💼 About This Role

You'll gain hands-on emergency medicine experience alongside credentialed veterinary technicians in a fast-paced ER environment. You'll pair up with an emergency credentialed veterinary technician for real-time mentoring and practice skills from your school's proficiency checklist. This unpaid externship offers flexibility in length and location.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Pair up with an emergency credentialed veterinary technician for mentoring
• Shadow and assist with triage, outpatient visits, diagnostics, and anesthesia
• Practice skills required by your school's proficiency checklist
• Experience teamwork and pace of emergency care

📋 Requirements

• Enrolled in an AVMA-accredited veterinary technology or nursing program
• Enrolled in a course that requires externship hours or skills
• Current rabies vaccination or titer required
• Ability to lift up to 25 kg on own and support up to 40 kg with assistance

✨ Nice to Have

• Curious by nature and eager to learn
• Empathetic and people-centric approach
• Sense of humility and ownership

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 📅 Flexible externship length based on your program requirements
• 📍 Choice of VEG hospital location based on availability
• 👩‍⚕️ Mentorship from a credentialed veterinary technician
• 🔬 Immersion in fast-paced emergency medicine
• 🚀 Future opportunities for employment after externship

🚩 Heads Up

• Unpaid externship
• Requires current rabies vaccination before starting