Veterinary Clinical Externships & Student Shadows

MedVet’s veterinary externships are fantastic opportunity for 3rd and 4th year veterinary students in their clinical year to gain hands-on, clinical experience as part of their education. Our externships are designed to help meet requirements for academic programs and prepare you to make the right choices for your career.

Preclinical veterinary students have opportunities to experience MedVet’s environment as well.

Veterinary students in their first and second years should take advantage of our Student Shadowing options.

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About Externship Opportunities

✓ Benefit from a well-designed, structured clinical experience supervised by experienced emergency doctors and board-certified specialists
✓ Assist with the management of emergency, medical, and surgical cases
✓ Schedules can be flexible since most locations are open 24/7
✓ Participate in journal clubs, daily clinical rounds, formal rounds, and interact with MedVet specialists, residents, interns, and technicians
✓ Program duration varies, but most are two weeks
✓ Students are responsible for their own accommodations during the program

How to Apply

Please reach out directly by email to the contact listed below for your MedVet location preference (click the contact’s name for their email address). Please attach your resume in your email outreach.

Mahoning Valley: Jamie Paglia, DVM

Mandeville:Julia Fincher

Meridian: Laura Pell, VMD

Mobile: Cody Mannino

Mountain View: Monica Clare, VMD, DACVECC

New Orleans: Julia Fincher

Northern Utah: Holly Dougherty

Northern Virginia: Diane Wilson

Norwalk: Tara Manganiello

Pittsburgh: Joe Ielapi, DVM

Salt Lake City: Jordan Scherk, DVM, DACVECC

Silicon Valley: Solene Moreton, DVM

Toledo: Angie Heighton

Vancouver: Jeffrey Barnet

Student Shadow Experience

Our Student Shadow program is designed to give students interested in veterinary medicine the opportunity to see what happens in a specialty and emergency hospital.

About Student Shadow Opportunities

✓ Observe clinical procedures under the supervision of an experienced MedVet caregiver
✓ Opportunities generally include one, eight-hour shift per semester
✓ Hours are flexible for emergency, nursing, and critical care. Shadows for specialty departments are typically 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Student Shadow Experiences (Location Dependent)

– Anesthesia & Analgesia

– Avian & Exotics

– Cardiology

– Critical Care

– Dentistry & Oral Surgery

– Dermatology

– Emergency Medicine

– Internal Medicine

– Integrative Medicine

– Neurology & Neurosurgery

– Medical Oncology

– Ophthalmology

– Radiation Oncology

– Radiology

– Rehabilitation

– Surgery

How to Apply

Please reach out directly by email to the contact listed below for your MedVet location preference (click the contact’s name for their email address). Please attach your resume in your email outreach.

Akron: Melinda Klundt

Asheville: Laney Lambert

Boise: Brooke Quesnell

Campbell: Claire Donaldson

Chicago: Heather Bendishaw

Cincinnati: Amber Hart

Cleveland: Chanel White

Columbus: Katie Baker

Commerce: Valerie Wade

Dallas: Lucas Fults

Dayton: Peggy Metzger

Diley Hill: Brittany Hicks

Hilliard: Natalie Gillespie

Houston: Stacey Aubin, CVPM

Indianapolis: Kalen Guffin-Allen

Jupiter: Jennifer Laessig

Lexington: Sarah Nicely

Mahoning Valley: Katie Nevison

Mandeville:Kris Guffa

Meridian: Erica Brandt

Mobile: Teriana Ware

Mountain View: Kimberly Mclaughlin

New Albany: Brittany Hicks

New Orleans: Gabby Foster

Northern Utah: Brittanie Molenaar

Northern Virginia: Julia Rosenbluth

Norwalk: Tara Manganiello

Pittsburgh: Stephanie Cramer

Salt Lake City: Camille Berntsen

Silicon Valley: Terra Schropp, Travis Fries

Toledo: Jenee Ragland

Vancouver: Katelyn Collie