Offsite Electives

At Lindsay Wildlife Experience, externs will gain experience in both wildlife and captive animal medicine. The first few days will consist of shadowing the veterinarians or technicians in both areas, and externs are expected to become familiar with the basics, including anatomy, triage, and handling. Depending on student performance, subsequent weeks will allow the student to hone their skills through assisting the veterinarians. There may also be opportunities to attend didactic classes and participate in journal club. 

Veterinary students may also assume primary case responsibilities, including triage examinations, forming treatment plans, and performing common procedures (including fecals, manual WBC, phlebotomy, and time permitting, laceration repairs, and surgical procedures) under the direct supervision of one of the veterinarians or registered technicians. These will depend on the caseload as well as the student’s preferences.

Our caseload at LWE consists of birds (the majority of our patients, including songbirds and birds of prey), mammals (including squirrels, opossums, raccoons, bobcats, coyotes, and beavers), and herps (snakes, lizards, salamanders, and frogs).

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North Andover Haverhill Animal Hospital (NAHAH) is a state-of-the-art surgical referral and wellness center and is a full-service animal hospital complete with advanced diagnostic instrumentation, digital x-ray, in-house laboratory, fully equipped intensive care unit, onsite and online pharmacies, and much more. Our advanced diagnostic and surgical capabilities enable us to provide the highest standards of veterinary medical, surgical, and dental care for our patients. The student will have the opportunity to shadow doctors in exam rooms and surgeries and immerse themselves in the day-to-day operations of a busy medium-sized veterinary practice. The student will gain exposure in both general practice medicine as well as routine and advanced surgery.

The student will have the opportunity to work directly with each of our four doctors throughout the rotation. While in the small animal practice they will work with the attending doctor seeing in-house appointments for routine check-ups and emergent issues as well as in surgery performing both routine and complicated procedures. They will have the opportunity to work with our large animal ambulatory vets while on calls for cattles, horses, and small ruminants performing a variety of routine and emergency work on the farm. 

Banfield Pet Hospital’s Veterinary Affairs team offers student research externship positions during their clinical rotation year. The Veterinary Affairs team is responsible for identifying opportunities to improve the quality of veterinary care provided in Banfield hospitals and developing and implementing systems to enact those improvements. This work is done primarily through analysis of data from the centralized electronic medical record (PetWare®) database, use of other internal and external information sources including other internal electronic reporting, record review, peer-reviewed literature, hospital team member and client surveys, subject matter expert consultations, and other veterinary and pet care industry partnerships. The work of the Veterinary Affairs team has led to evidence-based changes to practice policy, identification of new equipment and product needs, and development of hospital and client materials, to name a few.
The student extern will work on a project while also receiving training and mentorship from the Veterinary Affairs team and will be working at Banfield’s Central Team Support (national headquarters) in Vancouver, Washington (USA). The extern will have the opportunity to fully engage in projects that support Banfield’s Veterinary Medical Quality program, focusing on patient care and outcome(s). Duties may include (but are not limited to) literature reviews, medical record reviews, and analyses of pet population health data (e.g., descriptive statistics). Student projects will be based on Banfield practice priorities and needs at the time of the externship and student skillsets. Students with knowledge and interests in companion animal health, epidemiology/population health management, electronic health data, applied clinical research and veterinary medical quality will be given preference.
In addition to active participation in project and other team meetings, other major components of the externship include learning about corporate veterinary practice, career options outside of the clinical environment by meeting with veterinarians working on different teams within the Banfield organization and learning about their career paths, and other Mars Veterinary Health and Petcare business units. Externships close out with an oral presentation of project findings and recommendations to the Veterinary Affairs team.
 

The Maschhoffs offers a full-time summer internship and/or unpaid externship(s) for 4th year veterinary students. Veterinary students will learn how the TML health team implements core strategies through collaboration with regional operations.

Students will have the opportunity to ride along with veterinarians as they complete farm visits, diagnostics, and biosecurity audits, as well as participate in meetings. Some experiences can also be tailored to allow students hands-on experiences with production, nutrition, transport, genetic, and research teams.

The student will work one on one with the staff doctors primarily Dr. Kiani and Dr. Colón.  The student will work through internal medicine cases including abdominal ultrasounds with a board certified internist.  The student will learn how to prioritize diagnostics and explain bloodwork and urine results to the owners.  The student will evaluate radiographs and learn how to explain her findings to the owners.  The student will scrub into surgeries with staff doctors and take part directly in all surgeries performed.  The student will be exposed to and learn how to perform gingival flaps and dental extractions on both dogs and cats.  The student will learn about fluid therapy and intravenous medications needed to treat hospitalized patients.  The student will work with a visiting board certified cardiologist to perform echocardiograms and EKGs.  The student will directly take part in triaging and treating emergency cases alongside the staff doctors.  The student will also perform wellness care including vaccines, heartworm testing, FeLV/FIV testing, etc. 

Externs will shadow and observe our ER doctors, help out doctors & staff, scrub into surgery, assist with medical records, and communicate with clients.

Externs may see bite wounds, choking or respiratory distress, toxin ingestion, shock, DKA, heat stroke, reproductive emergencies, seizures, pancreatitis, and hemoabdomen.

Small Animal general practice in urban area of San Diego.  Will allow intern to shadow Drs. on surgical and medical cases, as well as observe our mobile specialists (ultrasound, cardiology, orthopedic, and soft tissue surgery) depending on scheduling.

TAHO is a non-profit animal welfare organiation/hospital with a focus on providing high-quality veterinary medical and surgical care to patients, regardless of the family's financial situation. We provide a full-range of services to small companion animals and some exotics, including: outpatient wellness, urgent and emergency care; inpatient care and hospitalization; high-volume spay/neuter; routine and emergency surgery; dentistry; digital radiology.

Our students have the option to focus on one area of practice or rotate between departments to further their knowledge and experience. Under the supervision and guidance of our veterinarians, students can be involved and submerged in the entire DVM experience and patient care process. Students will have the ability to perform physical examinations, assist in diagnosis, assist in the development and managenent of medical treatment plans, assist with routine and emergency surgery, and much more. 

Our hospital offers a wide variety of opportunity and insight into the small animal practice of veterinary medicine. Additionally, as a non-profit, we partner with over sixty reputable animal rescue organizations as their primary medical provider. These partnerships provide an area for students with an interest in shelter medicine and public health to explore this side of veterinary medicine as well. 

Student: minimum of 2 per rotation, maximum of 4.

Duration: 2 weeks (Monday to the following Friday). Most students arrive the Sunday before the first Monday of the rotation

Radiology imaging opportunities include daily rounds (1-3 hours/day) on basic and advanced radiographs, CT and ultrasound. Ultrasound cases include echocardiographic and non-echo ultrasound (e.g., abdomen, nonecho-thoracic). These rounds are case based and include emergency imaging considerations.

Practical hands-on ultrasound imaging instruction is performed everyday (1-2 hours/day) on the 4 family dogs. 

One set of rounds (2 hours) will be expressly on ECG interpretation presented by ACVECC specialist (Mo)