Get hands on veterinary experience at Wild Sun Rescue Center in Cabuya, Costa Rica. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to rehabilitating and releasing sick and injured wildlife as well as reintroducing locally extinct species to the ecosystem. We offer a veterinary externship that focuses on wildlife and conservation medicine.

Successful applicants will receive training and lectures from our diversely qualified staff which includes primatologists, zoologists, biologists and wildlife veterinarians. Students will leave with a deeper knowledge on conservation medicine, while gaining necessary clinical and medical experience. Externs assist in surgeries, necropsies, administering fluids and medications as well as performing husbandry with several species of primates, reptiles, birds and other small mammals. 

We have specialized tracks for pre-vet and gap-year students, 1st & 2nd year vet students and 3rd & 4th year vet students. For 3rd and 4th year vet students, this externship can count towards your rotation. 

We provide poolside shared deluxe rooms for each extern, for the entirety of their month long stay. We also provide three meals day, cooked by our house chef and weekly excursions to enjoy more of costa rica.

 For more information visit our website: https://www.wildsunrescue.org/externship