Veterinary Technician Student Externship - Oak Brook, IL

Veterinary Emergency Group
Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Full-time

WHO WE ARE

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States.

Our mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most. We are revolutionizing emergency medicine with a customer first mentality and a true, employee-centric work environment.

TALENT + CULTURE AT VEG

At VEG, we want people and their pets to feel safe, secure, and valued; we want our employees to feel the same way. What we’re aiming to achieve on the customer side is equivalent in nature to what we want for our employees : to have the best experience possible.

With the highest NPS score in our industry, we’re ready to ensure that VEG is always the place where the best and brightest in the emergency world not only want to work, but stay and grow.

For our customers and their pets, we strive to find a way to say, yes. We do the same and more for our teams. In fact, VEG is one of this year’s nominees for INC Magazine’s Best Places to Work!

ABOUT THE EXTERNSHIP

VEG’s Veterinary Technician Student Externship Program gives vet tech students hands-on experience in emergency medicine while working alongside our credentialed, emergency veterinary technicians.

Students will focus on honing their emergency skills including obtaining patient vitals, processing laboratory samples, caring for hospitalized patients, triaging emerging cases, and collaborating in a fast-paced environment.

If you’re as interested in emergency medicine as we are, we’d love to have you!

Note : This is an unpaid externship and rabies vaccinations are required unless your school's rabies mitigation policy allows you to be unvaccinated and still handle unvaccinated pets.

  • Flexibility : YOU Choose the length of your externship to meet your school’s requirements
  • Location : YOU choose where you'd like to extern (depending on hospital bandwidth)
  • Mentorship : YOU will be supported by a credentialed veterinary technician
  • Focus : YOU will be fully-immersed in what emergency medicine truly entails

REQUIREMENTS

Currently enrolled in an AVMA accredited veterinary technology or veterinary nursing program (or one actively seeking accreditation) and will be in a class that requires externship hours and / or skills.

This application is not for veterinary students or veterinary assistant students - only veterinary technology or veterinary nursing students .

  • Your externship must need to begin within 6 months of application.
  • You must be vaccinated for rabies unless your school's rabies mitigation policy allows unvaccinated students to handle unvaccinated animals.
  • 30+ days ago
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