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Has anyone applied to any specialty hospitals that have accepted them for an externship? COVID is REALLY making me pull my hair out!
yupWhen you say specialty, are you talking with fully boarded doctors?
Hey tried to message you and couldn’t. What specialties are you looking for?
Are you willing/able to travel? I have several that are letting me extern for rotations.Has anyone applied to any specialty hospitals that have accepted them for an externship? COVID is REALLY making me pull my hair out!
Yes!Are you willing/able to travel? I have several that are letting me extern for rotations.
Hello! What specialty services are you interested in? My hospital will be restarting the extern program shortly. DM me for details!Hi! Did you find any that were accepting externs? If so would you mind DMing me? Thank you in advance!
Also very late to the thread but just for more information, I work at a busy referral/emergency hospital and we have continued to take fourth-year externs during covid. Where our externs go in the hospital generally depends on what type of externship they want (surgery, ER, IM, etc.). But as best I know we haven't cut back externships.
We do not (and have never) taken pre-vet 'shadowers', though. We're just too busy/chaotic for someone without any medical training.
For pre-vets, hours spent with a veterinarian are required to apply, so definitely worth it. I would suggest getting a job as an assistant though over just shadowing just so you have some money on the side as well.Are externships worth doing if you are in your first or second year of vet school, or pre vet?
agreed! I worked a non vet job for extra dollahs and just hung out and shadowed for learning experience. It's not that you don't get good experience as an assistant, but it's really nice to be able to ask a bunch of questions, ping from case to case with multiple doctors, etc.On the flip side, I actually preferred being a shadow over an assistant. I got to go into every appointment and watch every surgery and wasn’t limited by needing to do other tasks like cleaning. I had a job elsewhere and shadowed on some of my off time and that worked out better for me.
At my non-vet job I even got paid more than I did when I was hired as an assistant at the clinic I was shadowing at 😅agreed! I worked a non vet job for extra dollahs and just hung out and shadowed for learning experience. It's not that you don't get good experience as an assistant, but it's really nice to be able to ask a bunch of questions, ping from case to case with multiple doctors, etc.
For pre-vets, hours spent with a veterinarian are required to apply, so definitely worth it. I would suggest getting a job as an assistant though over just shadowing just so you have some money on the side as well.
For 1st and 2nd years, it depends on the student. For those that want to specialize, it would be completely worth it because of the networking opportunity.