Intern will learn about the diagnostics and instruments commonly used in a veterinary laboratory specializing in Alaskan marine mammals, birds and fish. Skills and procedures learned will include: blood analysis, urine and fecal analysis, total and fecal coliform water quality analysis, sample collection during animal exams or necropsy, and maintaining veterinary records and sample inventory.
Interns will gain experience in the rescue and rehabilitation effort of Alaska’s stranded wild marine mammals and birds. In addition to learning animal restraint and husbandry skills, interns are expected to work with the public in-person while out in the field and over the phone in a professional and courteous manner.
The Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Wildlife Health Laboratory are accepting applications for a residency position in free-ranging wildlife health, beginning August 1, 2022.
Position available for residency training in anatomic pathology, with wildlife emphasis beginning July 1, 2022. This intensive, comprehensive, 3-year residency training program is designed to meet the eligibility requirements for the certifying examination of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP).
The Arizona Game and Fish Department offers paid internship opportunities to current students, graduate and undergraduate. Recent (within the past year) graduates are also eligible to apply.
The Rocky Mountain Wildlife Veterinary Externship is a collaborative program for 4th-year veterinary students offered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the National Park Service, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
The Caldwell Zoo (Tyler, TX) Veterinary Department is seeking a highly motivated, hard-working, professional minded student or recent college graduate interested in gaining on-the-job experience in wildlife/zoo medicine.
South Dakota State University, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks, and Washington State University are recruiting a motivated M.S. student to explore the role of chronic shedders of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in respiratory disease persistence and transmission, and annual lamb recruitment in bighorn sheep.
The University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources is seeking a Ph.D.-level graduate student to conduct research on community disease ecology in an amphibian system
A FREE Zoom webinar offered through the Wildlife Disease Association and The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine!
ACZM offers new board certification in Wildlife Population Health 
WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection 
Tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) previously not found in the Pacific Northwest has been detected in Washington state’s coyotes 
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Updates- May 2026 
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) in the U.S.: Current Updates July 2026 
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Current Updates July 2026 
“Foundations of Wildlife Chemical Capture Course” now available 
Non Human Primate COVID-19 Information Hub 
Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) Annual Conference 2026: Chicago, Illinois July 26-31, 2026 
Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease Conference 2026 
Wildlife Disease Association 70th Annual International Conference 2022 
Virtual 36th Annual Wildlife & Exotic Animal Symposium hosted by the students of WAAM & AEMC at UC Davis 
Wildlife Disease Association/European Wildlife Disease Association Joint Virtual Conference 2021 Designed by WPZOOM
