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Is Your Practice on “The List”?

October 20, 2015 — AASV Staff

Does your veterinary practice provide opportunities for veterinary students to observe and practice the skills needed to become a swine veterinarian? If the answer is “yes,” please make sure you’re on “The List.” Veterinary students rely on practitioners in the field to provide practical, hands-on experience, and one way they find out about opportunities in swine practice is by checking the AASV’s list of internships and externships at www.aasv.org/internships/index.php.

Thanks to recent efforts by AASV’s Alternate Student Delegate, Emily Mahan-Riggs, and Webmaster David Brown, the internship/externship list has been updated and expanded. With enhanced searching capabilities and the inclusion of more detailed information in the listings, students are better able to search and identify opportunities matching their goals, thus reducing the number of queries to busy practitioners.

The opportunities on “The List” are divided into two categories: 1) Internships, loosely defined as experiences lasting 8-14 weeks, often in the summer, and often paid; or 2) Externships, which are generally 1-2 weeks in length, often unpaid, and typically involving 4th-year veterinary students. The availability of lodging and/or transportation, and the opportunity to work on a research project are additional factors that are noted within the listings.

If your practice or company is already on the internship/externship list, thank you! Please contact AASV if changes to your listing are indicated. If you are not on the list, please contact AASV (aasv@aasv.org) to provide your information. Veterinary students who are interested in swine practice will appreciate it!

Don’t forget, the AASV Foundation provides externship grants of up to $500 per student for participating in a 2-week or longer swine externship with an AASV-member practitioner. See www.aasv.org/students/externgrant.htm for details, and encourage eligible veterinary students to take advantage of this assistance.

AASV staff contributed to or researched this story. For more information about the AASV, please visit http://www.aasv.org/.