Summer Student Worker

About This Role

This role involves providing hands-on veterinary care as a DVM student, gaining experience in specialty and emergency medicine, and assisting veterinarians and technicians with patient care and client communication.

Responsibilities

• Possess knowledge of basic veterinary terminology and abbreviations
• Appropriately and safely restrain canine and feline patients
• Perform a basic physical examination to collect patient vital signs
• Triage patients over the phone and in-person
• Collect a basic history from a client
• Input patient data into the medical record system and document treatments
• Assist clinician and technicians through the exam and diagnostic workup process
• Effectively communicate discharge instructions to a client
• Support clinician and client through the euthanasia process
• Participate in the delivery of basic and advanced life support as directed by the clinician
• Perform phlebotomy
• Place intravenous catheter
• Accurately perform basic medical math
• Administer subcutaneous fluids
• Administer SQ, IM, or IV injections
• Operate basic equipment including fluid pumps, syringe pumps, SpO2 monitor, ETCO2 monitor, indirect blood pressure monitors
• Run basic in-house diagnostic tests including CBC, chemistry panel, urinalysis, coagulation profiles, blood gases, and process slides for cytologic interpretation
• Obtain diagnostic quality radiographs using proper techniques and personal protective equipment
• Perform placement of indwelling urinary catheter, bandage application, endotracheal intubation, anesthesia monitoring, and assist in advanced procedures (if prior experience or advanced curriculum)

Requirements

• Must be a full-time student enrolled in an AVMA accredited DVM/VMD program
• Must be available for a minimum of 8 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks during May – September

Qualifications

• full-time student enrolled in an AVMA accredited Doctor of Veterinary Medicine/veterinary medical doctor training program
• No prior emergency or specialty medicine experience is required, but animal experience is preferred.

Nice to Have

• Prior animal experience

Benefits