Vet Student Extern — Urgent Care & Spay​/Neuter; Stipend

Veterinary Externship — Aldine Westfield Animal Clinic (Houston, TX)
🔹 $1,000 Travel Stipend Available (clinical year students)
🔹 High-Volume Surgery + Urgent Care Experience
🔹 Hands-On Training | Supportive Teaching Environment

Clinic Overview:

Aldine Westfield Animal Clinic is a fast-paced, full-service small animal hospital offering wellness, surgical, dental, and urgent care services. We’re passionate about mentorship and love welcoming veterinary students.

Since 2011, our AAHA-accredited hospital has proudly served the North Houston community with a commitment to high-quality, compassionate veterinary care. Supported by a highly skilled team and bilingual staff members, we provide exceptional care to our patients and clients while cultivating a positive, supportive workplace where teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.

About Our Hospital

• Collaborative, multi-doctor team culture focused on teamwork, mentorship, and quality medicine

• Highly skilled support staff with a strong 2:1 technician-to-DVM ratio

• Dedicated surgical suite equipped with comprehensive patient monitoring

• Full in-house laboratory

Externship Highlights:

✔ Hands-on experience from day one
✔ Spay/neuter surgery participation (based on skill and comfort)
✔ Urgent care exposure alongside routine wellness care
✔ Involvement in patient intake, physical exams, diagnostics, and treatment plans
✔ Supportive, teaching-oriented DVMs
✔ Opportunities to strengthen client communication skills

Special Features:

High-volume spay/neuter surgeries 2x per week

Urgent care cases seen regularly—great for fast-paced medical learning

Dental cleanings and basic procedures

Comfortable, welcoming team culture focused on student growth

Details:
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Location:

Houston, TX
🕒 Duration: typically 2 weeks minimum up to 4 weeks (flexible with student schedules)
💵 Stipend: $1,000 for clinical year students
📅 Open to: DVM students

National Veterinary Associates (NVA) is a leading North American pet health care company with nearly 1,300 locations spanning general practice veterinary hospitals, Ethos emergency and specialty hospitals, and pet resorts and equine veterinary care. With approximately 40,000 team members, we care for pets and support pet families in communities across the United States and Canada. Our purpose is to give pets and the people who love them more quality years together, and our mission is to make care more personal, easy and accessible while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life.

Across NVA, we support our teams with the resources, expertise and opportunities they need to deliver exceptional care and help shape the future of veterinary and pet care.

Purpose:
Give pets and the people who love them more quality years together

Mission:
Transform the pet family experience to be personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life.

Values:
Care Deeply, Do What’s Right, One Team, Own It, Shape What’s Next

One NVA:
Bringing General Practice & Ethos Together

NVA is built to make care personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine across every stage of a pet’s life.

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