As stated by another reviewer, there is a lot of content both in the online coursework AND in textbooks. I can't speak for other lines of study, but for the Veterinary Technician course it was absolutely ridiculous. seriously?! It’s a video! Why should I have to arrange a four-hour round trip to my large animal site again just to get three 30-second videos? They are so AVMA set, that they have absolutely zero toom for compromise or alternatives, especially during a global pandemic, where every school in the country has had to bend rules." When doing my large animal skills, I misplaced three tiny videos of me doing things to a goat. Perform necropsy procedure? We don’t even do that at a normal small animal practice. Some of the small animal skills are weird, too. A lot of stuff that you would never do in a normal circumstance, but they required it because it’s “AVMA” required. The vet who finally agreed to help was two hours away, and also voiced to the school that she hated the skills we have to perform. I called about every clinic in southern New England for months, and was rejected several times. I live in an area where farming and agriculture isn’t big, so trying to find a large animal site was a nightmare. I went through so many hoops trying to get my second externship in order. ![]() The only thing that makes this review negative, is the externship process. You definitely get your money’s worth of material. This is so messed up! They treat their students like wallets and take full advantage and bully you into accepting their backwards despicable practices. What kind of “college” doesn’t even insure that it’s even POSSIBLE to complete REQUIRED course work. For most it’s impossible! They can’t even get their stories straight different staff members will say completely different things there’s no consistency and often times the response you get is “I don’t know.”They literally try to make it impossible for you to graduate and they will always blame the AVMA which is the veterinary accrediting body. Such an inane rule how are you supposed to complete your externship under these conditions. Then I was trying to process the paperwork and then they told me I couldn’t do that “share skills” between sites. Anyways she approved of me to do 2 partially completed skills at another site as long as I have 2 different initials and signatures. BTW they don’t check in on you or communicate with them you actually have to email them through the school they don’t have a personal email. I was approved by my evaluator “essentially a person who checks off all your skills and approves” them. I recently finished at that site and I was told by the manager that “nine of those skills can’t be done here and haven’t been done in general practice for years” So I had to find a site YET AGAIN to finish my internship because I couldn’t complete it at the first site. I had to start all over again and it took a few months to find and get started at a new site. So none of the 200+ hours I completed counted. Penn Foster blamed me for being let go and said it was all my fault and that I can’t be a vet tech and “have emotions”. I was told by the practice manager that it was “wrong for the her to be paid for her time to help me as an intern”. I was let go because I was upset and complained that the veterinarian was cruel. When I worked for my first site the veterinarian was cruel and mean and yelled at me on my second day of being a surgery intern and blamed me for “not responding when an animal could of died” when it is the responsibility of a vet not an intern to be able to take care in an emergency. They even force you to do “grief counseling” should never ever be done by an intern. Good luck finding places that do orogastric intubation or let you use cat bags which by the way are considered outdated and cruel now in the veterinary field. So if they don’t do things that are on your list of skills which is probably many (especially if you work for a GP your completely screwed). You have to find your own internship Penn Foster does not partner with the site so you are 100% on your own. ![]() ![]() I am a veterinary technician student going on 2 years in the program and am still working on the same internship that I was working on 8 months ago. So by the time you find out how awful the program is you’re already too deep to turn back. The most terrible part is the externship! By the time you get to the second externship you HAVE to complete your first two semesters. They do not care about their students at all! I can handle working on my own (there are no teachers you learn from the textbook and online material only) but that is actually not the most terrible part. This back ally dumpster of a school is probably one of if the not the worst institutions of higher learning in the United States. "Penn Foster is literally the worst just when you think they can’t stoop any lower they do.
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