Externships

Subject to Change – not all experiences available across all timeframes

• Large Animal Internal Medicine
• Large Animal Surgery
• Large Animal Emergency Medicine & Surgery
• Small Animal Anesthesia
• Small Animal Ophthalmology
• Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery
• Small Animal Internal Medicine
• Small Animal Nutrition
• Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
• Laboratory Animal Clerkship
• Practice Management
• Avian Histopathology*
• Avian Medicine*
• Large & Production Animal Farm Practice/Field Services (LOCATED IN TIFTON, GA)
• Anatomic Pathology*
• Wildlife Population Health (SCWDS)*

*requires faculty approval

The UGA CVM rotation schedule is set up in three-week blocks. Most of our rotations require attendance during all three weeks of the block to be considered for acceptance. All in-hospital rotations require visiting externs to begin on the FIRST day of a UGA block. We are unable to accommodate externs during UGA Blocks 9, 10, 11, or 12 (roughly October through December).

We begin accepting visiting student applications for the 2025-2026 Academic Year in May of 2025.

Please reference our 2025-2026 Block Calendar for a complete rotation schedule. Applications must be received in their entirety and approved a minimum of 60 days before your anticipated start date.

To apply, please complete our information gathering survey.

Once your survey is received, you will be sent an email confirming or denying your schedule and rotation requests within five business days. If your application is accepted, the process for submitting your supplemental information will be outlined.

Students visiting from AVMA Accredited Veterinary programs (with full-service teaching hospitals) are permitted to visit for up to six weeks without paying a fee. If your institution is an AVMA Accredited Veterinary Program but does not have a full-service teaching hospital or is not an AVMA accredited institution (and we do not have a signed MOU from your home institution), you will be charged out-of-state tuition per week for this externship (est. @$1200.00 per week). Students from non-accredited programs that do not have a MUO with the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine that wish to observe only will be charged a $100 application processing fee.

Please see our students seeking clinical rotation externship experience policy for full details.

• Proof of personal health insurance coverage
• Proof of student professional liability insurance coverage (PLIT)
• Proof of appropriate rabies immunoprophylaxis
• Immunization records
• A signed waiver of acknowledgment of risk liability (to be provided by UGA)
• Signature on the application form acknowledging good academic and professional standing from the associate dean of academic affairs (or equivalent) at your home institution.
• A copy of your passport & visa information (if international)
• Visiting externs will be required to purchase a $30 UGA Id/Prox access badge.