Career Center

Privately owned and operated for over 70 years, Bailey Veterinary Clinic is a 10-doctor mixed animal practice comprised of 64 staff members in beautiful Roseburg, Oregon. The ideal community for any outdoor enthusiast, Roseburg is located in Umpqua Valley, Oregon’s best kept secret. It features rolling hills, old-growth forests, deep turquoise rivers, and mountains with unique geological features. It’s also the gateway to one of America’s most stunning destinations: Crater Lake National Park. We are also in the heart of southern Oregon’s wine country and home to Wildlife Safari, the second largest cheetah breeding facility in the world.

Here at Bailey Veterinary Clinic, our teaching mission goes beyond our own clinic and community. We have the mindset of pursuing the future of the industry and advancing the level of knowledge and care that is available to our patients and our clients. We believe that the greater we are able to support and grow the next generation of veterinarians, the greater their ability to prepare for their career ahead. Veterinary medicine can be tough at times. Having a strong community around you, can make a world of difference.

Third and fourth-year veterinary students practice their knowledge and clinical skills alongside the direction of our doctors. Our externships are available to students currently enrolled in an accredited college of veterinary medicine and provides intensive hands-on emergency, critical care, and GP medicine experience. Students will focus on learning how to effectively communicate with clients, diagnose a variety of conditions, develop treatment plans, and collaborate with support staff in a fast-paced environment.

This is a 40 hour per week commitment. Externships are generally scheduled for a two-week period of time and start every other Monday.  Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and positions are available throughout the year. Externs must be eligible to work in the United States.

• FLEXIBILITY- Choose how long your externship will be (typically 2-4 weeks)
• FOCUS- See a wide range of cases from large to small and emergency to GP.
• MENTORSHIP- You’ll get one on one mentoring from a variety of our amazing doctors.
• LOCATION- Close to beautiful hiking trails, beaches and wineries.
• HOUSING- Housing assistance may be available to students on an as-needed basis. More information on the requirements to qualify for housing and how to apply for it can be found on our externship application at our website.

If interested, please go to our website and fill out our "DVM Externship Interest Form" at www.baileyvet.com 

About Bailey Veterinary Clinic

We are a ten doctor, mixed animal practice located in Southwest Oregon. We are open Monday thru Sunday seeing daily appointments, critical care walk-ins and emergencies. No on-call and a rotataing 4-10 schedule for predictability. Our clinic is a family tradition that dates back to 1951...we start with CARE, and end with PRIDE.

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