Externship Opportunities 

Your Future in Veterinary Medicine Starts Here

Take your veterinary training beyond the classroom with a hands-on externship at Albemarle Animal Clinic. We offer an immersive, structured experience that builds clinical confidence and real-world skill—phase by phase.

Why Choose Us
Your Externship
What You’ll Gain
Ready to Step In?

Why Choose Us?

Our clinics serve a diverse, active patient base and provide a high-volume, high-learning environment. With guidance from experienced veterinarians, you’ll move from the basics to advanced clinical practice in five focused phases.

The Five Phases of Your Externship

Get grounded in the fundamentals. Learn our vaccine protocols, injection sites, and parasiticide routines. You’ll gain hands-on experience administering treatments and managing preventive care in a busy clinical setting.

Step into the exam room with confidence. Learn to conduct thorough wellness exams on cats and dogs—ears to tail. Practice clinical communication, assess body condition, identify early signs of disease, and document findings like a pro.

Move beyond wellness to medicine. In this phase, you’ll learn how to evaluate a sick patient, identify key symptoms, and decide which diagnostics to pursue. Develop your diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making skills under the mentorship of seasoned veterinarians.

Scrub in and get surgical. Begin with routine feline spays and neuters, then progress to small dog procedures, and finally large dog sterilizations. Learn sterile technique, surgical prep, anesthesia monitoring, and postoperative care.

Veterinary care is both science and service. In the final phase, you’ll get insight into the business side of veterinary practice—client communication, pricing, scheduling, records, inventory, and team collaboration. Learn what it takes to make a clinic run.

What You’ll Gain

  • Real clinical skills, not just observation

  • One-on-one mentorship from experienced DVMs

  • Exposure to a wide range of cases—from routine to complex

  • Confidence in both medicine and communication

  • A deeper understanding of veterinary business operations

Ready to Step In?

Whether you’re still in vet school or exploring clinical interests, the externship at West Stanley and Albemarle Animal Clinics is designed to accelerate your development and prepare you for practice.

Apply now and take the next step toward becoming the veterinarian you’re meant to be.

Externship/Preceptorship Application

Essential Information

We're excited that you're interested in joining us for an externship or preceptorship. Please fill out the following to help us get to know you better.
Name(Required)
Are you potentially interested in employment with us after graduation?(Required)

Getting to Know You

Career Goals & Interests

Are you interested in practice ownership in the future?(Required)
(Example: surgery, emergency, internal medicine, exotics, dermatology, client education, etc.)
Thank you for your interest in Albemarle Animal Clinic. We look forward to learning more about you and potentially working together to help you grow in your veterinary career!
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