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.

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.

– Akron: Shane F. Dewitt, DVM, DACVIM (LAIM)

– Asheville: Jacob Klos

– Boise: Sami Pederson, DVM, MS, DACVO®

– Campbell: Stephanie La Plume, DVM

– Chicago: Alina Teslenko, DVM

– Cincinnati: Jenny Wells, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)

– Cleveland: Diane Wilson

– Columbus: Joe Ielapi, DVM,Tricia McLinden

– Commerce: Angie Heighton

– Dallas: Erika Haschke Pickens, DVM, DACVIM (SAIM)

– Dayton: Anna Bentley, DVM

– Diley Hill: Tiffany Elgersma-Smith

– Hilliard: Mikaela Disbennett, DVM, Emily Fagundo, DVM

– Houston: Stacey Aubin, CVPM

– Indianapolis: Kalen Guffin-Allen

– Jupiter: Toni Yang

– Lexington: DeAnna Cotton, MPH, DVM

– Mahoning Valley: Jamie Paglia, DVM

– Mandeville: Julia Fincher, DVM

– Meridian: Laura Pell, VMD

– Mobile: Cody Mannino

– Mountain View: Stephanie La Plume, DVM

– New Orleans: Julia Fincher

– Northern Utah: Holly Dougherty

– Northern Virginia: Diane Wilson

– Norwalk: Tara Manganiello

– Pittsburgh: Jamie Paglia, 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