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Food Animal Elective

If you are interested, during your 4th year off-site elective experience, we provide a list of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine's previously approved locations.

If you choose not to work at any of the pre-approved sites, please find your own elective location and submit a request for approval through The College of Veterinary Medicine.

University of Georgia CVM Large Animal Hospital

Athens, GA

Type of Experience: Institiutional Externship in the Large Animal Hospital of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Minnesota Dairy On Farm Clinical Externship

St. Paul, MN

Description Dairy Education Center - Nicollet, MN
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Description Each spring the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine offers a two week elective in Large Animal Neonatology and Intensive Care Medicine at the New Bolton Center campus.  This clinical elective is open to veterinary students who have completed their preclinical training and who have a special interest in equine neonatology/perinatology and/or intensive care medicine.
VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

Blacksburg, VA

Description Food animal ambulatory externship through the VMRCVM Production Management Medicine Section. Details Associate Veterinarians and special expertise available Michael J. Reardon, DVM, PhD, VMC Director Educational Resources College resources Responsibilities Senior clerkship at CVM Student Supervision PMM ambulatory 40+ hrs/wk Housing No
Valley Mobile Veterinary Service, Inc.

Danville, PA

Description I am a solo practitioner that does about 75% dairy. The rest is divided up between small ruminants (7%), camelid (7%), cervid (7%), and beef (<5%). The practice is based out of my home and I have a full-time office/business manager. Room and board are provided in our home by a basement efficiency. The student would be able to go on all regularly scheduled visits and emergency calls, averaging anywhere from 3-8 stops in one 10-12-hour day.
Valley Veterinary Clinic, SC

Seymour, WI

Description 100% dairy practice. Details Associate Veterinarians and special expertise available 5 owners 5 associate DVM's Educational Resources Yes. Responsibilities Do all they want reproductively, nutritionally, with systems analysis, DC305, sick cow care, surgery, etc. Student Supervision 10 hours daily/7 days a week Housing Yes.
Vergennes Large Animal Associates

Vergennes, VT

Description Experience: Clinical dairy and food animal practice senior externship.
York Animal Hospital, Inc.

Bellevue, OH

Type of Experience: Large Animal experience with emphasis on swine and cattle.