Highlights:

• Get to know the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand up-close and personal
• Earn 55 veterinary hours
• Veterinarian-led live experiences with dogs, cats, and elephants in Thailand on weekday evenings
• Weekend conferences expose you to the wide world of veterinary medicine, including avian, exotic, zoo, wildlife, research, and conservation medicine
• Learn animal rescue, rehabilitation, conservation, and veterinary medicine from expert veterinarians
• Live demonstrations with elephants, big cats, toucans, sloths, crocodiles, raptors, and more
• Help fund important conservation projects on three different continents

What is it?

This is a virtual internship where you can join vets in Thailand, South Africa, Costa Rica, and Belize for 3 weeks to learn all about their veterinary work through immersive teaching and up-close shadowing. Join our most popular virtual program for a chance to make a personal connection with your teaching vet, build cross-cultural skills, and gain internship experience and vet shadowing hours… from home!

Live Internship in Thailand on Weekdays

There are over 2,000 animals that need constant care and support at Elephant Nature Park. Usually, a lot of this work is done by foreign volunteers, but there are many fewer volunteers than normal at this time.

Our Thai veterinary team is headed in to help and bring you along to learn! They will also be visiting nearby cat and dog rescues, shelters, and clinics wherever they are needed. Your tuition directly funds the veterinary care we will be providing.

Week 1: Discovering dogs in Thailand

Week 2: Caring for cats in Thailand

Week 3: Exploring elephants in Thailand

Please note: the order of the weeks may change, but these 3 themes will be covered. Other animals in need might show up!

Veterinary Conferences Around the World on Weekends

Every Saturday and Sunday, you’ll meet a new expert veterinarian from one of our partner projects in Costa Rica, Belize, South Africa, Australia, and the USA who will introduce you to a new area of veterinary medicine while sharing their passion and knowledge with you.

Conferences include:

• Live facility tours and an introduction to the project
• Live demonstrations of training and medical techniques
• Live discussions
• Recorded on-site content to showcase particular cases (you’ll debrief these live in a Q&A)
• Supplementary learning materials on the animals and cases you’ll explore
• Breaks from live video calls so you can stand up, move around, eat, etc

Conferences will be recorded in full for anyone who misses all or part of them.