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The day-to-day schedule when you are new is structured around training. Of course, this changes as you gain confidence and experience and have spent time with our doctors and staff. When a new doctor starts with us, they spend approximately 2 days with Samantha, our training director, to perform your orientation, collect all necessary paperwork including tax forms, go over the handbook, and begin getting you comfortable with our hospital software.

After this process, you will spend a full week shadowing our doctors. We assign you to a doctor each day, so you have clear direction. We will expose you to surgeries during that time as well. After a few days, we may have you see boarders with one of our doctors coaching and giving general advice. You will receive as much time from our doctors as you need, ask questions, and get to know the staff.

When the first week is over, you will begin to see routine appointments. You will receive ongoing mentorship throughout the day. You will meet with a senior doctor for a one-on-one training session weekly. After each session, your Employee Progress Report is updated. The Employee Progress Report is a very structured training program broken down into 12 months sections of training. Just as an FYI, we have some doctors doing ACLs, Foreign body surgery, and many other challenging surgeries by the end of their 1st year. Not only can they do them, but they are good at them.

Depending on what materials are covered, the senior doctor will clear you to see certain types of cases when you are comfortable. Your personalized Employee Progress Report is filled out at least weekly; there is an “Exposed” section, a “With help” section, and an “Independent section.” For instance, if your mentor has gone over how to handle an ear infection case and the senior doctor feels you can see a case independently, your Employee Progress Report is updated to “I” and you are cleared to see those cases independently. We keep a running list of what the new doctors have been cleared to see so the front desk knows how to schedule them.

We work closely with you in surgery as well. Surgery training is tracked in a very similar manner and is updated weekly to the Surgery Employee Progress Report. You will observe routine surgeries, scrub in with our mentor, and then perform routine surgeries with your mentor. Once your mentor feels you can perform that surgery independently, your Surgery Employee Progress Report will be updated and you’ll be clear to perform these surgeries independently. With the number of doctors we always have on staff, a senior doctor is always available if you need help. We won’t ever leave you alone. We work closely with the SPCA and have pets come in weekly to be spayed and neutered, so we can give our interns and externs a lot of surgical exposure.

We will look at the schedule for the day and see what the doctors have scheduled both from a surgical and appointment standpoint and guide the training accordingly. You may have 2 or 3 doctors you are involved with in any given day. There are no concrete rules for this. This program is very good at identifying what you need and tailoring the training to help you become successful.

Once you start seeing appointments you would usually see appointments in the morning, surgery in the afternoon, you get an hour lunch and then back to appointments. As you can see your mentorship and progress are part of our culture and are practiced daily.

This will differ as when you do your rotation to each clinic. You may spend 6 months at one of our busier clinics and 3 months at the other 2. All of our senior doctors are excellent teachers, and you will receive great experience and mentorship at all of our clinics. Newer doctors are scheduled 30-minute appointments and after 6 months usually can see 20-minute appointments if they are ready. You will be single booked during appointment time. As a new doctor you could be booked a full day but that is not usually the case. If we have surgeries we want you to observe or be involved in, you will be marked out for those surgeries. This happens quite a bit. Between the 3 clinics you will get to see and be involved and learn many different surgeries.

There is not a formal application process. If you let us know you are interested and we have an opening we will work with you to get you in our program.

Some of this is dependent on your school but our programs are typically 2-4 weeks.

You will work with multiple doctors but there will be one that will be responsible for completing your paperwork. We have busy practices with much to see, we do not want to limit the cases and surgeries you are involved in by having you with a single doctor.

​This will depend on a lot of different things. It will depend on your skill set, your level of interest, how willing you are to work, and how coachable you are. We want you to have a great experience here!

​Scrubs or business casual.

​Your stethoscope and any paperwork that you have been given by your school for us. Most paperwork is sent to us electronically.

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