Internship Program
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Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital's veterinary internship program was established in 1986. The practice currently offers 7 hospital and 5 ambulatory internshps annually. These internships are intended to provide each intern with the foundation to pursue a residency program or enter private practice. Interns have been placed in residency programs for surgery, internal medicine, anesthesiology, theriogenology, radiology and ophthalmology. Through the years, interns have gone on to successful careers in general ambulatory practice, surgery, anesthesia, and internal medicine in both academia and private practice. All interns are encouraged to do a research project and many have presented papers at AAEP and other national meetings in subsequent years. The hospital interns rotate through the surgery, medicine, and anesthesia services. Primary responsibilities will include diagnostics and care of hospital patients, emergency duty, anesthesia, radiology, and assisting with lameness exams, medicine procedures and surgery. The ambulatory interns work primarily with the five most senior ambulatory clinicians, the two theriogenologists and two veterinary podiatrists. The interns will assist and observe routine reproductive work, neonatal and foal evaluation and medicine, basic lameness exams, radiology, purchase exams, and sales work. They will also rotate on emergency duty. In the off-season (July through December) ambulatory interns have brief hospital rotations. Internships are salaried positions, with benefits including health insurance, professional liability insurance, 1 week paid vacation, and expenses paid for one approved veterinary conference. For specific details on salary, benefits, and additional information, please see our internship program listing posted in Avenues on the American Association of Equine Practitioners website www.aaep.org. Internships are for one year and run from June to June. Applications are accepted in the fall of each year. Application deadline for the 2010-2011 internship is November 1, 2009. Notification of acceptance is in early December. To apply for a Hospital or Ambulatory internship position, please send a curriculum vitae, letter of intent, your veterinary school transcripts and 3 letters of reference to Starlee Smith at ssmith@roodandriddle.com. If you have any questions regarding this program, please direct your inquiry to Starlee Smith at ssmith@roodandriddle.com. |
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