Veterinary Career Center

Duke Animal Hospital is a privately owned animal hospital located in the Lakeview/Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. We have over 16,000 patients in our active care.  We have 6 full-time veterinarians and a large support staff.  We are looking to add more full-time and/or part-time associates because we have a very busy and always growing hospital.  New graduates welcome.  Our clients are dedicated to their pets and motivated to seek high quality care.  We treat primarily dogs and cats and we also treat exotic pets (birds, small mammals, reptiles, ferrets, rabbits, rodents, some amphibians).   Experience in exotic animal medicine is not required as we provide close one-on-one mentorship in all areas including exotic pet medicine.

Our hours are Monday through Saturday 7 am to 7 pm.  We close all major holidays and the eve of most holidays.  We work in two teams that rotate three 12 hour shifts per week (week one work schedule is Monday, Friday, Saturday; week 2 work schedule is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).  This schedule leaves staff with Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday off on week one and Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off on week two.  This schedule provides excellent work/life balance for everyone.  In terms of medical support, we have the “best of both worlds” because there are two 24-hour critical care centers in close proximity.  We can keep and treat our own emergency and surgical cases but we also have the option of referring cases as needed and have great specialty support. 

We offer wellness care, illness care and emergency services.  We routinely performing surgeries such as spay, neuter, mass removal, laparotomy, splenectomy, enucleation, cystotomy, etc.  We have a ForceTriad surgical unit with the Ligasure sealing/dividing instruments as well as a smoke evacuator and hand-controlled blended Ligasure electrocautery.  We have an advanced dental suite with two tables, two VetPro 1000 hand piece units and Progeny digital dental radiography.  We take full mouth radiographs and perform advanced dental procedures including creating gingival flaps, alveolar bone removal, root sectioning, alveoloplasty and gingival releasing for closure.   We have a Class IV Companion laser unit which we use for arthritis, wound management, and other conditions.  We have an ultrasound unit with real time Oncura sonographer support.  This is a great learning environment for ultrasound.  We generally do two or three ultrasounds a week, often more.  We also have the ability to do GlobalFast ultrasounds and sonographer guided echocardiograms.

Check out our website at http://www.dukeanimalhospital.com, our Facebook and Instagram pages, and Yelp/Google to see photos, videos, client reviews and more information about our hospital. 

 About Duke Animal Hospital