In 2010, she completed a 3-year zoo residency at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in conjunction with Oklahoma City Zoo. After veterinary school, she completed a one-year small animal medicine and surgery internship at MSPCA Angell Memorial Western New England Animal Hospital, followed by 3 years working in a 24/7 referral critical care and emergency hospital in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an MS in Conservation Biology, and from Cornell University with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. Margarita Woc-Colburn is the Director of Animal Health at the Phoenix Zoo. But if there are monetary concerns and you will more likely end up going small animal do the paid internship. If you are wanting to go zoo med i would for go the paid internship for the experience so you know what you want. Again labor intensive more so than small animal. It was unforgetable and if i got another opportunity to do it again I would so long as my health would permit it. I was never able to get an internship in the zoo med department primarily due to those slots were for vet students. keepers do alot of behavioral enrichment, and kennel tech work, along with giving meds, and collecting laboratory samples such as stool/urine. The keepers do give meds which was cool to give a hippo her birth control, and I put meds in little dead mice via syringe feed for an ocelot to get tranquilzed for a dental procedure (which i got to watch).
I loved working with the big cats, hyenas, new world and old world monkeys(careful some will try and urinate on you), reptiles* not for me, lemurs, the list goes on. I did get urine all over myself when cleaning out his enclosure, memo never squeegee towards your body always away. Primarily due to needing to exercise the okapi by walking in circles with him following a branch of leaves he loved to eat. The only hoof stock I liked were the rhinos, and okapi. It was extremely labor intensive and where I lived in Texas during the summer you could easily get heat exhaustion, plenty of fluids. In my opinion working with hoof stock was not for me.
#PHOENIX ZOO INTERNSHIP LICENSE#
It's kinda how I even went towards getting my RVT/CVT license (licensed in 2 different states with of course different licensing). I did 2 zoo internships with keepers before I went to tech school. Some of the neat things I got to see/do: assist with a dental on a bob cat, watch a dental on a monkey, watch endoscopy on a penguin's trachea, watch a spay on a beaver, assist with endoscopic sex determination of several clutches of turtles, run anesthesia during an evisceration of an eye on a barred owl, help manage wound care on a red tailed hawk, provide neonatal care of about a bazillion baby squirrels, watched CT performed on a chicken, helped prep a ferret for radiation therapy, and went on a dart gun hunt through the woods for a feral great Dane. Also I got to see (and actually help with) some research projects the residents were working on. Because those patients didn't have owners the tech students were allowed more hands on with them. Mostly they deal with parrots and rabbits as far as pets go, but they also see a lot of injured wildlife, as well as patients from local zoos. I didn't intern at a zoo, but did intern with the zoo med department at a vet school.
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