Offsite Electives

Student will be able to develop skills in diagnostics and treatment of ocular conditions.

Develop understanding of veterinary ophthalmology.

Student will develop skills needed to use  opthalmic exam equipment such as slit lamp and direct otpahlmoscope by working along side DACVO and second year opthalmology resident ..

This elective experince will offer some insight into the realities of working in specialized field of veterinary opthalmology. 

Bean Blossom Animal Clinic is a full-service, walk-in veterinary practice in Brown County, Indiana, that has served the Nashville area since 1966, offering medical, surgical, and dental care for pets. They provide a range of services, including wellness exams, vaccinations, surgery, and diagnostics, and are known for being a community-focused clinic that welcomes walk-ins and is open on Saturdays. 

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.

Our practice provides comprehensive medical and surgical care in a mobile setting, allowing students to see a wide variety of cases in private homes, rescue facilities, and zoological or sanctuary environments. Services include wellness and preventative care, diagnostics, radiology, anesthesia, dentistry, and surgery for a range of exotic species. We also collaborate with local wildlife centers and rescue organizations, giving students exposure to both companion and rescue medicine.

Students participating in this elective will:

• Observe and assist with avian and exotic animal appointments in a mobile practice setting
• Gain hands-on experience with restraint, physical exams, sample collection, and basic procedures as appropriate for their skill level
• Observe and assist with anesthesia, radiographs, and surgical procedures
• Learn about husbandry, nutrition, and client education for a wide range of species
• Participate in case discussions and clinical decision-making
• Experience the logistics and workflow of a mobile exotic animal veterinary service

This elective offers a unique perspective on providing high-quality exotic animal medicine outside of a traditional clinic setting, with a strong emphasis on practical skills, client communication, and individualized patient care.

Elective experience is regulatory racetrack medicine. It involves lameness extensively along with some medicicine and possibly emergency medicine. Drug testing in the test barn will be a part of this experience also. It is 5 days a week for approximately 6 hours/day and slightly more when drug testing is being involved, as it tends to run another 90 minutes after the races are over. This will occur at Miami Valley Racetrack near Cincinnati Ohio

Valley Veterinary Clinic is a mixed-animal practice serving a rural community. We are less about large agricultural farms and more geared towards hobbyists and homesteaders. We have a high community education and outreach focus and are looking for innovative ways to best serve the new kind of casual farm animal owner emerging in many rural and urban communities. We want to make sure that the three-goat dairies, backyard chickens, and single cow households are maintaining healthy animals. A significant portion of our large animal clinic is made up of horses and goats, with cows, chickens, camelids, sheep, and pigs also being seen on a regular basis. We provide routine and emergency care to our large animal clients, both in-house and with our mobile team.

Our small animal practice is fast-paced and high-volume. We provide full surgery days Monday through Friday, while running four exam rooms. We also allow for 5 to 12 urgent care patients per day, as well as two dental procedures. 

Students can expect a friendly, funny, welcoming environment with opportunities to see a wide variety of cases. They can help out in the barn as well as out on farm calls, assisting in procedures like equine dental floats, castrations, dystocias, lameness exams, radiographs, and sick-animal diagnostics. Over in small animal, observing surgery, dentals, helping with urgent care patients, or shadowing the exam room veterinarians are all options. We have veterinarians in all points of their careers here, willing and open to sharing their perspective with potential new veterinarians. Plus, our support staff is skilled, enthusiastic, fun, and only one of them is a little intimidating. 

2-4 week externship available with 4 impressive mentors in general small animal medicine, diagnostics and surgery.  Like New 5200sq facility with incredible support staff all focused on education.  Small town feel with BIG city medicine for our patients.  Lots of business mentorship available if candidate is interested too.

We are fully mobile mixed animal veterinary practice.  During the time with our practice the student will be traveling with the vet to the appointments.

The clinical rotation in zoological medicine and surgery at Zoo Miami is designed to give senior veterinary students hands-on introductory veterinary experience in clinical zoo animal medicine and surgery and exposure to a large variety of zoo animal species. Students will participate in zoo animal medicine, anesthesia, surgery, preventive medicine, clinical pathology, gross pathology, husbandry, nutrition, and conservation medicine. Students help prepare for and assist with planned medical procedures and emergencies, care of hospitalized animals and monitoring their status, necropsies, and participate in record-keeping, journal reviews, and topic rounds. At the conclusion of the externship, students also give a presentation to zoo staff about a predetermined topic or the results of a small project completed during the externship.

Student will be exposed to and allowed assistance with all levels of specialty reproductive program involving equine primarily and bovine secondarily, including routine breeding management, semen assessments, conformation and ultrasound evaluations, cytologies, uterine culture interpretation and treatment management and other aspects of breeding soundness exams, in vivo and in vitro embryo production and transfers, problem mare management and pregnancy monitoring. Additionally, student may be involved with bovine in vitro embryo production including ovum pick up and IVF. Dairy herd pregnancy checks with student ultrasound observations may also be involved. Opportunities may also involve the establishment of a bacterial culture system.