Matthew McMillan BVM&S, DipECVAA, MRCVS
Principal Clinical Anaesthetist
Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital
Department of Veterinary Medicine
University of Cambridge
Madingley Road
Cambridge
CB3 0ES
UK
December 2015
Dear veterinary students,
Small Animal Externships April/June 2016.
We
have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic and hardworking veterinary students to undergo a
1st July 2015
rotating externship in small animal clinical studies for up to 10 weeks in The Queen’s Veterinary
School Hospital, University of Cambridge. The externship period runs from Sunday 10 April 2016
until Sunday 19 June 2016. Our multidisciplinary hospital has European Diplomates in each of our
services (soft tissue surgery, orthopaedics, internal medicine, neurology and neurosurgery, oncology,
diagnostic imaging, anaesthesia and clinical and anatomical pathology). Externs will rotate through
multiple services and will assist in the out of hours care of hospitalised cases and emergencies which
will include some night work.
We expect our externs to become integral members of the hospital team and hope they will get
actively involved with case management and the running of the hospital. We are looking for
dedicated and knowledgeable students in or about to enter their final year of studies (the
externships are most suited to students just before graduating). Excellent spoken and written English
is a pre-requisite as you will be expected to communicate to staff and students about clinical cases
throughout the programme. Ideally we are looking for 5-7 externs to join us for the entire 10 week
period, but we would consider people available for between 4-8 weeks if the selected weeks are
situated at the beginning and the end of the period. Basic accommodation can be provided (rent
free).
Our own students will not be rotating through clinics at this time (they are on their elective period)
so this will give externs an excellent opportunity to work alongside hospital clinicians and residents
in a teaching hospital environment.
If you are interested in applying for one of these positions please fill in the attached application form
and get a member of your university to provide an academic (ideally clinical) reference that outlines
your suitability for the program. Please also indicate which services you favour rotating through as
although this cannot be guaranteed we will try to accommodate extern requests. Finally, please note
that a small administration fee will be charged to successful applicants.
The deadline for the initial round of applications is 31 January 2016. However additional spaces may
come up so late applications may also be successful. All applications can be returned to vetextern@vet.cam.ac.uk also copying me (mwm32@cam.ac.uk).
Kind regards,
Matt
Matthew McMillan
APPLICATION FOR EXTERNSHIP AT THE QUEEN’S VETERINARY SCHOOL HOSPITAL (SMALL ANIMALS)
Name:
Email Address:
Nationality:
University:
Expected date of graduation/qualification:
English language qualification e.g. IELTS (not necessary for students in UK/Ireland/USA):
Please include breakdown of scores attained
Dates available:
☐ All (from Sunday 10 April 2016 until Sunday19 June 2016)
☐ From _________________ until _________________
Personal statement: (No more than 250 words)
Why do you want to have an externship at the QVSH?
Experience in veterinary practice to date: (List practices and activities/responsibilities)
What skills have you developed?
Preferred rotations (up to three e.g. internal medicine/orthopaedics):
☐ No preference (you will be allocated a mixture of surgical, medical and other rotations)
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Clinical referee (Name and position):
Email address of referee: