The Wildlife Health Center (WHC) provides medical, surgical, and pathology services to the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo. The externships take place at the Wildlife Health Center on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo. Students may also participate in clinical rotations at the Central Park, Queens, and Prospect Park zoos. The students will observe all facets of wildlife health care, including preventive medicine, daily medical and surgical care, clinical rounds, anesthesia, medical record-keeping, quarantine procedures, clinical pathology interpretation, and broader captive and free-ranging population conservation issues. During the rotation, students may be invited to prepare and present a topic to the Wildlife Health Center staff.

Externships expose students to a variety of clinical cases including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and terrestrial and marine mammals.

Be in your Junior year of veterinary school applying for rotations in your senior year.

Externships last three to eight weeks (preferably four) during the student's senior/clinical year.

Applications are accepted for clinical year externships from July 1-October 15 of your JUNIOR year. These applications will then be reviewed and students will be notified of the results in November of the current year.

https://oneworldonehealth.wcs.org/Training/Student-Externships.aspx

All application components must be submitted via the online application form except the letter of recommendation, which can be emailed directly to Ms. Meredith Barton at mbarton@wcs.org by the recommender, if preferred. Electronic materials must be received by 11:59 EDT on October 15.

These applications will then be reviewed and students will be notified of the results by the end of the current year. Due to the great interest in the program, applications cannot be accepted or processed at other times.