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Securing My Veterinary Assistant Externship Within 3 Days

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By Rebecca Duerrwaechter
Yay! I secured my externship! I'm so excited to have been able to secure one so soon and so thankful. In this post I'm going to be talking about what I did during the process, including the externship packets I made for the veterinary clinics.


First:


  • Make a list of the veterinary clinics you would like to work at in your area. Find out their credentials and what services they offer.
  • Find out who the medical director is at every site and make sure to double and triple check. I checked on the clinic's website, with what is listed on the BBB, and I even checked facebook! At one site I still had the wrong doctor's name even after triple checking. 
  • Prepare your cover letter. Make sure to address the letter to the doctor you will be talking to. Also, triple check your spelling and grammatical errors and make sure to have at least two other people check them as well! I had two people check mine after I triple checked it and I still found a mistake. 
  • Update and triple check your resume. If you don't already have one, make one! 
  • Go on your PennFoster account, read through your externship packet (module 10), and print out necessary paperwork.



Make condensed packet for each veterinary clinic/hospital in a manila folder:


  1. Cover letter
  2. Resume
  3. Clinical supervisor letter from Penn Foster
  4. Externship site criteria
  5. Mentorship Aggreement
  6. Condensed version of clinical skills criteria


Drop off each packet:


  1. Go into the veterinary clinic prepared. Have a nice, neat, and clean appearance. 
  2. Go up to the front desk, introduce yourself, and ask how they are doing. Then, explain you are in the veterinary assistant program through Penn Foster and would like to speak to (medical director's name) about completing the externship portion of your studies at that clinic.
  3. If the medical director is busy and no one else is able to speak with you, ask if they can make sure the medical director gets the packet. Always make sure to address the doctor and everyone else in the clinic by her or his name.
  4. Do this for every clinic.

This is what I did and I secured my externship in two days. I went to a few hospitals on the 22nd of August and the rest on the 23rd of August. By the night of the 24th I received a call from a hospital offering me an externship.
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