing your veterinary knowledge and skills daily.

We are four doctor practice who treats small animals. 

The student will be helping with room appointments (annual wellness exams, sick exams, post-surgical recheck exams, etc.) and getting experience with soft tissue surgeries and dental COHAT's.