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Akane Naka, Project Manager | October 17, 2006
Besides daily clinical rounds, weekly resident-lead case discussions and department run journal clubs are conducted. A three year cycle of reading assignments and quarterly "mock" written, practical and oral exmaninations are part of the re-structured program.
Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine and Surgery Residency

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The Animal Medical Center is offering a 2-year residency in Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine and Surgery. The residency will provide intensive training in the medicine and surgery of exotic pets, including caged birds, reptiles, ferrets, rabbits, and rodents. The Avian and Exotic Pet Service consists of four full and part-time staff members, two residents and two rotating interns from the small animal medicine and surgery internship. Three staff members are certified by the ABVP in Avian Medicine and the fourth is board certified by ACLAM. The service is a 7-day per week service with an annual outpatient caseload of 4,500-5,000 cases and an average in-hospital caseload of 8-12 cases/day. The caseload consists of approximately 50% birds, 30% rabbits and ferrets, 10% reptiles and 10% miscellaneous small mammals.
The Animal Medical Center is a full-service hospital with 83 medical, surgical, and research veterinarians and board-certified specialists in the areas of internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, oncology, surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, dermatology, radiology, and pathology. The Avian and Exotic Pet Service is fully integrated with all other services at the AMC. Continuing education is emphasized with lectures 3 times weekly in all areas of small animal medicine and surgery. Weekly histopathology rounds reviewing exotic animal cases are conducted with the staff pathologists from the AMC. A monthly journal club is held in conjunction with the veterinarians at the Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx Zoo) and veterinarians practicing exotic animal medicine in the metropolitan New York area.
An internship or one year's experience in small animal medicine and surgery or zoo animal medicine is strongly recommended. Appointment to the second year is contingent upon satisfactory performance in the first year. Please send three letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, and a letter of intent to Dr. Katherine Quesenberry, The Animal Medical Center, 510 East 62nd Street, New York, New York 10021.
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