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A centralized hospital is simply a coordination and collaboration of quality, essential medical services.

In 1968, Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital was established with that goal in mind — to provide necessary advanced care options for your animals, including emergency and 24-hour care. Modeled after the human medical concept, Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital (MVH) allowed affiliated doctors the ability to offer a level of care not previously available on a local level. Today, Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital provides affiliated general practitioners the ability to offer, as part of their local practice, the benefits of a large, state-of-the-art hospital:

• Advanced surgical suites
• 24-hour intensive care unit
• Superior diagnostic imaging
• Consultation on cases with Board Certified Specialists
• In-house regional diagnostic laboratory (IDEXX)

What does that mean for you? Take the case of Fluffy, for instance, a middle-aged dog who was brought to her MVH-affiliated veterinarian for vomiting. After a thorough physical exam is performed at the office, her veterinarian notes that more extensive testing may be needed. Referred to the hospital, Fluffy’s MVH-affiliated general veterinarian would still oversee her case, possibly ordering hospitalization with intravenous fluids, laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging. If necessary, her MVH-affiliated veterinarian could call on the expertise of one or more of the many board-certified specialists practicing in the hospital. Fluffy’s veterinarian is able to offer her superior diagnosis and care because he’s part of a centralized hospital.

If you’re looking for an Externship or Internship and are interested in any of the following, then our program is the one for you.

• Experiencing a large, efficient, private specialty practice
• High caseload leading to case variety and learning opportunities
• Board-certified specialists in Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Avian, Surgery, Neurology, Oncology and Ophthalmology.
• An array of advanced diagnostic equipment including MRI, CT, Vimago, Fluoroscopy, high-level ultrasounds and echocardiography.
• A teaching hospital, with a robust and active in-house education program, including twice-weekly didactic lectures, weekly journal clubs (surgery, neurology, internal medicine), book review clubs, every-other month pathology conferences, monthly morbidity and mortality rounds, and surgical residency classes.
• Experiencing a high case load, with an emphasis on education; with residencies, specialty internships, and general internships.

Externship visits are coordinated by Jeni Smith, Internship-Externship Administrator.  Please email [email protected] for more information.