Offsite Electives

Kutter Pet Care Center is a small animal practice, seeing dogs, cats, and exotic pets. The student veterinarian under supervision can take part in examinations, workups, diagnostics, blood draws, catheter placement, hospital treatments, scrub in for surgeries, participate in sedated oral exams (including scaling, polishing, and dental rads), chemotherapy administration,  practice with ultrasound and radiographs.  

Circle H Headquarters is a mixed animal practice wih a focus on laboratory services for food animal producers including beef, dairy and swine. 

This opportunity will allow clinical year veterinary students to experience a unique, equatorial archipelago and much of its natural history and cultural offerings.  The Galápagos Science Center (GSC) will serve as the base of operations.  Dr. Gregory Lewbart, who has worked at the facility 25 separate times, will be the program leader and guide, assisted by Dr. Diane Deresienski. Local and visiting scientists will assist him.  Lectures, laboratory sessions, and learning excursions will cover a wide variety of zoological and medical topics dealing with native invertebrates, fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals. 

Students in the Banfield Externship Program will: 

• Gain real-world experience through exposure to full-service hospitals and techniques under the watchful care of a personal coach 

• Develop medical and surgical skills under the care of a licensed coach as allowed by state regulations.

• Learn to practice veterinary medicine within a well-equipped hospital. 

• Perfect physical examination skills using Banfield's proprietary computer-guided exam minimum standards. 

• Learn about the business of veterinary practice through exposure to Banfield's marketing and leadership initiatives.

Description of Elective Experience: 

Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital is a 24-hour referral center and emergency hospital in Northeastern Ohio, approximately one hour southeast of Cleveland.  Metropolitan supports specialists in the areas of Critical Care/Emergency, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Oncology, Surgery, Radiology, Neurology, ophthalmology, and Exotics.  Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital is a teaching hospital offering Externships, General Internships, Specialty Internships (Exotics/Medicine/Surgery), and Residencies(exotics/medicine/surgery/neurology/cardiology).  We welcome Veterinary students and encourage participation in our teaching programs.

Our Externship program allows veterinary students the freedom to design a rotation schedule emphasizing their specific interests in Internal Medicine/Oncology, Surgery/Neurology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, and/or Critical Care/Emergency Medicine.  This personalized schedule, our commitment to teaching, our large caseload, and our hospital's commitment to provide the highest quality veterinary care, lead to a great experience for our veterinary externs.

Hands on general practice case management.

At Appalachian Veterinary Services, students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic, mixed-animal practice. Our clinical rotation aims to provide students with a well-rounded understanding of veterinary medicine in both companion and large animal settings. 

Students who participate in our clinical program can expect to be exposed to diverse clinical cases where students will work alongside our experienced team of veterinarians to create treatment plans for a variety of cases including routine wellness exams, emergency care, surgical procedures and herd health management. Under the supervision of our veterinary team, students will participate in clinical procedures such as diagnostics, imaging, and treatment plans which will allow them to build on their technical skills and clinic decision-making expertise. Our team is dedicated to offering students the opportunities to ask questions, discuss cases and receive constructive feedback all while enhancing their clinical skills. 

Here at the North Main Animal Clinic, we are committed to high-quality patient care for companion animals. We are located in Dayton, Ohio and proudly serve a diverse community of clients. Externs should expect to gain hands-on experience tailored to their needs. Previous offerings include a comprehensive dentistry elective that was in conjunction with Midmark and OSU. We've also worked with second and third year students and those experiences were based on the individual extern. Requests fulfilled were working daily appointments, developing a physical exam routine, working cases, reading and understanding diagnostics and practicing surgical skills.

Students will experience the life of a newly minted solo rural mixed large animal practitioner.  This will include being immersed and engaged on regular farm calls as well as involved in how as a solo practitioner the business is handled and being expanded.  Farm calls consist of around 70% equine cases and 30% mixed large animal with the majority of that being beef cattle clients.  Students will be expected to be heavily involved in taking histories, performing species appropriate physical exams, creating problem and differential diagnostic lists, deciding on diagnostic plans, and executing treatment plans.  They are also expected as they become comfortable to be involved with the client comunicaton and case follow up.  Emergency service is offered and students are invited and encouraged to participate when possible.  Housing is available for students that wish to stay.

At Care Pets the student will have the opportunity to work with all of the doctors at the practice so that they can see a variety of cases and different points of view on tackling cases.  This will include  GP for dogs and cats, exotics and the rehab service. They will also get to participate in surgery, appointments and hospitalized cases.  The students will also participate in daily discussion of cases with the doctors. Sellerburg Indiana is about 20 minutes from the Louisville metropolitan area so we see a mix of rural and suburban clients.  We practice high quality medicine, but also can provide experience in treating pets with owners in financial hardships.  Depending on the timing of the extern the student maybe able to work with our boarded surgeon or go off site for raptor cases, koi cases or coyote.