DVM Student Externship - [Animal Emergency Clinic and Intensive Care Facility]
Listed compensation
$18 per hour
The week · per this posting
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Job Description
Company Description
Serving Northwest Louisiana & East Texas, Animal Emergency Clinic and Intensive Care Facility that operates from 6pm to 8am throughout the week. Our purpose is to serve the community's pet owners in the event that an emergency occurs after Primary Care has closed. Our highly trained staff provides intensive care, emergency surgical procedures, and hospitalization options.
Animal Emergency Clinic is fully equipped with digital x-ray, ultrasonography, spacious surgical facilities with monitoring equipment, in house laboratory machines, oxygen therapy, and a cat friendly ward! This all helps to provide our patients with the best quality medicine at the time of their visit.
- This externship is paid at $18 per hour
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Job Description
We’re Looking For
- 1st through 4th Year Veterinary Students
- Compassionate, Team Player and Strong Communicator
- Students looking to enhance their education through real world experiences
We Offer Our Veterinary Student Externs
- Flexible Scheduling
- Paid Externship Hours
- Future Employment Opportunity Preferences
- DVM Mentor Network
- 1:1 Mentorship and Guidance
Qualifications
- Must be an Active Veterinary Student from an AVMA Accredited Institution.
- Additional Information
We Are a DRUG-Free, Smoke-Free, Equal Opportunity Employer.
Company Policy & Federal & State Laws Forbid Discrimination Because of Age, Color, Race, Religion, Sex, Disability, Sexual Orientation or National Origin
Compensation: up to USD 18 - hourly
Key Responsibilities
The extern will participate in emergency surgical procedures and provide intensive care to patients in a clinical setting. They will work alongside staff to gain real-world experience in emergency veterinary medicine.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Key Skills
Veterinary Medicine Career Context
The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Veterinary Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 100% have no call, 100% require no weekends.
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates DVM Student Externship - [Animal Emergency Clinic and Intensive Care Facility] at Alliance Animal Health a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Veterinary Medicine — ranked against 3,003 active Veterinary Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
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- No call
Living in Shreveport
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $154k
- Typical market rent
- $1,184/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 19 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 84.8
- State income tax
- Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.