Vet student career opportunities

[anonp-vet]

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Hello, thank you in advance for your feedback.

I am currently a first year vet student with interests in continued education through a small animal surgery or critical care route. I’m possibly even interested in academia.

I currently work one shift a week at a local ER and Specialty hospital with continued education opportunities. They unfortunately have been experiencing a much lower case load due to many other emergency hospitals opening nearby and may not be taking rotating interns in the future. They are however a very large corporate hospital with other hospitals that do have Rotating internships

I received an offer to work in my schools ECC department where the caseload is much higher. I would have to quite my other position to take this one as well. The biggest drawbacks to the school position being that I wouldn’t be allowed to be as hands-on and the pay would be worse by $7 an hour. Does anyone have any input as to what they believe would benefit me more in my future, or does it not really matter and I’m just overthinking this situation as a whole. Thank you!

 

[battie]

They unfortunately have been experiencing a much lower case load due to many other emergency hospitals opening nearby and may not be taking rotating interns in the future. They are however a very large corporate hospital with other hospitals that do have Rotating internships

This may be changing as we speak. A bunch of urgent care style clinics in the Denver Metro Area have closed within the last 3-6 months. My ER group was experiencing a slow down until the last few weeks. Now we've seen a huge jump.

It's quite possible these newer clinics may close in the next few years as new places tend to close first. Your ER very well may be the last man standing in the next few years.

I received an offer to work in my schools ECC department where the caseload is much higher. I would have to quite my other position to take this one as well. The biggest drawbacks to the school position being that I wouldn’t be allowed to be as hands-on and the pay would be worse by $7 an hour. Does anyone have any input as to what they believe would benefit me more in my future, or does it not really matter and I’m just overthinking this situation as a whole. Thank you!

I'm all for making the money, tbh. However, knowing you may want to specialize, working in the school ICU gives you the opportunity to network while making at least some money. @cdo96 is an ECC resident and can probably give you a better idea of which is better. But I would pick the school job for the networking and convenience.

 

[SkiOtter]

@cdo96 is an ECC resident and can probably give you a better idea of which is better. But I would pick the school job for the networking and convenience.

@MOOSEygoosey and @TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo as well

 

[cdo96]

Hello, thank you in advance for your feedback.

I am currently a first year vet student with interests in continued education through a small animal surgery or critical care route. I’m possibly even interested in academia.

I currently work one shift a week at a local ER and Specialty hospital with continued education opportunities. They unfortunately have been experiencing a much lower case load due to many other emergency hospitals opening nearby and may not be taking rotating interns in the future. They are however a very large corporate hospital with other hospitals that do have Rotating internships

I received an offer to work in my schools ECC department where the caseload is much higher. I would have to quite my other position to take this one as well. The biggest drawbacks to the school position being that I wouldn’t be allowed to be as hands-on and the pay would be worse by $7 an hour. Does anyone have any input as to what they believe would benefit me more in my future, or does it not really matter and I’m just overthinking this situation as a whole. Thank you!

This may be changing as we speak. A bunch of urgent care style clinics in the Denver Metro Area have closed within the last 3-6 months. My ER group was experiencing a slow down until the last few weeks. Now we've seen a huge jump.

It's quite possible these newer clinics may close in the next few years as new places tend to close first. Your ER very well may be the last man standing in the next few years.



I'm all for making the money, tbh. However, knowing you may want to specialize, working in the school ICU gives you the opportunity to network while making at least some money. @cdo96 is an ECC resident and can probably give you a better idea of which is better. But I would pick the school job for the networking and convenience.

meh can’t really go wrong either way. if one lets you do more things and make more money, do that. Vet student workers are a dime a dozen unfortunately. You may not end up wanting to do an internship at that hospital anyways (personally I love not having people who did tech work then doctor work there because they get… inbred).

Is there a dacvecc at the local hospital? If you want to do surgery or academia maaaaybe having strong academia letters will help, but some of these popular named specialists are writing bland LORs now with much less weight to them. If you can get a specialist at the local ER to write you a stronger letter, it’s a deal breaker.

Especially for $7/hour? That’s a lot of money!