Gaining surgical experience in a shelter environment is essential for any veterinary student. The more we practice how to use the spay hook or how to do intradermal sutures, the more confident we will become. Here I wanted to share some great shelter medicine opportunities to gain more surgical experience or explore this field. ASPCA […]
Scheduling Externships
The start of fourth year is starting to become ominously close. As a first-year, it felt like this day would never happen. But now that it gets closer and closer, I feel less ready to step out of the classroom and start acting like a real doctor. At the time of this writing, I have […]
5 Tips to be a Successful Extern
I am currently on a marathon of equine-specific externships that are (nearly) consecutive, totaling 6 block rotations, that are keeping me off-campus for almost 6 months. As someone looking to pursue an equine internship and residency, I picked practices that have internship programs I am interested in, that practice the type of medicine I am […]
