Explore CVP During Your Fourth Year at LMU

When you discover your people, everything just clicks. It’s why we think your career and our community go hand-in-paw.

What you can expect from CVP

Community Veterinary Partners’ (CVP) mission is to bring joy to families by providing the best care possible to the pets they love. A growing community of animal hospitals, CVP empowers our veterinary professionals by providing unwavering support services that allows them to get back to what they love doing the most – caring for pets. Offering a fast-paced, exciting and true entrepreneurial work environment, CVP is a tight-knit community of veterinary professionals delivering unparalleled patient and client care in atmospheres of uncompromising compassion. Let us help grow your career by experiencing firsthand what it’s like to be part of our growing family of pet people people!

we offer a $2000 housing honorarium and housing location assistance.

grow your career after graduation with available positions throughout our growing family of more than 140 hospitals.

develop relationships with lifelong mentors who can help you grow and explore your career options.

CVP Offers Affiliate Sites with the Following Areas of Interest:

  • Clinical Trial Rotation at our Quakertown location
  • Equine Rotation at our Quakertown location
  • Mixed Animal Rotation at our Quakertown location
  • Small Animal General Practice
  • Small Animal General Practice including exposure to Avian/Exotics/Wildlife
  • Coyne Veterinary Center: Portage, IL, Crown Point, IN, St John, IN
  • Allentown Animal Clinic – Allentown, PA
  • Great Falls Animal Hospital – Great Falls, VA
  • LaVale Veterinary Hospital – Cumberland, MD
  • Park Veterinary Hospital and Urgent Care, Durham, NC
  • Paradise Animal Hospital – Catonsville, MD
  • Cleveland Park Animal Hospital: Simpsonville, SC and Greenville, SC
  • Village Animal Clinic – North Palm Beach, FL
  • Greenfields Veterinary Associates – Mantua, NJ
  • Wyomissing Animal Hospital – Wyomissing, PA
  • Horsham Veterinary Hospital – Horsham, PA
  • American Animal Hospital – Randolph, NJ
  • Maywood Veterinary Clinic – Maywood, NJ
  • Wright Veterinary Medical Center – Bethlehem, PA
  • Rocky Point Animal Hospital – Long Island, NY
  • Eastside Animal Hospital – Jeffersonville, IN
  • Animal Care Centers – Blue Ash, Forrest Park, Fairfield, OH
  • Animal Hospital of Dauphin County – Hershey, PA
  • Chippens Hill Veterinary Hospital – Chippens Hill, CT
  • Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital – Brentwood, NH
  • Quakertown Veterinary Clinic – Quakertown, PA
    • Small Animal
      • Equine
      • LA Mixed
      • Small Animal/Clinical Trials

Other CVP Hospitals may be available for student proposed electives. Please contact Dr. Laura Strong if you are interested in a CVP location that does not appear on this list.

hear from others like you

"The CVP Student Colleague Program was different from others I had experienced. I was emotionally and financially supported by CVP and they were really connected with me the whole time. Everyone at my hospital site was very accepting and being new, regardless of being a student or not, is scary. You want to feel welcome; you don’t want to feel like you’re in the way or that you’re a burden, and I never felt that way as a CVP Student Colleague. The program was exceptional in many ways, but especially at Chippens Hill where I ..."
Dr. Amanda DeJesus, Associate Veterinarian
Dr. Amanda DeJesus, Associate VeterinarianChippens Hill Animal Hospital | Past CVP Student Colleague
"When you first graduate, there is much more pressure and stress than anyone expects. Having gained the mentor relationship during my time as a CVP Student Colleague, I felt better prepared for what to expect after graduation. It’s not just about the medicine, but about the personal and emotional support and always having access to the guidance I needed when a challenge arose. Fostering those relationships made my post-grad experience very positive."
Dr. Rachel Pound, Associate Veterinarian
Dr. Rachel Pound, Associate VeterinarianParadise Animal Hospital Past CVP Student Colleague
"I mainly used the self-guided resources available in the free Ginger app from CVP. I enjoyed all the different modules, and that the app would recommend different ones to me based on what I said I was interested in. Due to the busy schedule of being a vet student, it was nice to have something I could do to better my mental/emotional health that was quick and didn't have to be scheduled, and I’m grateful that CVP made this available to student colleagues."
Madison Ketchie
Madison KetchieCVP Student Ambassador | CVP Student Colleague
Being a CVP student ambassador, I felt like I had an advantage in the veterinary industry having had the opportunity to meet other vet students, and other CVP veterinarians and executives. It was a great way to connect with people in the industry and classmates at other vet schools as well. I think that one of the biggest things for me though, is that it helped me build confidence and reassured me that I wasn't alone in the veterinary world. People talk about how small the veterinary world is, but in reality, when you're a ..."
Dr. Casey Hagg
Dr. Casey Haggformer CVP LMU Clinical Affiliate and CVP Student Ambassador | Liverpool Animal Health Center

Meet Dr. pearson

Dr. Karen Pearson brings a lifelong commitment to the well-being of creatures, furry or otherwise, to her role as Director of University Relations.

As former lead doctor of Paradise Hospital, part of the CVP community, Dr. Pearson now mentors and guides students to reach their fullest potential. She is driven by helping students become the best version of themselves and empowering future veterinarians as they navigate their career paths.

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