Canine​/Feline Fellowship in Community Practice

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University is accepting applications for our  Canine/Feline Fellowship position in a community practice setting. This unique 2-year program is based at Tufts at Tech, an access-to-care teaching clinic that provides final year veterinary students with primary care experience and high school students the opportunity to achieve certification as veterinary assistants. The fellowship is designed to prepare a practitioner for the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP) specialty certification in Canine and Feline Practice.

See the ABVP website for more information about board certification.

Tufts at Tech Community Veterinary Clinic was established in 2012 as a collaboration between Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and Worcester Technical High School to offer affordable pet care for financially qualifying members of the local community while providing an excellent learning environment. Tufts at Tech sees a variety of first opinion canine and feline medical, surgical, and dental cases as well as referrals from local general and emergency practices, with a caseload of approximately 6,000 cases per year.

The successful candidate will join a team of four faculty members (two boarded ABVP Canine/Feline diplomates and two faculty with 20+ years of practice experience), three certified veterinary technicians (one boarded in dentistry), three certified veterinary assistants, a client services liaison, and a community medicine intern. The clinic culture is that of a small family-type atmosphere with a positive focus on work/life balance and supporting each other's well-being.

The Fellowship would be an excellent steppingstone to pursue a career in academia or to increase one's confidence in managing difficult surgical and medical primary care cases. The Fellow will play a key role in case management, coaching Tufts veterinary students on their primary care clinical rotation and supervising junior and senior students in the Worcester Technical High School Veterinary Assistant program, accredited by NAVTA.

Tufts at Tech is a 20-minute drive from Cummings School's Foster Hospital for Small Animals on the Grafton campus. Opportunities to participate in specialty rotations are available at the on the main campus in emergency and critical care, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, internal medicine, neurology, cardiology, ophthalmology, dermatology, anesthesiology, diagnostic imaging, behavior, and pathology.