If you are looking for hands-on African vet experience and need to fulfill a portion of your Extra Mural Study (EMS) requirements, or if you’re looking for further experience with exotic animals, Vets Go Wild has the perfect animal care courses for you. These feature the opportunity to work with wildlife vets in South Africa.
This course is limited to pre-vets, veterinary medicine students, nurses, techs, and qualified vets and vet nurses. You will be based at the Amakhala Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Amakhala is home to the founder of Vets Go Wild and world-renowned vet Dr. William Fowlds, who you will work alongside while in South Africa.
The program fee includes all field activities, lectures, community visits, day trips, accommodation, transfers, and meals.
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I loved every minute of this trip! The people were so welcoming and they helped me build confidence in myself. I hope to apply everything that I learned into my own work and I hope one day I will be able to come back and expand my knowledge of wildlife veterinary medicine.
Excellent service , good presentation, competent in their areas of operation, in-depth learning and well articulated training , well accommodating and team work make the environment conducive for all.
Hands down the best program I could have chosen, the Vets Go Wild course was an incredible experience!! The veterinarians we worked with where amazing teachers and you really do get a lot of hands on experience. The work they do there is beautiful they are an amazing team, I specially loved how they work to preserve de rhinos that was probably one of my top memories. If I could do it all over again I definitely would!!
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The 2 and a half weeks in South Africa were incredible. We were hands on and so involved with the procedures that were taking place every day. We worked on so many different species and I learnt so much. I am now so much more confident in my clinical ability.
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